Upwork ($UPWK) is the world's largest freelancing website. Each year $1.7 billion of work happens through Upwork, allowing businesses to get more done and helping professionals break free of traditional time and place boundaries and work anytime, anywhere on projects they love. At Upwork, you'll help build on this momentum. Together, we'll create economic and social value on a global scale, providing a trusted online workplace for businesses to connect with extraordinary talent and work without limits. 

The Upwork Finance team partners with the business to provide data driven decision support and empower the company with insights about the business. As the Senior Manager of Sales Finance, you will own sales planning and financial reporting, lead the end-to-end process of Sales compensation, from quotas to commissions and sales policy/deal review process. You will make a significant impact within our growing organization, as you own the development and management of our cross-functional Sales compensation process and delivery of business analysis of Sales performance. This is a true career opportunity with tremendous professional upside for you, with your true passion for turning data and compensation processes into a strategic asset that scales with the company.

Your Responsibilities:

-Business partner with the SVP of sales and the sales leadership team to build the sales business plan

-Project manage the execution of Sales compensation accruals and payments with cross-functional partners in HR and legal

-Provide mission critical financial reporting sales capacity plans, quota analysis, commission KPIs Build KPIs framework and business metrics for board of director reporting

-Implement and run the bi-annual process for modeling all aspects of Sales quotas and the business outcomes

-Own the pricing, sales, territory and commission policy for the Enterprise sales team

-Model complex Enterprise deals

-Lead the evaluation, selection and implementation of a Sales commission system

What it takes to catch our eye:

-10 years of sales finance, sales operations, sales commission analysis, and/or sales experience

-Experience in building revenue forecasts and business plans for sales-driven models

-Ability to collaborate across functional areas within an organization

-Experience with financial, operational and data visualization systems such as Oracle, Salesforce.com, Looker, Domo

-High proficiency in Excel - building financial and decision support models

-Experience with Google Apps

-Self-starter that adapts well to change in a fast-paced, dynamic workplace

-Clear and effective communication skills, both verbal and written

-Great attitude, willingness to perform and get things done.

What’s really unique about you:

-You understand marketplace / consumptive business models

-You have a passion for the future of work without limits and the freelancer economy

-You understand the growth drivers of a B2B company, with customers that range from small business to large enterprise

Come change how the world works.

At Upwork you’ll help shape the future of work. From our offices in San Francisco, Mountain View and Chicago, together we’re creating exciting new opportunities for a world of professionals. You’ll be part of a vibrant culture built on shared values: Inspire a boundless future of work, Put our community first, Have a bias towards action, and Build amazing teams. Along the way you’ll have fun and enjoy the perks of a people-first company: Work from Home Wednesday's, daily breakfast and lunch, regular in-office happy hours, top-notch benefits … and more. Check out Upwork’s spotlight on The Muse for a glimpse of our daily work/life balance.

Upwork is proudly committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse and inclusive workforce. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we never discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.