Global Senior Sales Compensation Analyst (9 months FTC)

Company Description

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.

Join us to transform the way the world works.

Job Description

At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.

As a Senior Global Sales Compensation Analyst, you will be responsible for supporting the compensation needs of our Global Sales Organization with a high concentration with the APAC Sales Organization. You will play an integral role in maintaining as well as assisting in UAT, system changes within the fiscal year, change of business direction within the commission system, reconciliations as needed, as well as developing sales compensation plans and policies, training new sales hires for the sales incentive system and giving presentation.  
 
You will also assist in implementing plans on an ongoing basis as well as launching the new sales compensation plan, performing accounting and close responsibilities, as well as fielding queries from the salespeople.  

You will have exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills and are comfortable interacting with all levels, including Executive Management, Sales, Finance, and Sales Operations leaders and colleagues.  
 
You are comfortable juggling tasks and able to work productively in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment with a great attitude. You can handle highly sensitive, confidential, and non-routine information supporting a rapidly changing organization. You will have a level of integrity and drive to get things done. 

You're a self-starter who can recognize where processes can be improved and who will take the initiative to improve them. Using your strong communication skills, you'll effectively collaborate with a variety of people and job functions, accomplishing tasks of moderate to high complexity and scope.  
 
You're also able to analyze and anticipate the needs of your managers, business partners and their projects. When circumstances demand, you'll provide strategic support – such as evaluating data or resolving minor operational issues – with your manager's guidance. You can perform flawlessly and professionally in a challenging and extremely fast-paced environment – along with the grace and willingness to change direction when circumstances demand. 

Responsibilities:  

• Support Sales Organization in all sales compensation related matters.  
• Partner with other Compensation team members and Business Partners to solve sales compensation-related business problems and provide sales compensation guidance.  
• Maintain the Sales Incentive Compensation System (Xactly Incent) and case queue. 
• Work with other system integration. 
• Handle compensation enquiries from sales organization. Provide guidance and resolution in English and Chinese (Mandarin) for different sub-market.    
• Create, route, track and reconcile sales compensation plans and payments. 
• Refresh and maintain monthly commission related audit reports 
• Work on special projects such as process improvements, data analysis, presentations, sox requirements and ad hoc reports. 
• Keep the company in compliance with existing and proposed statutory requirements governing compensation. 

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications: 

• BA or BS degree or relevant work experiences 
• 3+ years in sales compensation, sales operations, accounting, or finance. 

Preferred Qualifications:  

• Experience working in high-growth, performance focused environments and administering complex programs. 
• Hands-on experience with CRM systems such as Microsoft Dynamics or Salesforce. 
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate to achieve mutually acceptable solutions. 
• Ability to demonstrate excellent detail orientation, critical thinking, and analytical skills. 
• Self-starter, willingness to learn and teach others 
• Strong communication skills, written and oral, and the ability to positively contribute individually and in team settings. 
• Proficient with Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) 
• Proficient in Excel (formulas, pivot table, charts) 
• Demonstrates an AI-driven mindset with a strong curiosity to explore, identify, and implement opportunities for automation and process optimization. 
• Experience in analyzing data to draw business-relevant conclusions and in data visualization techniques and tools 
• Ability to manage multiple tasks by effective prioritization and timely response. 
• Knowledge of an Incentive System (Xactly Incent) preferred. 
• Fluency in spoken Mandarin for business communication. 

Suggested Skills:

• Sales Compensation
• Microsoft Office
• Stakeholder Management 
• Detail-Oriented
• Communication

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