Commission Analyst at APTEAN – Alpharetta, Georgia

APTEAN
Position Title: Commission Analyst

Location: Atlanta GA USA Alpharetta, Georgia US

Location Details: Onsite

Experience Level: Experienced Professional
Country: United States

Type: Employee Regular Full Time

Job Description Overview

Are you ready for what’s next, now?

We’re looking for a Commission Analyst to join our team in the US. The is a full-time, onsite position in our Alpharetta, GA office. You’ll join an awesome team to support our growing sales team.

About the Role:

We are seeking a Commission Analyst to join our Sales Compensation team, a key function within Finance. This role will play a critical part in managing and continuously improving the systems and processes that support our global commission program. Reporting to the Incentive Compensation Manager, the Analyst will serve as a key resource for ensuring accurate and timely delivery of compensation plans and payouts, while also driving operational efficiencies and providing strategic reporting and insights.

This role will serve as a bridge between Sales, Sales Operations/GTM, HR, and Accounting teams, and will own complex components of our monthly commission processing cycles. The ideal candidate brings not just experience, but also initiative and the ability to influence improvements across the compensation ecosystem.

In this role, you will:

• Support the end-to-end process for monthly global commission calculations, including plan coding, data validation, payout processing, and payroll reporting
• Serve as a subject matter expert on commission system functionality, data structure, and hierarchy management
• Act as a key partner to Accounting and FP&A, providing reports and insights on quota retirement, commission accruals, and payout forecasting
• Collaborate with Sales Operations to ensure timely delivery and execution of annual and off-cycle commission plans via CaptivateIQ and DocuSign
• Develop and maintain scalable reporting processes and dashboards to support executive and operational decision-making
• Investigate and resolve complex commission-related inquiries, including booking anomalies, system access issues, and plan interpretation requests
• Support and/or lead strategic projects to optimize compensation tools, data workflows, and audit controls

About You:

We are looking for a strong individual contributor with a strategic mindset and a passion for operational excellence. You should have:

• 3+ years of experience processing sales commissions, preferably in a global SaaS or B2B environment
• Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, and complex formulas
• Proven experience with commission plan administration, payout processing, auditing, validation, and hierarchy management
• Experience building and delivering ad hoc and automated reporting for cross-functional stakeholders & leadership
• A track record of driving process improvements and documenting workflows
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a customer service-oriented mindset
• Experience triaging and resolving compensation inquiries across multiple regions and time zones
• Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and proactively identify areas for optimization
• Experience with CaptivateIQ preferred
• Familiarity with Salesforce and DocuSign preferred
• Strong analytical thinking with the ability to identify trends, troubleshoot discrepancies, and support forecasting and accrual analysis

What’s in it for you?

Aptean offers competitive pay and robust benefit plans along with the opportunity to grow your career in a fast-paced, flexible and casual environment, an outstanding opportunity for career development and growth.

About Aptean

At Aptean, our mission is to solve tomorrow’s unique challenges today with unrivaled, purpose-built software and superior customer experiences from people who care. Aptean is a global provider of mission-critical, industry-specific software solutions. Aptean’ s purpose-built ERP and supply chain management solutions help address the unique challenges facing process and discrete manufacturers, distributors and other focused organizations. Aptean’ s compliance solutions are built for companies serving specific markets such as finance, healthcare, biotech and pharmaceuticals, over10,000 highly specialized organizations in more than 20 industries and 80 countries rely on Aptean to streamline their everyday operations. “At Aptean, our global and diverse employee base is our greatest asset. It is through embracing and understanding our differences that we are able to harness our individual power to maximize the success of our customers, our employees and our company.” –TVN Reddy

Aptean pledges to promote a company culture where diversity, equity and inclusion are central. We are committed to applying this principle as we interact with our customers, build our teams, cultivate our leaders and shape a company in which any employee can succeed, regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, sexuality and gender identity, religion, disability or age.

Celebrating our diverse experiences, opinions and beliefs allows us to embrace what makes us unique and to use this as an asset in bringing innovative solutions to our customer base.