Senior Manager, Licensing Finance - FP&A

Job Description

Spotify is seeking an outstanding Senior Manager to join its Licensing Finance team within FP&A. As a leader on the team responsible for analyzing and forecasting music royalties, the largest cost driver for the business, you will play a versatile role and become the subject-matter expert across several areas: Margin & Profitability Analysis, Music Royalties, Consolidated Long-Range Planning (LRP), and Model Automation.

You will work closely with global, cross-functional teams to tackle critically important and highly-visible work, ranging from optimizing our royalty rate cards with music rights holders to modeling out the impact of a significant company bet on our long-term financials.

This role is unique within the FP&A team in that it leverages an assumed proficiency in music royalty analysis to enable other parts of its scope: ownership of Spotify's LRP model, driving model automation in our proprietary, internally-built ''Forecasting Hub'', and driving the vision for how financial forecasting at Spotify should work.

To deliver on this directive, you will manage a small team and will work out of our New York offices, reporting to the Head of Licensing Finance.
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What You'll Do
• Own all music royalty forecasting and analysis for Spotify with an ''always-on'' demeanor; Spotify operates in a constantly evolving environment and our forecasting keeps pace with that industry reality
• Build multi-year P&L and cash flow forecasts for Spotify's consolidated business; the output will help derive and prioritize company targets, inform company-wide OKRs, and facilitate valuation / year-end close exercises
• Lead and manage cross-functional work streams in collaboration with Product, Engineering, and FP&A, ''program managing'' the delivery and strategy around our proprietary ''Forecasting Hub''; this is a next generation, in-house forecasting tool designed to run financial forecasts with minimal user friction and maximum speed
• Architect the future of FP&A's full stack forecasting platform; imagine a platform that can produce an accurate forecast days after accounting close with the follow-on ability for anyone in FP&A to perform sensitivity analysis within minutes - that's the goalpost

Who You Are
• 7+ years of professional working experience, preferably in investment banking, management/operational consulting, or FP&A at a technology company
• Strong spreadsheet and modeling skills are required
• Competence with SQL is required
• Experience performing analysis on large datasets, Tableau, and Python are a plus
• Proficiency with three statement financials and working capital dynamics is required
• Strong work ethic with the ability to fluidly transition from leading and managing work to being able to individually contribute (''hands on keyboard'' skills) as situations and timelines require
• Sharp attention to detail but an eye towards using the 80/20 rule to address problems including the ability to communicate and empathize across a wide range of audiences, spanning on-the-ground to executive partners
• Very strong project management, planning and organizational skills including the ability to lead on multiple projects simultaneously and deliver work under tight timelines
• Deep intellectual curiosity with a desire to constantly understand; one extra question will lead to one extra learning, but hundreds of new ideas when combined with every learning before it

Where You'll Be
• This is a hybrid role based in our New York City offices (2 to 3 days a week is required)
• Working hours? We operate within the Eastern time zone for collaboration

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The United States base range for this position is $128,668-$183,812, 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.

Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world's most popular audio streaming subscription service.

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