Analyst, Licensing Finance – FP&A
About the position
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. You will partner closely with Licensing, Legal, Royalty Operations, Data, Product, and Finance teams to model complex agreements, forecast music costs, and provide data-driven insights that inform high-impact business decisions.
This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of music, finance, data, and strategy in a fast-paced and highly collaborative environment.
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.
Benefits
• 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
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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. You will partner closely with Licensing, Legal, Royalty Operations, Data, Product, and Finance teams to model complex agreements, forecast music costs, and provide data-driven insights that inform high-impact business decisions.
This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of music, finance, data, and strategy in a fast-paced and highly collaborative environment.
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.
Benefits
• 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
Apply tot his job
Apply To this Job