Senior Financial Analyst

Our client is a fast growing, global telecommunications company. They are looking for an experienced individual that supports their growing business and to be a business partner with Sales Operations, Marketing and FP&A to ensure integrity of expense to budget, question variances and inconsistencies for the business. While also being a liaison with key stakeholders to discuss changes in commission plans, supporting UAT and possible automation opportunities.

• Ownership over commission accrual and 606 accounting for both UCaas/CCaas and CPaas Business Units in line with IFRS and US GAAP working closely with the Accounting Policy team.
• Responsible for managing the expense close process and issuing final commission flash by working day 2 and advising on variance against prior month as well as forecast.
• Business partner with Sales Operations, Marketing and FP&A to ensure integrity of expense to budget, question variances and inconsistencies for the business.
• Support the Business by maintaining the administration of the Xactly Incent systems. The monthly commission payment process with various deadlines and currencies.
• Manage the annual rollover, development, testing and implementation of new commission plans in Xactly.
• Collaborate with various groups including Legal, Revenue Operations, Sales Operations, Treasury, Pricing team and IT/engineering on any expense impacting activities and translate to U.S. Dollars from local currency.
• Draft policy memos as necessary to support expense accounting and decision support.
• Drive the integration efforts and creation of process and controls from an accounting perspective for new products with the acquisition
• Continuously review and challenge Finance processes and activities from a control perspective, bringing forward improvement recommendations.
• Work to develop and implement new, more efficient procedures to enhance departmental workflow and maintain high levels of accuracy.
• Review customer contracts and provide business support to the Sales teams on customized arrangements and ensure commissions are only paid when appropriate.
• Gather and prepare information for internal and external audit, tax and regulatory compliance activities.
• Understand compensation plans for multiple sales channels to ensure calculations and payments are accurate and in compliance with the contract.
• Responsible for process and controls to ensure compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley.
• Interface with Sales Management, Sales reps, deal desk and Human Resources to analyze and implement changes to ensure the Sales reps/Partners are accurately compensated.
• Responsible for User Acceptance Testing.
• Monthly Accruals and reconciliations for different sales channels.
• Liaise with key stakeholders to discuss changes in commission plans.
• Identify automation opportunities.

Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters with practice background in large or medium sized firms
• 5-7 years of FP&A experience
• Experience accounting for activities in international markets
• IFRS and US GAAP knowledge preferred
• Advanced Excel & Google Suite user, comfortable with setting out commission scenarios and models
• Demonstrated ability to provide excellent customer service to internal and external customers
• Strong planning and problem-solving skills
• Strong written, verbal and presentation skills
• Investigative with a robust nature, and able to challenge the Company management where appropriate