Senior Compensation Analyst

About Vanta

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it.

Job Summary

As the Senior Compensation Analyst at Vanta, you will play a key role in ensuring our GTM teams are incentivized appropriately, leading to higher performance and alignment with our company’s strategic objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer all GTM compensation plans within CaptivateIQ, ensuring calculations, components, crediting rules, and participant details are accurately configured and maintained.
• Manage end-to-end monthly and quarterly payout processes, including data validation, calculation reviews, exception handling, and coordination with Finance and People teams to ensure timely and precise payouts.
• Serve as the primary owner of compensation inquiries and escalations, resolving issues related to crediting, commissions, SPIFFs, and policy interpretation in a consistent and timely manner.
• Monitor performance against plan by running routine audits and variance analyses to confirm alignment between sales activity, compensation rules, and resulting payouts.
• Track, validate, and process all GTM SPIFFs and incentive programs, ensuring compliance with program rules and accurate allocation of incentive spend.
• Maintain compensation system governance by ensuring CaptivateIQ reflects up-to-date roles, territories, quotas, eligibility changes, and plan assignments.
• Develop and maintain standardized operating procedures for compensation administration, payout reviews, change management, and escalations to ensure consistency across all GTM teams.