Manager

Summary

Join Centric Software as a Manager, Global Sales Compensation, a remote US-based role offering a competitive salary ($150-$180K USD) plus bonus. You will lead global sales commission accounting and financial reporting, ensuring accurate and timely calculations and compliance. Responsibilities include managing the Sales Compensation Team, driving best practices, and working cross-functionally with various departments. Success requires strong attention to detail, ownership, and effective communication. The role reports to the Director of Technical Revenue Accounting & Sales Compensation within a fast-paced, public company environment. This position offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on the company's financial operations and sales team success.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting/finance and at least 5 years’ applicable work experience
• Knowledge of accounting for costs to obtain customer contracts under IFRS 15 (or ASC 606 & Subtopic 340-40)
• Analytical Skills: Ability to work independently, think objectively and interpret meaningful themes from quantitative and qualitative business data
• Financial and Business Acumen: Proven success in evaluating financial and business indicators and translating that data into actionable goals / models to drive results in a rapidly changing and ambiguous environment
• Problem Solving Skills: Demonstrated strong experience using rigorous logic and methods to solve problems with effective solutions
• Relationship Management: Proven success in building constructive and effective relationships throughout a diverse set of business partners
• Leadership Experience: Ability to influence at all levels, and to communicate work effectively and assertively within a team environment
• Communication Skills: Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to effectively communicate at multiple levels in the organization, including Sales, Management, Executives
• Interpersonal Skills: Professional, courteous, friendly, and empathetic
• Ability to handle multiple projects with high attention to detail in a deadline-driven environment
• Expertise in MS Excel – experience with pivot tables, complex formulas, lookup functions, etc

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the administration of the Global Sales Incentive Plan, including timely electronic distribution of plans and tracking acceptance, individual plan set-up in the system, process adjustments, and data validation
• Work cross-functionally with multiple departments, including Sales Operations, Revenue Operations, and Sales, to ensure accurate data used in sales compensation calculations
• Ensure accurate and timely calculation of sales compensation and accruals
• Perform and/or review validation of monthly commission calculations, prior to accrual
• Account for sales compensation and costs to obtain sales contracts in accordance with IFRS 15
• Prepare and/or oversee the preparation of monthly account analysis, reconciliations, and related financial reporting and metrics
• Ensure day-to-day department compliance with policies and procedures and SOX controls
• Ensure accurate and timely payroll submission, sales commission statement publication, and response to sales team inquiries
• Manage the sales compensation team

Preferred Qualifications

• Corporate accounting experience within a public company, preferred
• Expertise using ERPs such as NetSuite (NetSuite preferred)
• Expertise using Salesforce and incentive compensation tools (ZenCentiv, Xactly, etc.) preferred

Benefits

$150 - $180 base + bonus and benefits