Who we are:

Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time ever, safety, operations and finance teams can manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet related spend in a single system. Combined with industry leading AI, the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control, and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks.

Motive serves nearly 100,000 customers – from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses – across a wide range of industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector.

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About the Role:

Motive is looking for an experienced professional to join the Sales Compensation team as a Lead Sales Compensation Analyst. We’re looking for someone who is self-motivated, and has best-in-class real-world experience that they can bring in to help build scalable processes.

The Lead Sales Compensation Analyst will also help solve sales comp challenges and drive process improvements by evaluating, documenting, and implementing new processes to ensure plans, policies and payments are timely, complete and accurate. In addition to the day-to-day administration within the system (Xactly), this person will be required to “roll up their sleeves” in order to understand and resolve the root cause of certain challenges within the function. This also means there will be a high degree of cross-functional partnerships, which will necessitate a high degree of collaboration in order to ensure best-in-class support to both internal and external customers.

What You'll Do:

• Support day-to-day commissions administration process including global monthly commission payout, manual adjustments, and exceptions
• Provide timely resolution for commission-related inquiries from plan participants including but not limited to system access issues, transaction disputes, credits, and payment calculations
• Validate data and quantify impact through data analysis and communicate proposed resolutions and timelines to leadership
• Participate in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for system updates by validating and confirming desired results
• Track and report on the status of plan acceptance to ensure compliance and timeliness
• Own process of end-to-end of organization alignment (hierarchy, setup, and payouts)
• Offer cross-functional support to business partners as it pertains to data validation, data requests, and other various tasks
• Work with business partners and auditors on an ongoing basis for ad hoc requests, projects, and compliance audits

What We're Looking For:

• 4+ years of experience in compensation administration
• Strong communication and customer service skills
• Demonstrate the ability to learn about tools and systems to build on existing knowledge and processes
• Willingness and ability to adapt to the rapid business and organizational changes that accompany a very high-growth environment
• Highly detail oriented with emphasis on accuracy, coupled with the ability to see the broader picture
• Advanced Excel / Google Sheet skills (proficient in building models and tools)
• ICM Experience (i.e Xactly, Callidus, Varicent, Anaplan, Everstage) is a very strong plus

Pay Transparency
Your compensation may be based on several factors, including education, work experience, and certifications. For certain roles, total compensation may include restricted stock units. Motive offers benefits including health, pharmacy, optical and dental care benefits, paid time off, sick time off, short term and long term disability coverage, life insurance as well as 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Learn more about our benefits by visiting Motive Perks & Benefits.
The compensation range for this position will depend on where you reside. For this role, the compensation range is:

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