Finance Manager, Commissions

Brex Brex · Fintech · New York, NY · Finance

Finance Manager, Commissions at Brex, a fintech company. This role focuses on designing, implementing, and managing commission structures and payouts for sales and revenue teams. Responsibilities include modeling incentive plans, owning the Captivate IQ strategy, ensuring accurate payments, preparing reports with trend analysis, and analyzing sales performance data. The role requires collaboration with sales, revenue, and operations teams to ensure commission accuracy and efficiency, and responding to escalated commission-related issues. Requires a BA/BS in Business, Finance, or Accounting, 4+ years of relevant experience, and experience with Captivate IQ. Nice-to-haves include advanced analytical skills, US GAAP knowledge, and experience in SaaS or recurring revenue models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Assists in designing and modeling commission and sales incentive plans. Partner with sales management to provide cost-impact solutions and/or opportunities related to commission/incentive designs.
  2. Own the Captivate IQ strategy, implementation, and reporting of commission/incentive processing policies and procedures.
  3. Ensure commission and sales incentive payments have been properly processed.
  4. Prepare monthly commission and sales incentive payment summary reports for Executive leadership with trend analysis and forecast projections.
  5. Analyze sales performance data to provide insights and recommendations to senior leadership on commission-related decisions.

Skills

Required

  • BA/BS degree, preferably in Business, Finance, or Accounting
  • 4+ years of relevant finance, commissions, revenue operations, or sales operations experience.
  • Experience with implementing and maintaining Captivate IQ.
  • Proven track record of leading a team in a distributed work environment
  • Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills with proven success partnering and collaborating across various functions
  • Experience retrieving and handling large amounts of data in Excel or other database systems
  • Highly self-motivated and stellar work ethic with strong attention to detail

Nice to have

  • Advanced analytical skills and significant knowledge and understanding of US GAAP
  • Experience working in a SaaS company or other recurring revenue model business
  • Experience with Salesforce, Looker, and Hex

What the JD emphasized

  • Captivate IQ strategy, implementation, and reporting
  • commission and sales incentive payments have been properly processed
  • Analyze sales performance data
  • commission accuracy and effectiveness
  • complex commission or sales incentive-related processing problems
  • Experience with implementing and maintaining Captivate IQ