Sales Compensation Analyst: Automation & Governance

S&P Global; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 71,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care coverage

Retirement planning

Continuing education program

Job summary

S'P Global seeks a Sales Compensation Analyst to automate complex compensation processes for the Commercial Modelling & Governance Automation function. You will translate multi-year deals, co-selling models, and overlay allocations into structured rules and data-driven insights.

Lead governance and SOX-traceable controls while architecting enterprise Power BI reporting and data health dashboards for Finance and Leadership. 5+ years of analytics experience in a multinational setting are preferred.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in sales compensation analytics, financial modelling, or commercial data governance within a multinational organisation.
• Advanced SQL proficiency for data modelling, validation, and complex multi-table reconciliation across ledger revenues, CRM systems, and compensation engines.
• Hands-on experience using Python/Pandas or Alteryx to build automated reconciliation workflows, variance detection models, and data pipeline scripts.
• Advanced Power BI expertise including data modelling, star schema design, complex DAX measures, and Power Query M transformations for enterprise-level reporting suites.
• Proven experience operating within SOX-compliance frameworks — designing audit-ready controls, running automated control test queries, and producing end-to-end calculation traceability documentation.

Responsibilities

• Translate and engineer complex commercial deal structures into structured algorithmic logic and standardised business rules within the compensation calculation engine.
• Model and simulate the financial impact of proposed changes to compensation plans and crediting rules, running Python and SQL scenario analyses.
• Build and maintain automated reconciliation engines using Python, Alteryx, and SQL with variance detection models and anomaly surface mechanisms.
• Design and maintain governance control frameworks with tracking mechanisms for all manual adjustments and quarterly/annual SOX documentation.
• Architect and maintain enterprise Power BI reporting suites with real-time dashboards and variance summaries for Finance and Commercial leadership.
• Standardise operations and advise stakeholders by translating complex data logic into plain-English explanations and conducting peer reviews.

Skills

SQL

Data Modelling

Python/Pandas

Power BI

Tools

Alteryx

Job description

S'P Global seeks a Sales Compensation Analyst to automate complex compensation processes for the Commercial Modelling & Governance Automation function. You will translate multi-year deals, co-selling models, and overlay allocations into structured rules and data-driven insights.

Lead governance and SOX-traceable controls while architecting enterprise Power BI reporting and data health dashboards for Finance and Leadership. 5+ years of analytics experience in a multinational setting are preferred.