Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Analyst role sits in a part of SaaS economics that is often opaque from the outside: how usage-driven revenue translates into contractual costs and margin. Spotify’s subscription and ad-supported model depends on licensing structures that behave differently from typical SaaS COGS, making the FP&A lens here unusually tied to product consumption, partner terms, and long-horizon unit economics.
For a SaaS finance career, the work builds durable skills in scenario modeling, forecasting at scale, and turning complex commercial terms into decision-ready narratives. The cross-functional touchpoints with Legal, Data, Product, and Royalty Operations mirror how modern SaaS businesses run finance as an operating partner, especially when data quality and attribution determine forecast accuracy. Exposure to KPI design and analytical tooling also maps well to finance teams that increasingly blend BI, automation, and strategic planning.
This position tends to suit an early-career analyst who prefers rigorous, detail-oriented work and is comfortable moving between datasets and executive-facing outputs. It will appeal to professionals motivated by contract-driven business models and who want to deepen expertise in cost visibility and profitability drivers rather than only top-line planning.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job 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. 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.
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What You'll Do
- 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.
Who You Are
- 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.
Where You'll Be
- 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.
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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. These ranges may be modified in the future.
Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.
At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can.
