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FP&A Manager – Ads
Spotify
New York, NY, United States
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We are looking for an outstanding Financial Planning & Analysis Manager to join our Free Monetization FP&A team in New York. You will support both the Global Ad Sales team (GAAT – Strategic Accounts, Agencies and Verticals) and the Partner Solutions team (B2B Marketing team for Ads Sales) .
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:
• Develop a scalable and defensible framework to analyze deal economics for large strategic partnerships for Spotify’s Ads business that allows key stakeholders to make informed decisions based on data.
• Build out, analyze and communicate results of aforementioned strategic deals and articulate impact to overall Ads business based on deal performance.
• Help to operationalize and build out ROI analysis for strategic deals and marketing investment working collaboratively with Business stakeholders, IT and Accounting
• Provide strategic thought leadership and analysis that identify meaningful trends and opportunities across the business.
• Lead the Annual Budgeting and Quarterly Forecasting process including leading a bottom up forecasting process
• 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 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 7-10 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.