Analyst - Strategic Planning Finance

Spotify’s Strategic Planning Finance group is seeking an exceptional Analyst to join its team. In this role, you will help support a wide cross-section of Spotify’s financial planning and analysis work, ranging from the company’s long-term financial plan to new and individual company initiatives. You will be working closely with incumbent Managers and Senior Analysts on the team.

This role presents a great opportunity for someone looking to learn about the many different facets and segments of Spotify’s business. We are looking for someone that enjoys creative thinking, while bringing practical and scalable improvements to the models and presentations we employ in our day to day work.

• Help produce a monthly actuals-to-forecast variance analysis for Spotify’s new initiatives, and identify actionable opportunities that would improve business outcomes and increase the accuracy of Spotify’s financial planning practices. Given the work with new initiatives, comfortability with ambiguity and a growth mindset are a must.
• Assist in delivering quarterly forecasts for Spotify’s 30+ Legal Entities, requiring close cross-functional partnership with our Accounting, Tax and Treasury teams. These forecasts have many downstream use cases including but not limited to tax rate and tax liability forecasting, entity cash management & optimization, and internal transfer pricing transactions.
• Familiarize yourself with Spotify’s cloud infrastructure and how our activities and customer usage drives cloud costs. Leverage our cloud cost dataset to support monthly variance analysis, quarterly forecasting, as well as ad hoc projects to help the company drive continuous cost efficiencies
• Contribute to ad hoc analyses and business case modeling that support Spotify’s FP&A, Investor Relations, and overall business planning processes.

• 2+ years of relevant financial modeling experience in a complex and data-driven business environment.
• Bachelor's degree is required.
• Advanced MS Excel skills with a deep understanding of model architecture, formula efficiency, pivot tables, and macros.
• Experience with Tableau and SQL are a plus.
• Strong quantitative skills and eye for business, with the ability to drive projects from start to finish. We’re looking for someone who is not afraid of detail and granularity.
• Experience distilling complexity into articulate narratives that cater to diverse audiences, especially those who are not quantitative or technical.
• Intellectual curiosity, the ability to stay organized, and a proactive approach to learning and execution.
• Entrepreneurial, collaborative, and “can-do” personality with a track record for nurturing strong cross-functional relationships.

• This is a hybrid role based in our New York City office (2 to 3 days a week required).
• Working hours? We operate within the EST zone for collaboration.

The United States base range for this position is $64,719-$92,455, plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays, paid sick leave. These ranges may be modified in the future.