Sales Compensation Analyst

Job Details
We are seeking an Analyst to join our International Incentive Compensation team in Hyderabad. This position will play a key role in the sales commission processing in our monthly commission close cycle. You will be responsible for the production of audits, participate in data quality reviews and provide support in reporting data. This role will be fully engaged with global Sales Compensation teams in America, Europe and Asia, and it's also an outstanding opportunity to collaborate extensively with the wider global Incentive Compensation functions.

Having attention to detail with an analytical focus will be key to success and being willing to roll up your sleeves to investigate issues and suggest process improvements. The ideal candidate will be self-motivated and detail-oriented, with demonstrated analytical and problem solving skills. This individual must be comfortable and capable working outside the data limitations of Excel for producing reports, as well as aggregating and transforming data and also having compensation experience and compensation system knowledge would be great.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the production and completion of the commissions close audits with a high level of accuracy.
• Run necessary audit reports and reviews, and take required actions.
• Support from simple report generation to complex analysis builds from multiple sources.
• Participate in processes and audit improvements, documentations and procedures in relation to the close cycle activities.
• Conduct ad-hoc analyses and execute assigned projects as needed.
• Be the trusted partner for all upstream and downstream business functions.

Required Skills/Experience

• 4+ years of relevant experience, ideally within a SaaS company.
• Strong problem solving, analytical and superior critical thinking skills
• Communicates effectively across functional groups and has ability to "bring teams together" to drive effective issue resolution
• Detail and process-oriented
• Is not afraid to dive in, learn quickly and process improvement ideas
• Responsive to tight deadlines and the ability to prioritize appropriately
• Ability to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
• Experience in automated sales commissions systems and their set-up and operation is a plus (e.g. Xactly, SPIFF ICM, Callidus, Oracle EIM, etc.)
• Advanced skills in MS Excel: Model building, use of advanced formulas and arrays, pivot tables, data manipulation, VBA
• Other technical skills (i.e. SQL, Python) a plus

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