Principal Commissions Analyst

The driving force behind our success has always been the people of AspenTech. What drives us, is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming any hurdle, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way. You will experience these qualities of passion, pride and aspiration in many ways — from a rich set of career development programs to support of community service projects to social events that foster fun and relationship building across our global community.

The Role
AspenTech is looking for a highly motivated Principal Commissions Analyst to take a lead role in driving our sales commission plans, calculations, and audit accuracy globally. This role will be working cross-functionally with the Sales Org, Sales Ops, Financial Planning & Analysis, Accounting, Payroll, Legal, and HR teams and will be responsible for commissions and bonus operations including variable compensation calculations, reporting, and analysis.

Your Impact

• Prepare, calculate, and analyze the monthly commissions payout in accordance with monthly/quarterly cadence.
• Support the Accounting team in preparation of monthly accruals and reconciliations for commissions accounting.
• Provide detailed and accurate reporting to the Sales leadership on compensation models, projections, attainment and other KPIs.
• Serve as Point of Contact for all commissions related questions and provide answers to the sales and sales management teams and maintain regular customer service via Ivanti tickets.
• Develop and build relationships with internal customers (Sales and Sales Ops) to resolve problems, answer any commission related questions or investigate and research open issues.
• Distribute and track completeness of compensation plan sign-off from sales personnel to ensure compliance with company policies.
• Maintain, document, and adhere to internal controls to ensure SOX and policy compliance.
• Build documentation to effectively handle all commissions related processes.
• Develop, maintain, and update tool necessary to sales commissions reporting.
• Perform complex ad hoc analysis as required in support of Sales or Finance Organizations.
• Support initiatives to improve our Sales Commissions processes, tools, or integration with new business lines.

What You'll Need

• 5-10 years of tech company experience in Finance/Accounting preferably with experience as commissions administrator.
• BS/BA in Finance, Accounting or other quantitative fields preferred.
• 2+ years' experience with Varicent or similar compensation tool.
• Experience with CRM/HRIS systems like Salesforce and Workday.
• Organizational skills and change management for working with large quantities of data.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and multi-task in a dynamic setting while maintaining accuracy and delivering against deadlines.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.