Sales Systems Analyst, Amazon Web Services

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the leading cloud provider, providing virtualized infrastructure, storage, networking, messaging, and many other services to customers all over the world. AWS runs a globally distributed environment, operating at massive levels of scale and is growing at a staggering pace in terms of revenue, customers, people and complexity. Businesses, educational institutions, governments and non-profits depend on AWS for secure cloud services and solutions.

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Global Sales Compensation (GSC) Operations team is seeking a Sales Compensation Systems Analyst to join our operations team. As part of the GSC Operations team, you will be responsible for supporting the day-to-day administration of the Varicent ICM sales compensation system for sales incentive-eligible employees globally. Objectives for this role will include driving operational process improvements in compensation, quota management, compensation adjustments, quarterly payouts, compensation plan administration, and improving the scalability of our program tools.

This role requires working with global business owners in HR, Legal, Sales, Finance, Sales Operations, Revenue, Segmentation, Product & Technology, and our Business Intelligence team to ensure the proper plan design, calculation, delivery, and execution of sales commissions. Cross-team coordination, time management, and excellent communication skills are essential. It is key that we pay employees on time and accurately.

• Supports the day-to-day administration of sales compensation including data validation, data analysis, and communicating proposed resolutions and timelines to leadership.
• Identifies operational risks and engages necessary stakeholders to frame issues and desired end states.
• Communicates effectively with technical teams on root causes of issues and business requirements.
• Performs user acceptance testing (UAT) for process and system updates.
• Assists with the distribution of incentive compensation plans, including plan setup, quota shifts, revenue adjustments, etc.
• Ensures all compensation methodologies, policies, procedures and governance are followed.
• Collaborates with internal stakeholders including HR, Tax, and Legal to ensure compensation methodologies, policies, and procedures are maintained in production.
• Supports the global quarterly commission payout process including manual compensation adjustments, calculations and approval process.
• Creates mechanisms to help improve efficiency of processes.
• Strong Excel & SQL skills preferred.

• 5+ years of Microsoft Excel experience
• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• Experience with sales CRM tools such as Salesforce or similar software
• Experience defining, refining and implementing sales processes, procedures and policies or equivalent
• Prior sales compensation experience - Experience with sales ICM tools such as Varicent, Xactly, or similar software

• 5+ years of finance, business management and sales operations experience
• Experience working within a high-growth, technology company

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $79,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $169,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors…