Xactly Senior Consultant

[Argano](https://himalayas.app/companies/argano) is seeking an experienced **Xactly Senior Consultant** with a strong focus on Xactly Incent and Xactly Analytics to join our team. The successful candidate will lead the implementation, configuration, and optimization of Xactly solutions, providing clients with cutting-edge tools to manage their incentive compensation programs and gain data-driven insights. This role requires deep technical expertise in Xactly’s Incentive Compensation and Analytics platforms, alongside a solid understanding of Sales Performance Management (SPM) frameworks. ### Desired Skills and Experience ### Xactly Incent Implementation & Configuration: * Lead the end-to-end configuration and implementation of Xactly Incent, including designing compensation plans, setting up quotas, crediting rules, and calculating commission payouts. * Customize Compensation Rules to reflect complex commission structures, such as tiered payouts, accelerators, draws, and recoveries, based on client-specific business requirements. * Configure and manage participant hierarchies, team structures, and territory assignments, ensuring accurate compensation tracking. * Create and maintain calculation formulas, including base pay, bonuses, and multi-variable commissions, using Xactly’s Calculation Engine. * Handle the credit assignment process, including splitting credits between multiple participants or roles and ensuring accurate credit allocation to sales activities. * Configure and manage Plan Documents and Participant Statements, ensuring transparency and clarity in commission reporting. * Perform data loading and integration of various input sources (e.g., CRM data from Salesforce, ERP systems, or manual files) using Xactly's Connect integration tool. * Conduct User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to validate the functionality of the system and ensure the accuracy of calculations. * Set up and manage dispute workflows, providing users with mechanisms to contest commissions and ensuring proper audit trails. ### Xactly Analytics and Reporting: * Develop and configure Xactly Analytics dashboards and custom reports to provide clients with real-time visibility into performance metrics, incentive payouts, and sales effectiveness. * Build advanced reporting frameworks to track critical metrics, such as quota attainment, sales by product, compensation by territory, and team performance. * Utilize Xactly Analytics' data visualization tools to design and present intuitive charts and graphs that highlight key insights for executives and sales leaders. * Configure custom calculation logic for reporting purposes, including aggregate functions like year-over-year comparisons, trend analysis, and commission forecasting. * Implement role-based security in Xactly Analytics to ensure proper data access controls, enabling different levels of visibility for stakeholders (e.g., sales reps, managers, and executives). ### Qualifications * 4+ years of experience in a software development or systems analyst role * Must be comfortable with emerging technologies, learning new software, understanding a data model and an object model, writing SQL queries, and writing design specifications * Excellent written and verbal communication skills * 3-5 years of experience implementing Xactly Incent and Xactly Analytics. ### Technical & Business Requirements * Knowledge of software development & implementation life cycles * Experience with major relational databases (Oracle, SQL Server, etc.) * Proficient in Xactly Incent configuration, including: * Compensation Plan Design: Structuring and configuring incentive compensation plans, defining quotas, crediting rules, and payout methods. * Participant Management: Setting up and managing user hierarchies, teams, roles, and permissions. * Calculation Engine: Building custom formulas, handling complex calculation rules (e.g., weighted commissions, bonuses). * Plan Document Automation: Configuring automated and customizable participant statements and documents. * Quota Management: Configuring and managing quota-setting processes. * Expertise in Xactly Analytics configuration and reporting: * Advanced Data Modeling: Designing and configuring custom reports and dashboards. * Complex Report Building: Developing performance dashboards that aggregate sales data and compensation metrics. Knowledge of the following technologies is considered an asset: * Microsoft SQL Server, Informatica, Xactly, Varicent * Web technologies such as JavaScript, XML, CSS, and HTML * BI Cognos reporting * SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) Originally posted on [Himalayas](https://himalayas.app)