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Financial Planning & Analysis, Analyst
Spotify
New York, NY, United States
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We are looking for an outstanding Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst to join our Free Monetization FP&A team in New York. You will support our Global Ad Sales and Partner Solutions team.
The successful candidate will provide strategic guidance and decision support to Ad Sales, B2B Marketing, Revenue Partnership and Measurement teams. This role requires strong analytical acumen, cognitive flexibility, business modeling skills and communication skills. At the same time, establishing scalable and automated process and working closely with key stakeholders are important for FP&A role.
This role will report into the Director of Ads FP&A and support our stakeholders in Ad Sales and Partner Solutions to ensure they have the data and insight they need to drive business success. The role is highly cross-functional, collaborating with Pricing & Inventory, Analytics, IT, and Accounting to ensure full transparency and alignment to overall strategy.
What you will do:
• Participate in the Annual Budgeting and Quarterly Forecasting process, leading a bottom up vendor forecasting process
• Prepare, analyze and summarize vendor performance data on a monthly, quarterly basis for use by FP&A, accounting, and executive management
• Develop, execute and effectively communicate significant analyses that identify meaningful trends and opportunities across the business.
• Develop and utilize effective performance metrics to identify inefficiencies and to drive process improvements in the vendor selection process
• Provide strong ad hoc financial and business analytic decision support on numerous revenue and cost-saving initiatives, return on investment analyses and/or other assigned projects.
Who you are:
Takes ownership of the accuracy, reliability and relevance of the reporting and analysis
• University degree
• Minimum of 2-4 years relevant experience in an analytical and/or planning role at public company in consulting, banking, tech etc.
• Prior experience of Business Financial Analysis
• Intermediate knowledge of accounting, financial principles and ability to apply in a business setting.
• Business Acumen. Knowledgeable of functional elements which are important for business profitability in order to influence, drive and positively impact business result
• Ability to make decisions and take initiative in the absence of perfect information.
• Ability to build trust and gain support of personnel across organisation.
• High aptitude and enthusiasm for complex problem solving utilizing financial modeling and analysis, including advanced Excel (VBA and SQL skills are a serious plus) and experience working with data cubes
• Some knowledge of online advertising business a plus
• You are passionate about both technology and music
We strongly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and background will lead to a better environment for our employees and a better product for our users and our creators. This is something we value deeply and we encourage everyone to come be a part of changing the way the world listens to music.