
Experience with Tableau and SQL are a plus. Advanced Excel skills with a deep understanding of model architecture, formula efficiency, pivot tables, and macros.Familiarity with SaaS and/or content licensing business models is a plus. 5+ years of relevant financial modeling experience in a sophisticated and data-driven business environment.Contribute to ad hoc analyses and business case modeling that support Spotify’s FP&A, Investor Relations, and overall business planning processes.Build data sets and scalable queries that help systematize various financial analyses, as well as KPI-tracking tools and visualizations that enable senior management to make financial and strategic decisions and monitor business performance.

Help produce a monthly actuals-to-forecast royalty variance analysis and its contribution to gross margin flux identify concrete opportunities that would increase the accuracy of Spotify’s royalty accounting and/or financial planning practices.Employ financial product and project management skills to deliver model improvements and feature improvements that start with Excel “wireframes” and end with code-based, scalable solutions. Collaborate with the Finance Data Science function to perform testing and validation on its Python-scripted royalty consolidation model.Partner with Spotify’s Licensing and Legal functions to translate the latest information around deal negotiations into consolidated P&L expectations. Assist in delivering quarterly forecasts by building detailed royalty projection models across all countries where Spotify is live.Given the importance of royalty payments to Spotify’s business model, you will play a critical role in supporting and steering Spotify’s overall financial strategy through a combination of quantitative analysis, strategic thinking, and data-driven insights.
To handle the data scale and complexity of this unique area, you will leverage the team’s modern combination of Excel and code-based infrastructure to produce sophisticated forecasts that center around accuracy, scalability, flexibility, and speed. In this role, you will partner with various functions across the business to project and analyze Spotify’s royalty payments to record labels, music publishers, and collecting societies around the world. Spotify’s Licensing Finance group is seeking an exceptional Manager to join its team.
