Commissions Analyst

The Trade Desk • Irvine, CA

7h • Onsite

About The Position

The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world’s leading independent platform for digital advertising. Our technology helps advertisers reach the right audiences across the open internet. Advertising powers the content people love. By making it more transparent, effective, and responsible, we help support trusted journalism, quality entertainment, and creators worldwide. The world’s brands and agencies rely on us to reach their customers and grow their businesses responsibly. The scale of our platform brings unique technical challenges — from processing massive datasets in real time to building systems that operate reliably on a global scale. When you work here, your impact is worldwide. We welcome diverse perspectives, encourage curiosity, and build teams that learn from one another. If you’re driven to solve meaningful challenges, we’d love to meet you.

Requirements

• 2-4 years of incentive compensation experience desired
• BS/BA in Business, Finance or Accounting
• Advanced Excel Skills
• Database & query experience desired – SQL
• Must possess excellent problem solving skills
• Outstanding communication, listening and interpersonal skills required
• Self-motivated and driven individual
• Ability to work in a high performance, fast-paced team environment.
• Ability to prioritize and work well under pressure with a sense of urgency while remaining focused and maintaining accuracy.
• Ability to adapt to change and analyze and identify opportunities to increase effectiveness in services provided to clients.
• The sometimes uncommon ability to detach emotionally from compensation data and compensation arrangements.
• Extremely high personal and professional integrity.
• Effective at building strong working relationships at all levels of the organization in a fast-paced environment.
• Knowledge of accounting principles and SOX controls.

Nice To Haves

• Anaplan Skills are a plus

Responsibilities

• Develop a deep understanding of current compensation practices and philosophy behind the Company’s various compensation plans.
• Assume administrative responsibility for the Sales compensation plans.
• Ensure reporting and payments related to commissions are completed in a timely manner and with appropriate documentation.
• Serve as the key contact to explain components of commissions to team members who escalate questions.
• Thoroughly understand commission and bonus plans to ensure Commission and Bonus payments are accurate and in compliance.
• Support the overall sales commissions process, which includes but is not limited to working with Sales teams in configuring plans in commissions system, rolling out commission plan documents, maintaining the commissions system to ensure that all data required (i.e. commission rates, quotas, revenue, crediting rules) for all plan participants are accurate.
• Responsible for monthly commission, bonus accruals and other month end close tasks.
• Interface with sales management, sales operations and billing teams to review and analyze revenue data to ensure sales reps are accurately credited for sales transactions.
• Support audit deliverables related to commissions payouts and provide assistance related to SOX compliance testing of sales commissions processes.
• Participate as required, in developing and delivering training materials on commission policies, processes and systems to sales teams.
• Actively participate in User Acceptance Testing activities associated with new or modified system implementations to ensure that systems are properly configured when adjustments are made to current commissions plans or new commissions plans are implemented.
• Research and Resolve any commission payout disputes and process any payout adjustment requests, recalculate commissions, validate for accuracy.

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents
• Retirement benefits such as a 401k plan and company match
• Short and long-term disability coverage
• Basic life insurance
• Well-being benefits
• Reimbursement for certain tuition expenses
• Parental leave
• Sick time of 1 hour per 30 hours worked
• Vacation time for full-time employees up to 120 hours thru the first year and 160 hours thereafter
• Around 13 paid holidays per year
• Employees can also purchase The Trade Desk stock at a discount through The Trade Desk’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Competitive benefits package

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level