Analyst Licensing Finance, Publishing Deal Analysis

Spotify team

Description

Spotify is seeking a dedicated and driven Analyst to join its Licensing Finance team, focused specifically on music publishing deal analysis. In this role, you will partner with our global Licensing, Legal, Accounting and Finance teams to structure and model financial terms across our music publishing deals.
Through quantitative analysis and strategic thinking, you will play a critical role in supporting decision-making within Spotify’s licensing strategy as well as the company’s overall business planning and forecasting process. This role is based in our New York offices and will report to the Head of Publishing Deal Analysis on the Licensing Finance team.
What You'll Do
  • Leverage financial modeling, scenario analysis, and business insights to support our global Licensing team with the negotiation of Spotify’s music publishing deals
  • Build and own models that analyze and project the financial impact of deal terms across our various geographies
  • Learn to partner closely with Spotify’s Legal and Accounting teams to interpret and implement deal terms, track the financial performance of our licensing deals, and assess risks and opportunities
  • Play a critical role in the FP&A planning and forecasting process by building detailed royalty projection models and translating your book of business into impacts on Spotify’s overall P&L and cash flow expectations

Requirements

Who You Are
  • At least 2 years of experience in a complex and data-driven business environment
  • Bachelor's Degree
  • Familiarity with SaaS and/or content licensing business models is a plus
  • Strong financial modeling skills and business acumen, 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 complex systems and frameworks into well-synthesized narratives and recommendations for diverse audiences
  • Advanced Excel skills with a deep understanding of model architecture, formula efficiency, and pivot tables. Experience with SQL and Business Intelligence (BI) tools are a plus
  • The ability to stay proactive, organized, and dynamic in a rapidly changing environment; there are various high priority workstreams ongoing at once and balance and organization will help you succeed
  • An outgoing, entrepreneurial, and collaborative personality with the ability to develop strong cross-functional relationships
Where You'll Be
  • 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.

Benefits & Perks

Our global benefits
  • Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse.
  • Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success.
  • Global parental leave, six months off - fully paid - for all new parent
  • All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub.
  • Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs.

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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 opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it. Spotify transformed music listening forever when it launched in Sweden in 2008. Discover, manage and share over 50m tracks for free, or upgrade to Spotify Premium to access exclusive features including offline mode, improved sound quality, and an ad-free music listening experience. Today, Spotify is the most popular global audio streaming service with 345m users, including 155m subscribers across 101 markets. We are the largest driver of revenue to the music business today.

Job Details

Posted on Jun 25

New York, NY, USA

Hybrid

Full time

Junior