Sales Compensation Analyst

Job Description

The Sales Compensation Analyst supports recurring sales compensation administration, commission calculation support, exception tracking, data validation, and reporting activities. This role helps ensure sales compensation programs are administered accurately and on time in accordance with approved plan rules and governance requirements.

The role supports Sales Compensation Operations by maintaining data inputs, preparing routine calculations and reports, researching exceptions, and partnering with team members to resolve stakeholder questions. More complex exceptions, governance questions, or plan interpretation issues are escalated to the Senior Analyst, Team Lead, or Sales Compensation Manager.

As a Sales Compensation Analyst you will...

• Support recurring commission calculations, data validation, and payout preparation.
• Research and track compensation exceptions and stakeholder inquiries.
• Maintain compensation reports, data files, and administrative documentation.
• Support ICM/system updates, testing, and routine reporting activities.
• Partner with Sales Compensation team members to improve accuracy and process discipline.

We are seeking someone who is passionate about...

• Accurate, timely, and well-documented compensation operations.
• Learning incentive plan administration and compensation data processes.
• Supporting stakeholders with reliable information and follow-through.
• Improving data quality, reporting, and standard work.

Responsibilities

• Support recurring commission calculations, payout preparation, exception tracking, data validation, and compensation reporting for assigned sales populations.
• Research and respond to routine compensation inquiries, data questions, and exception items while escalating complex issues to the Senior Analyst, Team Lead, or Manager.
• Maintain and validate compensation data inputs, files, reports, dashboards, and administrative records to support accurate plan operations and payout cycles. Support Finance/FP&A with periodic estimates of incentive plan expense (commissions, SPIFFs, bonuses) to inform quarterly and annual accrual entries.
• Assist with ICM/system updates, testing, plan administration activities, documentation, and standard operating procedures.
• Support process improvement, data quality cleanup, and team workload needs during high-volume compensation cycles.
• Apply approved plan rules and standard procedures to routine calculations, reporting, and exception tracking.
• Determine when compensation questions or exceptions are outside routine guidance and require escalation.
• Prioritize assigned tasks based on payout cycle timing, data readiness, and stakeholder urgency.
• Validate completeness and accuracy of routine data inputs and reports before submission or review.
• Identify data inconsistencies, missing inputs, or calculation issues and work with team members to resolve.
• Research routine stakeholder questions and document findings clearly.
• Support testing and validation of system updates, plan changes, and reporting outputs.
• Maintain accuracy while working through multiple time-sensitive compensation cycle deliverables.
• Minimal travel required; occasional travel may be needed for planning sessions, stakeholder meetings, system implementation activities, or leadership reviews.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Human Resources, Analytics, Accounting, or related field; equivalent directly relevant experience may be considered.
• 2-4 years of experience in compensation, finance operations, sales operations, HR operations, analytics, reporting, or related field.
• Coursework or certification in compensation, finance, analytics, Excel, or data tools is a plus.

About Us

RB Global (NYSE: RBA)

RB Global (NYSE: RBA) (TSX: RBA) is a leading, omnichannel marketplace that provides value-added insights, services and transaction solutions for buyers and sellers of commercial assets and vehicles worldwide. Through its auction sites in 13 countries and digital platform, RB Global serves customers in more than 170 countries across a variety of asset classes, including automotive, commercial transportation, construction, government surplus, lifting and material handling, energy, mining and agriculture.

The company's marketplace brands include Ritchie Bros., the world's largest auctioneer of commercial assets and vehicles offering online bidding, and IAA, a leading global digital marketplace connecting vehicle buyers and sellers. RB Global's portfolio of brands also includes Rouse Services, which provides a complete end-to-end asset management, data-driven intelligence and performance benchmarking system; SmartEquip, an innovative technology platform that supports customers' management of the equipment lifecycle and integrates parts procurement with both OEMs and dealers; Xcira, a leader in live simulcast auction technologies; and Veritread, an online marketplace for heavy haul transport.

About the Team

About the team - Corporate

As a global company, our corporate teams support billions of dollars in equipment sales every year.

In joining our corporate services teams, you will be ensuring the business runs smoothly in your respective verticals and supporting the overall business to achieve our core objectives.

Every day your work will make a difference in the way we run our business and in the way customers interact with us.