Financial Analyst, Advertising Expense
Hearst
- New York City, NY
- $64,000-77,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Become a subject matter expert in Hearst Magazine's sales compensation policy and practices
- Collaborate with Business Insights and Sales Operations teams to ensure accurate and timely commission calculations and payouts.
- Support sales team members by responding to inquiries, providing report training and investigating data
- Research and facilitate the resolution of sales commission related issues. Identify and report systemic or recurring problems.
- Continuously evaluate and enhance sales compensation processes and systems to improve efficiency, accuracy, and transparency.
- Collaborate with IT and operations teams to automate compensation calculations and reporting.
- Assist in evaluating different compensation structures at the request of management.
- Deliver regular and ad-hoc sales compensation reports and dashboards to provide insights to sales leadership and stakeholders.
- Provide metrics and analysis to be used to evaluate the effectiveness of the compensation plans, and suggest improvements.
- Assist in developing training materials to educate sales teams on compensation programs and tools.
- Additional responsibilities will include assisting in the analysis of other advertising expenses and lines of business and providing management with ad hoc reporting/analysis as needed.
- Bachelor's degree in finance or similar field
- 1-2 year's financial or business management
- Proficiency in Excel and Microsoft Office Suite required (including pivot tables, look up functions)
- Exceptional attention to detail with ability to work with accuracy and meet deadlines
- Retains interests in problem solving, variance analysis, and auditing
- Highly organized with strong ability to multi-task and prioritize
- Must be highly collaborative and have strong interpersonal skills to positively communicate with all levels of staff
- Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to clearly convey recommendations and conclusions to senior leadership
- Knowledge of Oracle Financials, Oracle Planning & Budgeting Cloud Service (EPBCS), Salesforce, Xactly and/or Smartview a plus.
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to work with large datasets