# Finance Manager, Sales Compensation – Strategic Centre of Excellence

**Company**: S&P Global
**Location**: London
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $85,773 to $153,091
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

## About the Role:

We are seeking a Finance Manager, Sales Compensation – Strategic Centre of Excellence to own the policy architecture at the heart of a global sales compensation function. This role involves designing and governing policies that shape how over 1,500 salespeople are motivated, rewarded, and supported across S&P Global Market Intelligence.

## Responsibilities and Impact

- Design and own the global policy framework governing sales compensation operations, establishing legally robust policies, global approval matrices, and governance standards.

- Lead compensation integration during corporate transactions, spinoffs, and restructurings, ensuring continuity, policy compliance, and operational readiness.

- Own end-to-end precision across all sales compensation KPI, SPIFF, and custom supplemental incentive calculations, ensuring accuracy and audit-readiness.

- Serve as the trusted policy and compensation advisor to senior Sales, Finance, and People Partner stakeholders, providing clear guidance on governance frameworks and incentive structures.

- Govern escalated disputes and deliver insight, managing complex compensation disputes and presenting data-backed performance trends and optimisation recommendations.

- Build the operational knowledge infrastructure, drafting detailed SOPs and governance workflows, and project managing multi-phased compensation initiatives.

## Compensation and Benefits (US Candidates Only)

The anticipated base salary range for this position is $85,773 to $153,091. This role is eligible for an annual incentive plan and additional S&P Global benefits.

## What We Are Looking For

### Basic Required Qualifications

- Experience: 7+ years in sales compensation, finance governance, audit, or corporate incentive strategy within a complex, global commission-paying environment.

- Governance and Audit: Proven experience designing governance frameworks, internal controls, audit trails, and risk mitigation protocols.

- Policy Architecture: Proven experience writing legally robust, unambiguous global sales compensation policies and terms and conditions.

- KPI, SPIFF and Incentive Calculations: Hands-on experience collecting, validating, and calculating sales compensation KPIs, SPIFFs, and complex supplemental incentives.

- Organisational Integration: Proven track record evaluating, mapping, and integrating incentive plans and personnel structures during corporate transactions.

### Additional Preferred Qualifications

- Proven experience upholding governance standards, defending global approval matrices, and negotiating policy changes with senior executives.

- Experience translating complex mathematical compensation rules into clear guidance for sales representatives and senior leaders.

- Hands-on experience with Salesforce workflows and dashboard reporting in a sales compensation or sales operations environment.

- Experience drafting detailed SOPs and governance workflows for global sales compensation operations.

- Track record building and rolling out interactive training libraries and managing adoption.

- Experience analysing and presenting compensation performance trends and optimisation opportunities to senior stakeholders.

## Benefits

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

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

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

- Invest in Your Future: Competitive pay, retirement planning, and financial wellness programs.

- Family Friendly Perks: Best-in-class benefits for families.

## Skills

### Required
- sales compensation
- finance governance
- audit
- corporate incentive strategy
- governance frameworks
- internal controls
- audit trails
- risk mitigation protocols
- policy architecture
- KPI calculations
- SPIFF calculations
- incentive calculations
- organisational integration

### Nice to have
- Salesforce workflows
- dashboard reporting
- SOPs
- governance workflows
- training libraries
- compensation performance analysis

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