Spotify's Product and Technology Finance team is seeking an Analyst to support the health of Streaming Delivery cloud costs, which power every play-button press globally. The role aims to translate technical usage into financial insights to help Spotify stream efficiently at scale.
Requirements
- Advanced MS Excel skills with a deep understanding of model architecture, formula efficiency, pivot tables
- Comfortable writing SQL/BigQuery queries
- Exposure to cloud‑infrastructure economics is a plus but not required
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain forecasts for streaming delivery cloud spend (Primarily GCP, but also AWS, Azure, CDN, SMS etc.) across the company
- Leverage our cloud cost dataset to support the monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close processes, including variance analyses and reporting
- Prepare and present financial reports and insights to senior management
- Identify trends, variances, risk and opportunities in the company’s overall cloud spend
- Partner with Cost Engineering and cross-Mission engineering leaders to map technical drivers (vCPU‑hours, storage TB, data‑transfer GB, GCP projects, etc.) to business concepts that non-technical stakeholders can grasp (feature launches, content ingestion, playback requests)
- Build scenario models for new product/feature initiatives, stress‑testing assumptions, highlighting risks and sensitivities as part of the overall business case
- Automate and improve tooling: enhance BigQuery‑linked Sheets, dashboards, and AI‑driven workflows that reduce manual effort and increase insight velocity
Other
- 2+ years of experience in FP&A, strategic finance, or relevant financial modeling experience in a complex and data-driven business environment
- Able to distill complexity into articulate narratives that cater to diverse audiences, e.g. engineers and finance leaders
- Proven collaborator who builds trust with a “can-do” personality
- This role is based in New York, NY.
- We ask that you come into the office 2-3 days per week.
