Sales Compensation Analyst

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · Hyderabad, India

Salesforce is seeking a Sales Compensation Analyst to join their Global Incentive Compensation team in Hyderabad. The role involves supporting sales inquiries regarding variable compensation, coordinating with departments, and improving existing processes. Responsibilities include managing the monthly commission process, identifying process improvement opportunities, leading innovation projects for self-assistance tools, conducting sales enablement sessions, resolving compensation inquiries, and processing corrections. The ideal candidate will have 4+ years of relevant experience, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and excellent communication abilities. Experience with MS Excel is required, and experience with Salesforce, SQL, and Python is a plus.

What you'd actually do

  1. Manage the monthly commission process for Salesforce direct sales. This includes understanding and applying the commission plan consistently, ensuring commission calculations comply with the plan, and managing exception requests versus policy
  2. Identify the opportunities to improve the existing process to provide seamless support to Sales
  3. Lead Innovation projects to design/develop self-assistance tools for Sales
  4. Conduct sales enablement sessions to enable sales on the Sales/Incentive comp policies
  5. Receive, investigate and resolve incoming inquiries related to variable compensation. Frequent communication with account executives and sales management via commission cases and become a trusted advisor to our Sales teams

Skills

Required

  • 4+ years of relevant work experience in a customer-facing role
  • Advanced skills in MS Excel
  • Analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Strong organizational skills
  • Ability to communicate and work with remote teams

Nice to have

  • Experience using Salesforce and/or automated sales commissions systems is a plus (e.g. Xactly, Callidus)
  • Experience with SQL, Salesforce, and Python is a plus
  • Analytical, written, and oral communication skills
  • Detail and process-oriented
  • Excellent command of English with effective communication skills
  • Works well independently and as a strong team player
  • Ability to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
  • Responsive to tight deadlines and ability to prioritize appropriately