Job Title: Analyst, Sales Compensation
Role Overview
- Title: Analyst, Sales Compensation
- Location: Bangalore, India
- Reports to: Manager, Sales Compensation (Based in Bangalore)
- Team: Individual contributor; sits within the global Sales Compensation team
- Job family: Accounting
About the Role
As an Analyst, Sales Compensation, you’ll play a key role in operating the incentive programs that power company’s go-to-market organization. Sitting within Accounting and partnering closely with the RevOps team, you’ll help ensure our sales teams are compensated accurately, on time, and in alignment with company’s growth goals.
This role sits at the intersection of Finance, Sales Operations, and Systems, supporting commission calculations, platform administration, and baseline performance reporting. You’ll be responsible for executing day-to-day compensation processes, maintaining data integrity across systems, and assisting with reporting that provides visibility into sales performance.
This is a highly quantitative, detail-oriented role. You’ll support commission calculations and payout mechanics while contributing to process improvements as company continues to grow. If you enjoy working with complex data, solving compensation challenges, and supporting fast-paced sales organizations, this role offers meaningful impact and career growth opportunities.
What You Will Do
- Assist in the rollout and ongoing administration of sales compensation programs, plan documentation, and user support
- Execute monthly and quarterly sales commission calculations, validations, reconciliations, and payout preparation, ensuring high accuracy and timeliness
- Maintain dashboards and basic analytical models to track quota attainment, commission payouts, and performance trends
- Support the administration of company’s Incentive Compensation Management platform, including data uploads, basic plan configuration, and user acceptance testing for plan updates
- Partner cross-functionally with Sales Operations, Revenue Operations, Finance, Accounting, and Systems to ensure data integrity across Salesforce, compensation tools, and reporting layers, and to support close and governance processes
- Respond to routine seller inquiries regarding commission payouts and provide timely, accurate clarifications
What You Will Need
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, Business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 2–5 years of experience in sales compensation, commissions administration, sales operations, finance, or a related analytical role, preferably in a SaaS or tech environment
- Robust proficiency in Salesforce and advanced Excel or Google Sheets, including pivot tables, nested formulas, and data analysis workflows
- Hands-on experience with commission management platforms such as Captivate IQ, Xactly, ever stage, Spiff, or Quota Path
- Solid understanding of sales compensation structures, quota-based incentives, revenue crediting methodologies, and payout mechanics
- Exceptional attention to detail and analytical rigor, with the ability to clearly communicate findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- High ownership mentality and strong interpersonal skills, with comfort working independently in fast-paced, ambiguous environments
Core Competencies
1. Variable compensation administration: Solid understanding of commission calculation logic, payout cycles, and plan mechanics
2. Data-driven analysis & reporting: Builds models, audits payouts, and turns attainment data into clear recommendations
3. Process execution & detail orientation: Follows established playbooks accurately and maintains high data precision
4. Cross-functional partnership & stakeholder management: Partners effectively with Sales, RevOps, Finance, and Accounting; manages seller and leader escalations
5. Communication & support: Clearly communicates commission calculations and resolves seller questions in a professional manner
📌 Sales Analyst (Karnataka)
🏢 CTC
📍 Karnataka