Okta is looking for a highly motivated Senior Product Analyst to take a lead role in creating the strategy, design, and operationalization of incentive compensation plans across the Worldwide Sales Organization. This is a key role reporting to the Senior Manager, Business Platforms and responsible for ensuring efficiencies within current processes, focusing on automation. This role will partner with cross-functional teams across Okta to drive global consistency, data quality, processing accuracy, and system integrations to scale.
Responsibilities
- Drive process and system improvements to ensure efficiency and to reduce risks
- Document requirements and own delivery for commissions-related technology efforts.
- Support the accounting team by preparing timely and accurate commission accruals and reconciliations
- Provide analysis and business insight on financial results (attainments, trends, performance metrics, benchmarks, etc.)
- Ensure compensation plans are effectively supporting the various business goals and strategies
- Maintain and enhance internal controls over accounting processes and systems to ensure SOX and policy compliance
- Support quarterly/annual audit requests/inquiries from internal and external auditors
- Manage the annual updates of commission plans and oversee UAT preparation and execution
- Ad hoc projects and requests
Requirements:
- 5 years’ experience working in commissions in a technology company (SaaS/Cloud preferred)
- Able to design and implement large complex projects involving multiple organizations across Okta
- An understanding of modern, cloud related business processes
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; able to influence across the organization
- Willingness to learn new technologies, platforms, and business processes
- Strong technical and business acumen working in an agile environment
- Product management mindset to proactively enhance the capabilities of the Business Technology platform
- Experience with continuous integration practices and tools
- Experience with Xactly Incent with a focus on configuration, plan designs and implementation
- Experience in analyzing sales commissions processes and finding automation opportunities
- Experience in configuration of Xactly fields from Salesforce
- BS/BA in accounting, finance, economics, or other quantitative field
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