# Associate Director, Finance – Sales Compensation (Data Architecture & Strategy)

**Company**: S&P Global
**Location**: London
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $104,435 to $182,604
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

This role sits at the intersection of Finance, Sales Operations, and Technology , central to how S&P Global ensures every sales commission is calculated on a clean, trusted, and fully governed data foundation.

As the primary data architect and strategic partner for Sales leadership, you will shape the infrastructure that powers commercial decisions across the division.

**Responsibilities and Impact**

- Architect and govern a centralised, SOX-compliant data platform , owning schema design, tool selection, database build-out, and ongoing maintenance , that serves as the single source of truth for all commission calculations and sales performance reporting.

- Serve as the first point of contact for sales leadership on all data-related matters , proactively detecting and resolving anomalies before they impact calculations, while designing and implementing automated reconciliation and standardised adjustment processes that ensure data integrity and audit-readiness at scale.

- Lead and develop a team of data and compensation analysts: set goals, allocate resources, and build a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.

- Translate complex commercial contracts into structured, reusable data frameworks that integrate cleanly into operational and reporting workflows.

- Partner with Business Intelligence and Systems Analytics to shape Data Warehouse architecture and ETL workflows, ensuring downstream analytics always run on validated, trusted inputs.

- Communicate and present real-time sales performance analytics and data-quality metrics to senior leadership, while translating complex data architecture into plain English for sales reps and leaders , resolving data-related questions and driving adoption of correct processes across the organisation.

**Compensation and Benefits**

The anticipated base salary range for this position is $104,435 to $182,604.

**What We Are Looking For**

- Experience: 10+ years in sales compensation, data architecture, data governance, or financial systems, including 2+ years in a people leadership role managing analytical teams.

- Database, Automation and Optimization: Hands-on experience in large-scale database design, schema development, ETL pipeline management, advanced SQL querying, database automation, and query performance optimization across complex, high-volume datasets.

- Reconciliation and Adjustments: Demonstrated proficiency in at least one scripting or automation tool , Python/Pandas, VBA, or Alteryx , to design and automate large-scale reconciliation pipelines and standardised adjustment workflows, ensuring data integrity and calculation accuracy at scale.

- Governance and Compliance: Proven experience establishing SOX-compliant data governance frameworks, including automated audit trails, validation models, and standardised adjustment protocols.

- Real-Time Reporting: Experience building and configuring real-time Power BI reports and dashboards, and presenting data-quality metrics and insights to Director-level and above stakeholders.

## Skills

### Required
- SQL
- Python
- Pandas
- VBA
- Alteryx
- Power BI
- Data Architecture
- Data Governance
- SOX compliance

### Nice to have
- Xactly
- Anaplan
- SAP Commissions
- Data Warehouse architecture
- scalable BI infrastructure

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