# Associate Director, Sales Compensation Operations

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

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## Description

### About the Role:

We are seeking an Associate Director to lead our Sales Compensation Operations team, a high-accountability, globally connected group that values disciplined execution, urgency, and end-to-end ownership. You will be responsible for the accuracy, governance, and financial integrity of commission payments across the full end-to-end process.

### Responsibilities and Impact:

- Lead and develop a team of compensation analysts and operations specialists, setting goals, maintaining accountability, and building a culture of precision, urgency, and end-to-end ownership.

- Build and execute scenario modeling and stress-testing frameworks to forecast total plan spend and assess the financial impact of plan adjustments, structural redesigns, and macroeconomic shifts.

- Lead final validation and sign-off on global commission payroll processing runs, evaluating and authorising large payments, non-standard payouts, and custom executive incentives.

- Sign off on monthly SOX and Audit controls, performing ongoing risk evaluations related to deal cancellations, retroactive adjustments, and data integrity risks.

- Partner with Legal and People Partners to resolve sensitive compensation disputes and high-value grievances.

- Translate complex commission formulas, crediting rules, and payout outcomes into clear explanations for sales representatives, managers, and senior leaders.

### Compensation and Benefits (US Candidates Only):

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

- This role is eligible for an annual incentive plan and additional S&P Global benefits.

### What We Are Looking For:

- 7+ years in sales compensation operations, finance governance, audit, or corporate financial modeling within a complex commission-paying environment, including 2+ years in a people leadership role.

- Proven knowledge of complex plan mechanics, including quotas, accelerators, thresholds, caps, splits, crediting rules, draws, guarantees, clawbacks, recoveries, SPIFFs, and executive incentive structures.

- Advanced Excel proficiency, including nested logic, dynamic arrays, Power Query, variance analysis, scenario modeling, stress testing, and payout forecasting.

- Experience identifying and mitigating commission-specific financial risks, including overpayments, underpayments, retroactive adjustments, unauthorized overrides, and data integrity issues.

- Proven experience maintaining SOX-compliant documentation, approvals, and audit-ready evidence for commission payroll processing cycles.

### 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.

- Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.

- Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards,small perks can make a big difference.

## Skills

### Required
- Excel
- Financial Modeling
- SOX Compliance
- Audit Readiness
- Commission Operations
- Leadership

### Nice to have
- VBA
- Python/Pandas
- SQL
- Alteryx
- Xactly
- Varicent
- Anaplan
- SAP Commissions

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