
Sales Compensation Analyst
Samsara
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇨🇦 Canada
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💰 CA$64,175 - CA$83,050 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
Oracle
About the role
- Administer sales variable payments, including commissions, draws, MBOs, and SPIFFs in accordance with the monthly commission process and company policies for the commissionable employees in assigned sales teams who require a moderate level of plan administration complexity.
- Understand and apply the commission plan consistently, ensuring commission calculations comply with policies and manage exception requests.
- Maintain sales comp plan documents templates and execute distribution, ensuring accurate and timely to each employee on an incentive plan.
- Address commissions inquiries, adjustments and corrections in a timely manner, providing a positive employee experience when resolving.
- Validate accrual and payments results for assigned segments. Provide business drivers for fluctuations.
- Provide insights on business drivers of commissions result variances.
- Document and maintain business processes for monthly/quarterly close, commission accounting tasks, and audits.
- Support commission plan participant setup, including new hires, terminations, and in-year and/or year-over-year change and complete relevant audit controls for SOX compliance.
- Perform User Acceptance Testing for new and/or modified configuration to execute sales comp plan changes in the sales incentive administration tool.
- Identifying and contribute to process improvements to scale Sales Compensation operations with Samsara’s growth.
- Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices.
Requirements
- 5+ years in a Sales Compensation role; experience at a high-growth technology company or company with 500+ employees on a commission is a plus.
- Bachelor Degree required; preferably in Finance, Economics, or related field.
- Strong communication (written and verbal), organizational, analytical and problem-solving skills; advanced skills in MS Excel and/or Google Sheets.
- Experience in automated sales commissions systems and their set-up and operation (e.g. Xactly, SAP, Anaplan, Oracle EIM, etc.)
- Demonstrated success in a collaborative, fast-paced environment, proven attention to detail, good business acumen and awareness of business trends, high degree of motivation, responsibility, and flexibility.
Benefits
- Full time employees receive a competitive total compensation package along with employee-led remote and flexible working, health benefits, and much, much more.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
sales compensation administrationcommission calculationsaccrual validationcommission accountingprocess documentationUser Acceptance Testingprocess improvementsdata analysisfinancial analysisproblem-solving
Soft skills
communicationorganizationalanalyticalattention to detailbusiness acumenmotivationresponsibilityflexibilitycollaborationcustomer focus