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Sales Compensation Analyst

Sierra· Operations
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San Francisco, CAFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Sales compensation analyst responsible for monthly/quarterly commission cycles, data reconciliation, payout validation, and collaboration with Salesforce and data owners to ensure accurate commission calculations and reporting.

Responsibilities

  • Run the monthly and quarterly commission cycle, from pulling data and calculating commissions to validating payouts, getting approvals and handing off to payroll.
  • Investigate rep questions, document what you find, recommend fixes, and clear issues quickly so reps trust their payouts.
  • Work with Salesforce and data owners to keep source data clean, map new fields and deal types, and find upstream problems before they turn into payout errors.
  • Reconcile and audit payouts against payroll, bookings and plan terms every cycle.
  • Model the cost and payout impact of proposed plan changes and set up new plans in the system.
  • Automate manual steps, tighten SLAs and build reporting on attainment, payout cost and comp effectiveness.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in sales compensation, commissions operations or a closely related finance/RevOps role.
  • A track record of managing commission cycles across multiple regions, currencies, and payroll schedules, from data collection through payout validation, approvals, and payroll handoff.
  • Strong analytical skills, including payout modeling, data reconciliation, and investigating discrepancies against compensation plan terms.
  • Experience using Salesforce to pull and review sales data for commission calculations.
  • Ability to configure sales compensation tools to calculate, validate, and report commission payouts.
  • Clear, calm communication with sellers and leaders, including during difficult payout conversations.

Skills

Required:Sales compensation managementData reconciliationSalesforce

Benefits

  • Flexible (unlimited) paid time off
  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family
  • Life insurance and disability benefits
  • Retirement plan dependent on country of employment
  • Parental leave
  • Fertility and family building benefits through Carrot
  • Lunch, snacks and coffee
  • Discretionary benefit stipend
  • Free alphorn lessons
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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