Commissions Analyst Cover Letter

I am excited to be applying for the position of commissions analyst. Please accept this letter and the attached resume as my interest in this position.

In my previous role, I was responsible for excel and other application support to city personnel, city managers and local administration.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Good understanding of the Hong Kong compulsory saving scheme (MPF)
• Prior experience in Tax implications involved in commission calculations
• Good understanding of client, product and market characteristics involved in commissions due to intermediaries
• Self-starter, and fast learner who can implement system and process changes
• Strong leadership, problem solving and process improvement skills
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office Products (Excel, Word, Outlook)
• Good with numbers and error checking, have a good intuition of when something looks wrong
• Experience with a global company with geographically dispersed teams and significant presence in APAC

In response to your job posting for commissions analyst, I am including this letter and my resume for your review.

In the previous role, I was responsible for direction and support in the development, design and administration of compensation and benefit plans.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Experience with project structures
• Experience with commissions calculations is advantage
• Preferably 1 additional language either German or French
• Experience or knowledge of various ERP systems (Oracle, JDE, BaaN, Qlikview)
• Hyperion Enterprise, Essbase or similar experience preferred
• Italian at least at upper intermediate level and English
• Confident use of Excel (including formulas), Power Point and Outlook
• German at least at upper intermediate level and English

Please consider me for the commissions analyst opportunity. I am including my resume that lists my qualifications and experience.

Previously, I was responsible for custom Excel reports for Global Account Managers.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Sets goals and drives to their fulfillment
• Strong mathematical and computer-related skills, including Excel
• Analytical, organizational and project management skills to accurately complete detailed data assignments and understand and interpret broad financial concepts and their application
• Collaboration and teamwork – recognizes and supports team goals over individual goals
• Integrity – implements and upholds company values
• Proficient with Microsoft Office (Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Visio)
• Knowledge or background with Salesforce.com, SAP or Financial systems preferred
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills and comfortable with large data-mining/analysis

I would like to submit my application for the commissions analyst opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume.

In my previous role, I was responsible for ad-hoc compensation and commission analysis, modeling of proposed compensation plans and reporting as required.

I reviewed the requirements of the job opening and I believe my candidacy is an excellent fit for this position. Some of the key requirements that I have extensive experience with include:

• Comfortable with learning company specific customized data warehouse
• Experience of Varicent
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills, at least with pivot tables, macros and vlookup formulas
• Experience with SAP, OBIEE, SFDC preferable
• High energy professional with a history of attainment of deliverables in a timely manner
• Demonstrable experience in an analytical role with strong Excel skills
• Commissions experience in a technology company or similar environment essential
• Excellent level of analytical and problem solving skills

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the commissions analyst position.

In the previous role, I was responsible for analytical support in the design and development of all compensation and benefit plans.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Italian or French or Spanish or German (or a combination of those) at least at upper intermediate level
• Able to effectively work within a team to expedite completion of projects with other functional groups including accounting, financial planning, sales and marketing, sales operation and HR
• Works autonomously but provides guidance to other team members as needed, escalating items when needed to management
• Proficient in Xactly Incent or similar application
• Knowledge of working with Oracle application is an advantage
• Knowledge of MicroStrategy reporting tool is recommended
• Work in a team effort, but take individual responsibilities to perform
• Very strong Excel and proficiency in Access