Global Sales Compensation Leader

S&P Global; Cary (NC); Sur place; USD 104 000 - 183 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Health benefits

Flexible downtime

Continuous learning

Retirement planning

Family-friendly perks

Résumé du poste

S&P Global is seeking a Senior Sales Compensation Leader to guide a global team in optimizing commission plans and payroll processes. You will drive complex modeling, governance, and risk controls across the compensation lifecycle, ensuring accuracy and compliance.

You will partner with Legal, HR, and Finance to resolve disputes, implement policy changes, and provide clear, data-driven recommendations to executives. This role is based in the United States with a focus on US-based processes.

Qualifications

• Experience: 7+ years in sales compensation operations, finance governance, audit, or corporate financial modeling within a complex commission-paying environment, including 2+ years in a people leadership role managing analytical teams.
• Sales Compensation Expertise: Complex plan mechanics including quotas, accelerators, thresholds, caps, splits, crediting rules, draws, guarantees, clawbacks, recoveries, SPIFFs, and executive incentive structures.
• Financial Modeling: Advanced Excel proficiency with nested logic, dynamic arrays, Power Query, variance analysis, scenario modeling, stress testing, payout forecasting.
• Risk Management and Controls: Experience identifying and mitigating commission-specific financial risks, including overpayments and data integrity issues.
• Audit and SOX/ICFR: SOX-compliant documentation, approvals, and audit-ready evidence for commission payroll processing cycles.

Responsabilités

• Lead and develop a team of compensation analysts and operations specialists, setting goals and ensuring accurate, timely resolution of plan participant queries globally.
• Build and execute scenario modeling and stress-testing to forecast total plan spend and assess impact of plan changes on budgets and targets.
• Lead final validation and sign-off on global payroll processing, including approvals for non-standard payouts and executive incentives in collaboration with Payroll, Legal, People Partners, and Compliance.
• Sign off on monthly SOX and Audit controls, performing risk evaluations and variance analyses to ensure accuracy at scale.
• Partner with Legal and People Partners to resolve compensation disputes and overrides, reviewing and approving overrides and exception requests.
• Translate complex commission formulas and payout outcomes into clear explanations for sales reps, managers, and senior leaders.

Connaissances

Sales compensation

Financial modeling

Excel

SOX/ICFR

Governance

Outils

Xactly

Varicent

Anaplan

SAP Commissions

VBA

Python/Pandas

SQL

Alteryx

Description du poste

S&P Global is seeking a Senior Sales Compensation Leader to guide a global team in optimizing commission plans and payroll processes. You will drive complex modeling, governance, and risk controls across the compensation lifecycle, ensuring accuracy and compliance.

You will partner with Legal, HR, and Finance to resolve disputes, implement policy changes, and provide clear, data-driven recommendations to executives. This role is based in the United States with a focus on US-based processes.