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.