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Melody Kurtz

Tracy,CA

Summary

Results-driven compensation professional with strong focus on data analysis, compensation strategy, and market benchmarking. Adept at fostering team collaboration and delivering impactful results, ensuring alignment with organizational goals. Known for adaptability and reliability in dynamic environments, leveraging skills in financial modeling, regulatory compliance, and stakeholder communication to drive effective compensation solutions.

Overview

25
25
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr. Compensation Analyst

Workday
03.2024 - 06.2025
  • Support/drive/coordinate GMT compensation plan and strategies
  • Manage monthly variable pay calculations and collaborate with the payroll team to ensure accurate commission payouts
  • Collaborate with leadership to identify improvements/enhancements in business processes
  • Review commission payment report for completeness and accuracy to commission plans as outlined in the plan while resolving reconciliation issues
  • Develop reports for compiling, preparing, analyzing, and presenting data as it relates to variable compensation
  • Lead and manage integration and automation project – Key driver to build the process documentation, perform UAT/PROD testing
  • Ensure SOX compliance in an increasingly complex and and dynamic business environment
  • Collaborate with business process owners and SOX control team members
  • The management execution controls
  • Develop and present business insights to Sr. Sales and Finance Management to influence comp plan design and efficiency
  • Develops written process documents needs to effectively run all compensation related processes and ensure fair practices as business needs and circumstances evolve
  • Collaborate with sales and key partners to address and resolve compensation issues

Sr. Compensation Manager

Nevro
11.2022 - 12.2023
  • Mange and review Global Compensation (US & International)
  • Work closely with Sales Management, FP&A, Human Resources and Legal to assist in the development, implementation and maintenance of all sales compensation and incentive plans that meet the strategic objectives of the company at the Global level
  • Manage projects, such as data analysis, process improvement, report building, commissions modeling
  • Drive and lead the development Anaplan Compensation Systems (intensive comp plans review, system design, data testing and training)
  • Drive Comp Finance to provide accurate and timely payments to Sales employees.
  • FP&A duty to calculate/budget/forecast accurate and timely commission accrual and monthly payouts
  • Collaborate with Sales Operations and Sales Leadership to improve/setup compensation plan design
  • Drive process improvements and efficiencies while being able to meet monthly close schedules
  • Manage projects, such as data analysis, process improvement, report building, commissions modeling
  • Gather, analyze, prepare, and summarize appropriate recommendations to solve operational issues
  • Support commission SOX audit, system testing, resolve data issues with cross functional team and consultants
  • Drive system data consolidation/reconciliation: Anaplan, Salesforce and Tableau
  • Lead sales commission SOX audit

Sr. Sales Finance Analyst (FP &A)

10X Genomics
11.2019 - 10.2022
  • Built in-depth modeling for compensation modeling in excel
  • Partner with compensation colleagues across Sales organization to build out new commission payout process will align finance, sales and audit guidelines
  • Assist in preparation and execution of compensation structure, pay reviews, compensation programs and communications.
  • Manage Sales HC and job profiles and compensation grades/ranges to effectively position new hires and internal movement in Anaplan
  • FP&A Duties included headcount planning, forecast, budgeting, expense QoQ & YoY analysis
  • Lead annual market pricing for sales by reviewing job content and provide guidance on target pay and pay mix by sales role and geographic location.
  • Conduct sales incentive and quota attainment analytics and make recommendations to support sales talent strategy.
  • Support the global compensation team on corporate bonus plan designs, bonus administration, and other duties as assigned.
  • Partner with Sales Operations and FP&A to review commissions and/or sales incentives regularly and evaluate incentive plan effectiveness.
  • Be a business-facing sales compensation expert responsible for sales compensation plan design, pay for performance programs, process improvement and drive alignment across distinct sales teams specifically designed to motivate and retain sales talent globally.
  • Lead quarterly sales pay review processes for sales teams globally.
  • Empathize with the needs of your clients, be curious about what they are trying to do, are creative and analytical in your problem solving, and pragmatic in your approach.

