# Analyst

**Company**: Spotify
**Location**: New York, NY
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $67,172 - $95,960
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Spotify is seeking a highly analytical and motivated Analyst to join its Licensing Finance team within FP&A.

In this role, you will help shape and evaluate the financial impact of Spotify's major label licensing agreements while also supporting royalties forecasting and performance analysis that directly influence the long-term economics of our music business.

This role sits at the center of deal strategy and cost forecasting, connecting negotiated contract terms to real-world usage, payouts, and margin outcomes.

### Responsibilities

- Evaluate and model global major label licensing agreements, partnering closely with Licensing, Accounting, and Legal teams.

- Build and own robust financial models, including scenario and sensitivity analyses, to assess deal economics, margin impact, and long-term trade-offs.

- Translate complex contract structures into clear financial implications and produce executive-ready materials for Finance and Business leadership.

- Support music royalties forecasting processes, incorporating the financial impacts of deal-specific terms.

- Analyze monthly and quarterly royalty and margin performance, identifying key variances versus forecast and explaining underlying drivers.

- Partner with Data and Engineering teams to improve forecasting accuracy and cost visibility.

- Develop and track KPIs that monitor deal performance and long-term cost structure impacts.

- Contribute to process improvements, automations, and analytical tooling that enhance both deal analysis and forecasting efficiency.

### Requirements

- 2+ years of professional experience in highly analytical environments such as consulting, investment banking, deal analysis, strategic finance, or data analytics.

- Advanced SQL skills and demonstrated experience working with large, complex datasets.

- Strong financial modeling capabilities with a clear understanding of scenario analysis and business trade-offs.

- Experience leveraging AI tools to enhance analytical productivity (e.g., Cursor, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini).

- Exceptional attention to detail paired with strong judgment around prioritization and materiality.

- Clear and structured communicator, able to translate complex analysis into actionable insights for non-technical stakeholders.

- Intellectual curiosity and a desire to build deep expertise in the music business and licensing economics.

### Location and Benefits

- This role is based in New York, NY.

- We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in-person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home. We ask that you come in 2-3 times per week.

- The United States base range for this position is $67,172 - $95,960 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.

## Skills

### Required
- SQL
- financial modeling
- data analysis
- AI tools

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