Assistant Manager, Distribution Compensation & Operations Excellence

Role SummaryThis role offers the opportunity to manage end-to-end distribution compensation operations while using data, automation, and process improvement to strengthen operational efficiency and controls. You will contribute to effective business decision-making through compensation analytics, management reporting, and actionable insights. The role also provides broad exposure to cross-functional stakeholders while supporting transformation initiatives, system enhancements, and operational governance. You will have the opportunity to apply your analytical and digital skills to improve the accuracy, efficiency, and scalability of compensation operations.Position Responsibilities:Compensation Management: Manage end-to-end distribution compensation and campaign processes, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant calculation, validation, reconciliation, and payment.Data Analysis & Insights: Analyze compensation, distribution performance, and operational data to identify trends, variances, exceptions, and improvement opportunities, and translate findings into actionable business insights.Reporting & Presentation: Prepare accurate and timely management reports, dashboards, and executive-level presentations, transforming complex data into clear insights, key messages, and actionable recommendations for management and relevant stakeholders.Automation & Digital Enablement: Identify and automate recurring manual activities across data preparation, validation, calculation, reconciliation, and reporting to improve efficiency, accuracy, and scalability.Process Optimization: Review end-to-end workflows, conduct root-cause analysis, identify control gaps and inefficiencies, and drive process simplification, standardization, and continuous improvement.Project Management: Manage and support compensation, Operations Excellence, and transformation initiatives, including requirements gathering, project planning, milestone tracking, stakeholder coordination, risk management, testing, and implementation.System, Data & Process Governance: Support system enhancements and maintain strong data quality, validation controls, SOPs, process documentation, reconciliation mechanisms, and audit trails.Stakeholder, Risk & Governance Management: Collaborate with Distribution, Finance, IT, Actuarial, HR, and other relevant stakeholders to resolve operational issues and support audit, risk, compliance, and governance requirements.Required Qualifications:Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Accounting, Mathematics, Data Analytics, or a related discipline.Approximately 3–5 years of relevant experience in distribution or sales compensation, operations, business analytics, process improvement, project management, or automation.Strong knowledge of compensation, commissions, incentives, reconciliation, variance analysis, and operational controls.Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, with working knowledge of Power BI, Power Query, Power Automate, or similar tools.Strong analytical, reporting, presentation, problem-solving, and process improvement skills.Good project and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in insurance or financial services.Professional certification in data analytics, process improvement, automation, or project management.When you join our team:We’ll empower you to learn and grow the career you want.We’ll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.As part of our global team, we’ll support you in shaping the future you want to see.