Sales Operations Analyst

Adobe Software

Adobe Software

IT, Sales & Business Development, Operations
Ottawa, ON, Canada
Posted on Apr 3, 2025

JOB LEVEL

P40

EMPLOYEE ROLE

Individual Contributor

The Opportunity

As a Sales Operations Analyst, your work will have a significant impact on the efficiency and effectiveness compensation processes. By handling compensation elements, aligning plans with role matrices, and ensuring accurate quota management, you will help maintain a fair and motivating compensation structure. Your deep understanding of compensation plan components and meticulous administrative checks will ensure the quality of our compensation setups, enabling accurate incentive and payment calculations.

Your attention to detail and ability to interpret and summarize compensation information will provide valuable insights for business decisions. Collaborating with multiple teams, you will facilitate high-quality communication and teamwork, ensuring that tools are used reliably, and issues are resolved promptly.

What you'll Do

  • Management of Compensation Elements: Assignment of Compensation Plans, Alignment to Role Matrix, Rep Quota Management
  • Compensation Plan Expert: Understand the mechanics of various compensation plans, including commission rates, SPIFFs, transactional crediting, measure types, etc.
  • Incentive and Commission Calculations: Ensure the system and data setup to accurately calculate incentives and commission payments.
  • Administrative Checks: Perform administrative checks to ensure the quality and completeness of compensation information and setup. Update and maintain critical information for compensation processes.
  • Collaboration and Communication: Work closely with Sales Operations and Finance teams, maintaining high-quality communication. Enable teams to ensure the effective use of tools and resolve issues as a domain expert. Collaborate with the technical support team to answer system and tool questions. Adhering to SLAs to ensure timely and effective support.

What you need to succeed

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in business or technology subject area, preferably including course work related to data management and information systems.
  • Technical abilities and a passion for learning and growth in this area.
  • Experience in a professional technology firm environment working with compensation tools and supporting end user workflows.
  • Experience with business intelligence tools such as MS SQL, PowerBI, PowerApps, Flow, Excel, and Anaplan is a plus.
  • Be a self-starter that thrives in the face of challenge, clearing obstacles with a resourceful and creative approach to problem-solving.
  • Ability to operate with mentorship on new projects.
  • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
  • Attention to detail, balanced with the ability to distill complex issues down to the essentials.
  • Ability to work as part of a team, and act as a subject matter specialist to meet ambitious goals and pre-defined measurement criteria.
  • Maintain a high energy and positive outlook, with a contagious sense of humor that helps you to adapt to the changing needs of the business.

Internal Opportunities

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