Senior Manager, Finance Commissions

About this role

We strongly prefer candidates who are currently located in or near the designated job location. Candidates outside the area should apply only if they are committed to relocating prior to their start date and have the legal right to work in the job location.

Cohesity is a leader in AI-powered data security and management. Aided by an extensive ecosystem of partners, Cohesity makes it easy to secure, protect, manage, and get value from data — across the data center, edge, and cloud. Cohesity helps organizations defend against cybersecurity threats with comprehensive data security and management capabilities, including immutable backup snapshots, AI-based threat detection, monitoring for malicious behavior, and rapid recovery at scale.

We’ve been named a Leader by multiple analyst firms and have been globally recognized for Innovation, Product Strength, and Simplicity in Design.

Join us on our mission to shape the future of our industry.

This is the modeling truth layer for how Cohesity pays and sizes its global sales force. As a senior individual contributor on the GTM Finance team, you own the financial models that sit underneath sales compensation, sales capacity, and commission expense. You will build the financial modeling that comp-design decisions are made against, own the   Rep   Ramped Equivalent (RRE) capacity methodology that drives quota and hiring, and forecast commission expense at a precision the CRO, CFO, and Board can act on.  

This is a quantitative, build-heavy role, not a reporting seat. The work is to convert ambiguous GTM questions into defensible models, and defensible models into a clear story for executive decision-makers. You will own the financial truth   behind sales comp   design decisions, and you will be the person who can explain, defend, and stress-test the numbers in front of leadership.  

HOW YOU'LL SPEND YOUR TIME HERE:

Sales Compensation Financial Modeling  

• Own the financial modeling behind compensation plan design:   quantify cost of sales, payout curves, and margin impact across every seller role, plan, and segment.  

• Model accelerator and multiplier structures and quantify their cost; show how attainment-band multipliers move the effective commission rate before a plan is approved.  

• Quantify the economics of specialized incentive structures, including consumption / PPU treatment and migration incentives, and surface the dollar impact of classification choices.  

• Run scenario and sensitivity analysis on proposed plan changes, translating design options into cost   vs   coverage tradeoffs for Finance leadership sign-off.  

• This role owns the financial modeling, costing, and pressure   testing that design decisions are made against.  

Capacity, Quota & RRE Modeling  

• Own the RRE ( Rep   Ramped Equivalent) per   head   methodology :   the productivity-weighted capacity model that bridges corporate targets to quota and hiring.  

• Maintain segment-specific ramp curves (e.g., longer Enterprise ramp vs. faster Commercial ramp) and the tenure-bucket logic that drives weighted capacity.  

• Build the forward capacity view across TTM productivity, seasonality phasing, and attrition (planned terminations, modeled attrition, and backfill ramp restart).  

• Produce the Gap   to   Plan output that is surfaced to the CRO and Board across plan, modeled, and risk-adjusted lenses.  

• Run the quota and capacity reviews (AE / SE quota, segment coverage), stress-testing   attainability   and the cost of closing coverage gaps.  

Commission Forecasting & Expense Planning  

• Own the commission expense model:   forecast commission cost against pipeline, attainment, and bookings mix at split level.  

• Track the loaded comp ratio (commission as a percent of Sales and Renewal ACV) and benchmark it against industry and prior periods.  

• Build early-warning signals where commission expense is tracking ahead of plan or   attainment, and   quantify the exposure in dollars.  

• Reconcile modeled commission to actuals and partner with   Accounting   on accrual and the ASC 340-40   capitalized-commission   view.  

Executive & Board-Level Analysis  

• Build the bridges, decks, and analytical narratives on comp, capacity, and commission for CRO, CFO, and Board consumption.  

• Distill complex modeling into a clear, defensible story; lead with the decision, not the spreadsheet, and pre-empt the obvious second question.  

• Produce the   single source   of   truth views that leadership uses for resource   allocation and investment calls.  

• Support weekly CRO and executive sales reviews with   accurate , fast   turn analysis.  

Cross-Functional Coordination & Data Integrity  

• Operate as   the connective tissue across Sales,   RevOps , Sales Compensation, Accounting, and FP&A on planning, validation, and alignment.  

• Drive shared assumptions and definitions in recurring sales   comp working sessions and planning cycles.  

• Govern the integrity of the data feeding the models across   Claude,   Salesforce, Clari, Snowflake, and the planning stack.  

• Use AI-native tooling to automate recurring modeling and reporting and reduce manual   error risk.  

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a quantitative field.  

• 6+ years in Sales Finance, FP&A, or Strategic Finance, with direct ownership of compensation, quota, capacity, or commission modeling at a high-growth technology or SaaS company.  

• Demonstrated mastery of SaaS GTM metrics: bookings, ACV, ARR, attainment, productivity, and cost of sales, and how each flow to the financials.  

• Expert financial modeling skills with the ability to build scalable, auditable models from ambiguous inputs, not   maintaining   templates.  

• Proven ability to influence senior cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority.  

• Direct experience preparing analysis for executive and Board-level audiences.  

WE'D LOVE TO TALK TO YOU IF YOU HAVE MANY OF THE FOLLOWING:

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