Sales Finance Manager

Summary

Join Experian as a hands-on Finance Manager, partnering with the Employer Services Sales team. This dynamic role encompasses end-to-end ownership of sales compensation processes, from design to execution. You will leverage financial insights to impact results, collaborating with sales, accounting, and other teams. The position involves overseeing compensation plan implementation, leading the finance support model, securing accurate data for sales tracking, delivering financial analysis, and process engineering for new integrations. You will also support and train sales teams, lead annual goal setting, manage governance for large deals, and drive process improvements through automation. This role requires a business leader with transformation experience in a Finance Sales Partnership environment and reports to the Finance Director, Housing, working remotely from the United States.

Requirements

• Business leader with experience delivering transformation and change within a Finance Sales Partnership environment
• 5+ years of related experience in Sales Finance and Employer Services industry designing and managing sales compensation plans, with broad knowledge of multiple financial domains including financial analysis, forecasting, pricing, management reporting, budgeting and strategic planning
• Experience communicating analytical findings for a range of different audiences, collaborative, commercial knowledge, team player
• Previous experience managing projects end-to-end and has experience getting results, organizing, and prioritizing deadlines
• Bachelor's degree in Finance or related discipline, familiarity with Tableau and global billing systems
• Working knowledge of GAAP and IFRS

Responsibilities

• Oversee the design, validation and implementation of new compensation plans and for the Employer Services Sales organization
• Autonomously set up and lead our Employer Services Finance support model day-to-day
• Partner with Global & Regional Teams to take ownership in securing regular and accurate data feeds from global billing systems for tracking sales accomplishment against targets
• Help deliver impactful consolidated financial analysis and report solutions by improving speed of insight and increasing sales performance
• Process engineering as new products, teams, acquisitions, and investments are integrated into sales
• Lead the development cycle for improving current processes through streamlining and automation, applying financial discipline, and collaboration with partners to deliver the broader Employer Services and Verification Solutions business strategy
• Support and train Sales as their front facing finance partner with daily interaction with sales teams to help improve performance
• Lead the annual goal setting process in partnership with sales and finance leadership while using multiple BU's across NA as sounding boards as applicable
• Manage governance approval process for large commercial deals

Benefits

• Great compensation package and bonus plan
• Core benefits including medical, dental, vision, and matching 401K
• Flexible work environment, ability to work remote, hybrid or in-office
• Flexible time off including volunteer time off, vacation, sick and 12-paid holidays