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About The Position

The Sales Compensation Analyst will own global SPIFF operations and end-to-end payee lifecycle management at S&P Global Market Intelligence. The role works across Commercial Strategy, People Operations, and Sales Finance to ensure compensation events are calculated accurately, governed rigorously, and resolved with integrity. The position supports more than 1,500 plan participants and handles complex compensation processes outside the standard monthly cycle. The analyst translates commercial campaign briefs into qualification criteria, crediting logic, and system rate tables; builds automated tracking and reconciliation processes; performs compensation calculations; and produces post-campaign ROI and spend analyses. The role also manages payee changes throughout employment, including new-hire setup, promotions, leaves of absence, terminations, and post-departure reconciliations. The position investigates high-value sales disputes and payout grievances, models the financial impact of transaction and crediting changes, and communicates calculation findings to representatives and leadership. It also supports compensation governance and audits by maintaining documentation and providing calculation extracts, system logs, approvals, and lifecycle audit trails. The role is limited to people with indefinite right to work in the United States.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience in sales compensation administration, incentive program management, or sales operations within a multinational organization.
  • Demonstrated experience designing, tracking, and executing tactical commercial incentive programs, SPIFFs, and accelerator campaigns with budget controls and audit documentation.
  • Experience managing payee lifecycle mechanics, including quota proration, draw and guarantee accounting, effective-dated crediting, leave-of-absence adjustments, and final offboarding commission calculations.
  • Advanced SQL proficiency for querying multi-table databases, HRIS tables, and transaction ledgers.
  • Hands-on experience with at least one automation or reconciliation tool: Python/Pandas, Alteryx, or Excel/VBA.
  • Practical administration experience with at least one enterprise incentive platform: Varicent, Xactly, Anaplan, or SAP Commissions.
  • Experience with at least one HRIS platform, including Workday.
  • Indefinite right to work in the United States.

Nice To Haves

  • Experience building automated SPIFF tracking engines or reconciliation routines integrating HRIS data with enterprise compensation systems in real time.
  • Experience conducting post-campaign ROI analytics and spend assessments using Power BI and presenting commercial velocity and incentive-effectiveness insights to sales leadership.
  • Experience conducting technical, evidence-based financial investigations into high-value sales disputes, contested crediting splits, and payout grievances, including modeling the net financial impact of deal cancellations, de-bookings, and retroactive adjustments.
  • Experience compiling audit-ready exception packages and SOX documentation, including calculation extracts, system logs, approval records, and payee lifecycle audit trails.
  • Experience partnering with Legal and People Partners on sensitive executive compensation escalations and unusual dispute-resolution scenarios.
  • Experience explaining complex commission calculations, SPIFF qualification criteria, and lifecycle adjustments clearly to sales representatives and commercial leadership.
  • Experience supporting compensation continuity during organizational changes, including corporate transactions, spinoffs, or workforce reductions.

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end SPIFF operations, translating commercial campaign briefs into qualification criteria, crediting logic, and system rate tables.
  • Build automated tracking engines using SQL, Python, or Alteryx to monitor attainment and prevent duplicate claims, eligibility mismatches, and off-policy spending.
  • Execute SPIFF calculations, deliver post-campaign ROI analytics and spend assessments in Power BI, and archive eligibility criteria, budget approvals, and supporting documentation for audits.
  • Manage active payee lifecycle workflows, including system setup, prorated quota assignments, draw and guarantee schedules, and ramping accelerators for new hires.
  • Model and execute effective-dated target adjustments and split-crediting rules for promotions and role changes.
  • Calculate quota relief, crediting freezes, and temporary account coverage allocations for leaves of absence in line with regional labor policies and commercial guidelines.
  • Calculate final commission settlements, accelerated vesting, trailing pipeline revenue, and exit reconciliation packages for terminations.
  • Manage post-departure clawback reconciliations.
  • Build script-based routines linking HRIS platforms, including Workday, with compensation engines to identify personnel changes, effective-date discrepancies, and reporting-line anomalies before payroll processing.
  • Lead evidence-based technical investigations into sales disputes, contested crediting splits, and payout grievances.
  • Model the net financial impact of deal cancellations, de-bookings, retroactive invoicing revisions, and clawback schedules.
  • Prepare objective, data-backed recalculation findings with step-by-step explanations for commercial representatives and sales leadership.
  • Partner with Legal and People Partners on sensitive executive escalations requiring scenario modeling.
  • Partner with Governance and Compliance to operationalize compensation policies.
  • Compile audit-ready exception packages for manual overrides, custom draws, departure payouts, and non-standard SPIFF rewards.
  • Provide calculation extracts, system logs, approval documentation, and payee lifecycle audit trails for internal and external SOX testing.
  • Support compensation continuity during organizational changes such as corporate transactions, spinoffs, or workforce reductions by mapping affected payee structures and ensuring accurate lifecycle adjustments.

Benefits

  • Health care coverage for physical and mental wellness.
  • Generous time off.
  • Career learning resources and opportunities to develop new skills.
  • Competitive pay and retirement planning.
  • Continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution.
  • Financial wellness programs.
  • Family-oriented benefits and perks.
  • Retail discounts.
  • Referral incentive awards.
  • Annual incentive plan eligibility.
  • Additional S&P Global benefits.

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