What is the Global Sales Incentive group responsible for?
This team supports the Global Advisory Services (GAS) area through providing sales incentives, financial planning, forecasting and oversight of performance partnering with the business on all aspects of their financials to ensure they deliver success and grow. Within this the Financial Analyst focuses on overseeing the sales incentive process for over 25 International Sales Offices and provides additional analysis to enable the business to operate effectively.
What are the ongoing responsibilities of a Financial Analyst?
Provide regular management reporting on sales incentive at an individual, country, regional and international level
Co-ordinate, review and enhance sales incentive reporting across GAS, partnering with human resources, finance, payroll and the business
Partner with the business to create, review and seek approval for regular sales incentive payments
Provide oversight of the Sales Office headcount, providing monthly reporting on budgeted vs. actual results
Meet with Sales Leaders to provide insight into their sales incentive results and opportunities
Provide trend analysis leveraging Excel/Power BI and draw out areas for comment and/or review
Highlight areas of the business where additional focus may be required
Recommend and implement enhancements to current processes
Build and maintain good working relationships with corporate finance and the business
Co-ordinate and support other initiatives as necessary
What ideal qualifications, skills and experience would help someone to be successful?
Bachelors Degree ideally with a finance, business or communication focus
2 years relevant work experience
Understanding of the Asset Management business model, including revenue workflow, the sales process and how technology fits in with the business
sales-related-capacity
Ability to build outstanding relationships with strong facilitation skills
Excellent analytical skills with the vision to create meaningful commentary to sit alongside the numbers
Very detail focused, with the ability to follow through on own items and the confidence to follow up with others on outstanding items
Ability to provide accurate results and strong reconciliation skills
Excellent time management and prioritization skills
Strong technical skills in MS Excel with basic understanding of other technologies like MS Access, Snowflake.
Franklin Templeton offers employees a competitive and valuable range of total rewards-monetary and
non-monetary-designed