Senior Sales Compensation Analyst (Temporary)

Overview

This is a temporary assignment (up to 6 months) supporting the HR Compensation team as a Senior Sales Compensation Analyst. The role is remote.

The Senior Sales Compensation Analyst administers, analyzes, and continuously improves sales incentive compensation programs. The position partners with Compensation, Sales, HR, Payroll, Finance, and business leadership to ensure incentive plans are administered accurately, efficiently, and aligned to business objectives.

In addition to sales compensation administration and analytics, the role emphasizes process improvement, automation, and technology enablement to reduce manual work and strengthen system integrations and controls.

Responsibilities

Sales Compensation Administration

• Support end-to-end administration of sales incentive compensation programs, including plan setup, participant eligibility, target incentives, KPI/measure configuration, performance calculations, payout processing, and reconciliation.
• Perform quarterly, semiannual, annual, and other periodic sales incentive calculations and validate results prior to payment.
• Review sales performance and compensation data for accuracy, completeness, and consistency across source systems.
• Research and resolve sales compensation questions, calculation discrepancies, data issues, and employee or management inquiries.
• Support administration of plan changes and employee events affecting incentive compensation (new hires, transfers, promotions, terminations, leaves of absence, guarantees, adjustments, and other relevant events).
• Prepare and distribute incentive statements, reports, payout files, and management review materials.
• Maintain documentation of plan rules, calculation methodologies, business processes, and administrative procedures.
• Support plan audits and maintain appropriate controls to ensure incentive payments are accurate and consistent with approved plan provisions.

Systems Platform Integration and Automation

• Serve as a key functional resource for sales compensation technology and administration platforms.
• Support implementation, configuration, testing, integration, and ongoing optimization of sales incentive compensation and related sales administration platforms.
• Partner with HRIS, IT, Sales Operations, Finance, and Payroll to integrate data across CRM, HRIS/HCM, payroll, ERP, sales performance management, and incentive compensation platforms.
• Identify manual, repetitive, or high-risk administrative processes and develop automated or technology-enabled solutions.
• Develop and maintain automated workflows, calculation tools, reporting solutions, data validation routines, and reconciliation processes.
• Assist with requirements gathering, process mapping, data mapping, system configuration, user acceptance testing (UAT), parallel testing, implementation, and post-launch support for new systems or enhancements.
• Evaluate current processes and recommend opportunities to simplify administration, reduce manual intervention, improve data quality, and increase scalability.
• Develop controls and exception reporting to proactively identify data, calculation, or integration issues.
• Help transition spreadsheet-based or manually intensive processes into sustainable automated solutions when appropriate.

Analytics and Reporting

• Analyze incentive compensation results, attainment, payout trends, plan effectiveness, and cost.
• Develop recurring dashboards and reporting for Compensation, Sales, Finance, and business leadership.
• Perform data reconciliations across sales, financial, HR, and payroll systems.
• Conduct ad hoc analyses related to sales performance, incentive design, payout modeling, and plan changes.
• Identify trends, anomalies, and potential risks within sales compensation data and communicate findings to stakeholders.
• Support modeling and testing of proposed incentive plan changes and payout scenarios.

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Partner with Sales Operations, HR, Payroll, HRIS, IT, and business leaders to ensure incentive programs are administered effectively.
• Translate business requirements and incentive plan provisions into clear system and calculation requirements.
• Coordinate with technical teams and external vendors during platform implementations, enhancements, integrations, and troubleshooting.
• Provide guidance to managers and employees regarding incentive plan administration and calculation methodology.
• Support annual sales incentive plan design and implementation activities.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Finance, Business, Accounting, Information Systems, Analytics, or a related field.
• At least five years of experience in sales compensation, incentive compensation, sales operations, compensation analytics, or a related field.
• Hands-on experience administering sales incentive compensation programs with multiple performance measures and payout methodologies.
• Advanced Excel skills, including complex formulas, lookups, data validation, reconciliation, and large dataset analysis.
• Experience working with sales administration, incentive compensation, CRM, HRIS and HCM, ERP, or similar enterprise platforms.
• Demonstrated experience improving or automating administrative processes.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to reconcile data across multiple systems and identify root causes of discrepancies.
• Experience translating business requirements into system, reporting, or process requirements.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to manage time-sensitive compensation processes with a high degree of accuracy.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across Compensation, Sales, Finance, HR, Payroll, and technology teams.

Preferred

• Experience implementing, integrating, configuring, or supporting a Sales Performance Management (SPM) or Incentive Compensation Management (ICM) platform.
• Experience with platforms such as Varicent, Xactly, CaptivateIQ, Forma.ai, SAP SuccessFactors Incentive Management, Oracle Incentive Compensation, or similar solutions.
• Experience with CRM platforms such as Salesforce and HRIS/HCM, or payroll platforms such as UKG, Workday, SAP, or similar systems.
• Experience with workflow and automation technologies such as Power Automate, VBA and macros, SQL, Python, robotic process automation (RPA), or comparable solutions.
• Experience with reporting and visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or similar platforms.
• Experience participating in system implementations, including requirements gathering, data mapping, UAT, parallel testing, implementation, and post-production support.
• Experience supporting complex sales organizations with multiple business units, sales channels, incentive plans, and performance measures.

Compensation & Benefits

Recruiting Range

• $90,000—$120,000 USD

Benefits Offered Full-Time Employees

• No-cost employee premiums for you and your eligible dependents for competitive medical, dental, vision and prescription benefits.
• Auto enrollment with immediate vesting of competitive company matching contributions in a 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with several investment options.
• Generous Paid Time Off program that includes company holidays and a combined bank of paid sick and vacation time.
• Performance based Short-Term Incentives (varies by role).
• Access to confidential mental health resources to help you and your loved ones improve your quality of life. Personal fitness goal incentives.
• Family orientated benefits such as paid parental leave and support for families raising children with learning, social, behavioral challenges, or developmental disabilities.
• Group Rate Life and Disability Insurance.

Benefits Offered Temporary/Contractors

• Eligible for the relevant benefit programs offered through partner agencies.

Location

Remote