Senior Business Consultant

Job Description About Intangent: We are North America's fastest growing Sales Performance Management consultancy. We've grown rapidly by working with the best and brightest in our industry. Our high performing consulting team and market-leading vendor partners reflect Intangent's unwavering focus on best execution in customer experience. Visit us at https://intangent.com/ Job Description We are seeking an experienced Xactly 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) About Us Argano is the first of its kind: a digital consultancy totally immersed in high-performance operations. We steward enterprises through ever-evolving markets, empowering them with transformative strategies and technologies to exceed customer expectations, unlock commercial innovation, and drive optimal efficiency and growth. Argano is an equal-opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability status.