Sr. Analyst, Global Sales Finance/ Project Manager

Oracle
06.2013 - 10.2019
  • Identify, design, and manage executive KPIs and provide actionable insights that drive decisions for senior management
  • Lead cross-functional task force teams to analyze order/deal data and drive improvements across global line of business to increase overall operation success
  • Create and deliver data-driven executive presentations - Used and review by stakeholders globally
  • Develop and weave a story around data and influence key decision makers on strategy
  • Leverage Oracle BI systems to automate reports and scale current/future processes whenever possible
  • Gather, interpret, and synthesize oracle deals for meaning and communicating results to the appropriate parties within our business context
  • Identify opportunities for business process improvements and make recommendations
  • Build excel models for complex reporting to support Ad-Hoc request for executives
  • Drive/develop manual reporting to be automated in Oracle BI interface
  • Identify as team lead who reviews and signs off KPI quarterly and yearly results
  • IT reporting Project management:
  • Develop, update and maintain project plan
  • Manage, lead project team for project activities including analysis, design and development, testing, assigning tasks, implementation and postmortem analysis
  • Manage end-to-end project delivery of multiple projects with highly complex business challenges and reporting
  • Project point of contact for communications, milestones and review briefings
  • Interact with necessary stakeholders/team members to manage project scope and identify, evaluate, communicate, and escalate issues
  • Communicate status of project within and across functional teams
  • Review BRD requirements and build or assess initial test plans

Sr. Financial Analyst (FP&A)

Dell
04.2012 - 06.2013
  • Designed and created financial models that can be used by CEO and CFO for decision making and strategic planning
  • Provided value added analysis to highlight opportunities or issues to CEO and CFO
  • Analyzed margin impact from partner ecosystem
  • Partnered with controllers and functional leads to develop detailed forecasts for expense, headcount, and capital expenditures
  • Assisted in driving annual planning process and managing monthly deadlines
  • Standardized reporting packages for Operational and Quarterly Business Reviews
  • Developed presentations for executive leadership and Board of Directors
  • Performed ad hoc analysis and modeling for senior management
  • Key liaison with the broader VCE finance and accounting teams

Sr. BIS Financial/Business Analyst (IT)

Pepsico Inc - Global IT finance
10.2007 - 04.2012
  • Drove and provided profit and cost analysis to drive corporate hardware and software IT spending for entire PepsiCo organization
  • Managed and drove department projects - period forecast, budget and variance analysis
  • Created KPI and Dashboard reporting to drive productivity
  • Led and drove critical business and financial projects and reporting by providing a project plan, business scope, and risk analysis (liaison: finance, operation, IT and accounting)
  • Drove major financial system migration, created more effective reporting and business rules with new system capabilities to improve overall period analysis and forecast

Finance Manager

Frito-Lay (US Headquarter)
10.2005 - 10.2007
  • Supported Frito-Lay profitability date warehouse by publishing and analyzing P&L and provided trending analysis
  • Successfully partnered with IT team to automate business ad-hoc reports into the profitability data warehouse
  • Researched and identified P&L cost allocation issues at product/customer/ route/ geography level
  • Drove and identified more process opportunities to increase data accuracy and significantly reduce time required for month end close work

Revenue Analyst

Cisco Systems
11.2002 - 12.2003

Financial Auditor

BDO Seidman, LLP
08.2000 - 09.2001

Education

Bachelor of Science - International Business

Santa Clara University
Santa Clara, California
06.2000

Skills

  • System Skills: Xactly, Workday, Salesforce, Anaplan, Tableau, Oracle Financial, NetSuite, and advance level in Excel
  • Data Warehouse: Data integration/automation, data testing and develop KPI reporting
  • Project Management: Strong in collaboration, time management, organization, problem solving and adaptability
  • Advance in KPI and sales commission modeling (plans, quota, logics, and headcounts)
  • Other core skills: FP&A, Financial budgeting and HC planning, accounting B/S and IS, financial audit and SOX audit

Language Skills

Fluent in English and Chinese (Mandarin)

Accomplishments

  • Create KPI reports to drive the revenue and business efficiency (Oracle)
  • Develop KPI models to eliminate reporting turnaround time - commission payout model (10X)
  • Commission Payroll Automation – document, executive, coordinate, test and implement (Workday)
  • Project Management – GTM and System Integration (Workday)

Timeline

Sr. Compensation Analyst

Workday
03.2024 - 06.2025

Sr. Compensation Manager

Nevro
11.2022 - 12.2023

Sr. Sales Finance Analyst (FP &A)

10X Genomics
11.2019 - 10.2022

Sr. Analyst, Global Sales Finance/ Project Manager

Oracle
06.2013 - 10.2019

Sr. Financial Analyst (FP&A)

Dell
04.2012 - 06.2013

Sr. BIS Financial/Business Analyst (IT)

Pepsico Inc - Global IT finance
10.2007 - 04.2012

Finance Manager

Frito-Lay (US Headquarter)
10.2005 - 10.2007

Revenue Analyst

Cisco Systems
11.2002 - 12.2003

Financial Auditor

BDO Seidman, LLP
08.2000 - 09.2001

Bachelor of Science - International Business

Santa Clara University

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