Five9

Five9

Manager, Sales Commissions - Contractor

United States (Remote) · Contract

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 36 days ago
CRMSalesAccountingCustomer SuccessLeadershipMentoringVariance Analysis

About the role

  • Join us in bringing joy to customer experience.
  • We celebrate diversity and foster an inclusive environment, empowering our employees to be their authentic selves.
  • This role is responsible for ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant commission payments for sales and customer success representatives.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the end‑to‑end commission process for hundreds of quota‑carrying reps, ensuring accurate and timely payouts.
  • Manage a small team, providing coaching, workload prioritization, and performance guidance.
  • Partner closely with Sales Operations, Deal Desk, Payroll, and HR to ensure alignment on compensation plans, bookings, and employee data.
  • Design, maintain, and enhance commission models to support evolving compensation plans, new sales roles, SPIFFs, and business initiatives.
  • Perform and oversee calculation validation, tie‑outs, and variance analysis prior to payout approval.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in sales commissions, revenue operations, or compensation accounting, including people leadership experience.
  • Strong working knowledge of CRM and bookings systems.
  • Proven ability to work cross‑functionally with Finance, Sales Ops, Payroll, HR, and Audit.
  • Ability to balance operational execution with system and control improvements
  • Clear communicator with the ability to explain complex commission logic to non‑technical stakeholders

Compensation

  • The Manager will be responsible for overseeing the maintenance of an Incentive Compensation Management (ICM) tool, as well as ETL integrations and SOX controls related to commissions.

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