# Sales Compensation Analyst (Compensation & Payroll Operations)

**Company**: S&P Global
**Location**: Penang-Jalan, MYS
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

The Sales Compensation Analyst (Compensation & Payroll Operations) is a critical technical and operational position within the global Sales Compensation team.

You will join the global Sales Compensation team , a high-impact, technically sophisticated group at the operational heart of S&P Global's commercial engine. Spanning time zones and geographies, we combine enterprise system precision with financial rigor to ensure 1,500+ salespeople worldwide are paid accurately and on time, every single cycle.

**Responsibilities and Impact:**

- Drive end-to-end commission calculation cycles for 1,500+ global payees across all commercial business units , delivering 100% mathematically precise, on-time payroll files to regional Finance and Payroll teams across the US, EMEA, and APAC.

- Administer and configure the enterprise Xactly platform (Incent, Connect & Analytics) , owning crediting rule setup, tiered accelerator matrices, split-crediting algorithms, batch ETL pipeline monitoring, and participant security profiles that directly reflect published annual compensation plans.

- Execute the full payee lifecycle , from configuring new hire profiles and quota ramp models, to implementing mid-period role transitions, LOA credit adjustments, and producing audit-ready departure settlement calculations.

- Build and optimize advanced SQL queries and Python/Alteryx automation scripts to perform high-volume ledger-to-payout reconciliations, pre-payroll sanity checks, distribution curve analyses, and root-cause remediation of calculation anomalies before file delivery.

- Lead annual platform readiness activities , authoring UAT test scripts, executing calculation logic change validation, managing plan roll-forwards, and maintaining comprehensive SOPs and runbooks that keep operational cycles repeatable and defensible.

- Serve as the frontline operational liaison to the Central Governance & Compliance team , delivering automated calculation logs, approval artifacts, and clear mathematical payout explanations to global sales leaders, managers, and representatives across multiple time zones.

**Basic Qualifications:**

- Experience: 5+ years of technical sales compensation operations, financial systems administration, or payroll calculation experience in a complex, multi-national corporate environment.

- Xactly Platform: Minimum 2 years of hands-on administration and configuration experience with Xactly Incent and Xactly Connect, including crediting rule configuration, plan logic setup, and payout rate table management.

- SQL Proficiency: Demonstrated experience writing complex multi-table JOIN queries, subqueries, indexing, and aggregation scripts to validate high-volume financial transaction datasets.

- Data Automation: Proven experience building automated data validation or reconciliation pipelines using Python (Pandas), Alteryx, or VBA/Power Query in a financial operations context.

**Benefits:**

- Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.

- Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.

- Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.

- Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.

## Skills

### Required
- Xactly platform
- SQL
- Python
- Alteryx
- data automation
- financial operations

### Nice to have
- Xactly certification
- Workday
- Salesforce
- Power BI
- audit & compliance support

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