Sales Compensation Analyst

Company Description
**Our Mission**

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:
Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These aren’t easy goals to accomplish - but we’re not here for easy. We’re here for better. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Disruption is at the core of our technology and on our way of work to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. We’re changing the nature of work from benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks. And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, together.

**Job Description**:
**Your Career**

Palo Alto Networks is currently recruiting for a Sales Compensation Analyst within the Human Resources organization reporting to the Sales Compensation Manager. The Sales Compensation Analyst will work alongside a team of experienced Compensation Analysts responsible for the administration of monthly commissions and payments in accordance with the Palo Alto Networks Sales Compensation Plans. This position will have to have a hands on approach in Sales Compensation issue resolution with the sales employees and other business partners. This position will also help support the operational audits and SOX controlled audit, as well. This role will support several business organizations to help resolve any Sales Compensation issues.

**Your Impact**
- Participate in the roll out of compensation plans to the sales force, preparing supporting documentation.
- Assist in researching and responding to Sales employees ServiceNow submitted questions.
- Training Sales and Sales Operations employees on the details of the compensation plan and design
- Conduct meetings with Sales and Sales Operations employees on all aspects of compensation inquiries
- Assist in the monthly preparation of commissions forecasts, accruals, and payments for domestic and international sales organizations.
- Perform SOX control checks, and related audits, reconciliations, and remediations in accordance with our internal audit procedures.
- Ability to work cross functionally and effectively interact with other departments.
- Provides ad-hoc compensation and commission analysis, modeling of proposed compensation plans and reporting as required.

**Qualifications**:
**Your Experience**
- 3+ years of experience in finance/accounting/sales operations/commissions/payroll or related experience.
- Advanced spreadsheet skills required (lookups, charts, reports and pivot tables).
- Must have outstanding interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Must be organized, detail oriented, thorough and accurate. Must have the ability to work under pressure and deliver against tight deadlines with complete accuracy.
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills and comfortable with large data-mining/analysis.
- Ability to work independently and take initiative.

Additional Information
**The Team**

Our People team works throughout the organization to enable... you guessed it: people. We’re one team, driven to one mission statement. Each piece matters, and within the People team, you are focused on enabling our teams to resolve the world’s most challenging cybersecurity threats.

You will be part of a growing, passionate, and dynamic team with an opportunity to work on challenging and exciting projects — centered on what we believe is one of the most significant mission statements in the world.

**Our Commitment**

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

Palo Alto Networks is evolving and changing the nature of work to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines

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