Company Description
When you join Turnitin, you’ll be welcomed into a company that is a recognized innovator in global education. For over 25 years, Turnitin has partnered with educators and institutions to develop learning integrity solutions that recognize the enduring value of critical thinking in a rapidly changing world. Over 16,000 academic institutions, publishers, and corporations use our services in more than 185 countries around the world: Turnitin Feedback Studio, Clarity, Originality, Gradescope, ExamSoft, Similarity, and iThenticate. Protecting the value of an authentic education is at the heart of who we are.
Experience a remote-first culture that empowers you to work with purpose and accountability in a way that best suits you, supported by a comprehensive package that prioritizes your overall well-being. Our diverse community of colleagues are all unified by a shared desire to make a difference in education.
Turnitin is a global organization with team members in over 35 countries including the United States, Mexico, United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, India, and the Philippines.
Job Description
Sitting within the FP&A function, this role will play a critical role across many of our key reporting and insights activities. You will undergo the calculation of commissions and one off incentive payments, provide financial insight across various areas, and support the implementation of company wide dashboards through various tools, predominantly Pigment & Tableau.
Business Partnering is a key element of the role, both across the wider FP&A team and extended to the rest of the business where appropriate. You will be providing key commentaries and analysis to support strategic decision-making and assisting the Finance Leadership team to drive profitable growth. You will also ensure consistency and sharing of data insights across business streams, working closely with sales operations and regional teams.
This role will allow the successful candidate to be a part of a growing business, with deep financial, operational, and commercial exposure. You will add value through supporting sales performance, maintaining incentive plan accuracy, and delivering on both short- and long-term commercial initiatives, focussing on turning data into analytics and insight.
It is imperative that the successful candidate has recent experience working as a commercial analyst or senior finance analyst with strong data visualization skills, especially through Tableau (required) and Pigment (desirable).
Responsibilities:
- Provide a high-quality end-to-end financial partner service to the business, offering expert financial advice and challenging the business to support decision-making that sustains the delivery of strategic and operational revenue planning.
- Build, maintain, and optimize interactive dashboards in Tableau to democratize financial data and provide real-time, actionable performance metrics to sales leaders and executives.
- Manage the end-to-end computation, validation, and reporting of complex, multi-tiered sales commission and incentive structures, ensuring absolute accuracy and alignment with commercial contracts.
- Provide value-adding financial insight, support, and challenge by building effective working relationships at all levels, including senior sales managers and other cross-functional departments in the business.
- Administer and enhance specialized sales incentive platforms (SPIFF) to streamline payouts, model new plans, and improve visibility for the sales team.
- Continually identify and implement improvements to business processes to increase efficiency and ensure all commercial data is captured accurately and in an effective manner.
- Support ad hoc requests for analysis and information from the FP&A Team, Senior Managers & Executives within the bu…