This role is remote, based in the US.

The Commissions Manager leads and manages GitLab's commissions programs globally. This requires collaboration with cross-functional departments and leveraging systems for all related business processes in a fast-paced distributed environment. This requires someone to be extremely well organized, analytical and detailed-oriented, with a solid knowledge of Sales Incentive Compensation best practices and related operational execution to help drive innovative solutions and optimize go-to-market effectiveness. In particular be an expert administrator with Xactly and have managed all aspects of end-to-end commissions processes. The Commissions Manager supports the vision of Gitlab’s CRO team and reports to our Sr. Manager, Sales Strategy.

Responsibilities

• Own worldwide commissions calculations, reporting, policies and provide first-tier support for all end-user technical or commission inquiries. Includes sales, customer success, alliances, and market development.
• Partner with various functions such as Sales Operations, People Operations and Finance to establish best practices, as well as drive on-going process refinement to improve the efficiency and accuracy of sales commissions methodology, calculations and reporting
• Provides high quality, timely responses to the CRO management team and communicates complex logic and analysis in a manner that is consumable
• Ownership of commissions systems process and infrastructure, along with project manage implementation of any changes
• Participate as a key member of the Sales Incentive team and provide guidance on global design, delivery of deployed plans, governance, controls, metrics and best practices
• Research compensation issues, disputes, appeals and provide analysis to facilitate resolution.
• Responsible for timely and accurate preparation of monthly accruals, deferrals, reconciliations and provide fluctuation analysis for commissions accounting
• Train new hires with variable compensation on plans and system
• Maintain data integrity within Xactly, Salesforce.com and other related systems
• Assist external audit firm on commission related matters for quarterly reviews and annual audits and ad hoc requests
• Ensure compliance with SOX for compensation documents, processes, programs and policies

Requirements

• BA/BS degree in accounting, finance, economics or other quantitative fields preferred
• 8+ years relevant experience and a solid understanding of sales incentive programs, processes and procedures
• Advanced analytical and modeling skills with the ability to interpret and analyze data
• Ability to partner, collaborate and influence across functional areas (e.g. Finance, People Operations and Sales) and support multiple business partners
• Excellent problem solving, project management, interpersonal and organizational skills
• Deep SFDC, Commission Tool expertise and knowledge of typical enterprise SaaS tools
• SaaS and B2B experience preferred
• Interest in GitLab, and open source software
• You share our values, and work in accordance with those values.
• Leadership at GitLab
• Ability to use GitLab

Compensation

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