Technology Business Analyst Cloud Infrastructure

What You’ll Do

• Create accurate data and insights supporting engineering, finance, procurement, and external partners, enabling decisions by framing cloud costs with tailored context and aesthetical visualizations
• Operate and improve forecasting and reporting for our streaming delivery cost, mainly consisting of cloud billing, crafting a story around variances and trends to facilitate communication with engineering leads and finance partners
• Lead communication between engineering and finance around streaming delivery costs (cloud, content delivery, authentications, and other technology costs) providing comments on metrics
• Engage with Accounting and Sourcing colleagues to ensure accurate financial month-end close process for streaming delivery costs
• Contribute to improvements, implementation, integration, and roll-out of Spotify’s analytics tooling, critical metrics, and use of external billing solutions
• Own changes end-to-end, defining functional and technical requirements on datasets and analytics support, including doing hands-on configuration and quality assurance
• Provide front-line support and training to cloud cost analytics users within and outside of the team
• Collaborate with external vendors to operate and improve cost and billing services and tooling, including reconciliation across sourcing, consumption, and invoicing

Who You Are

• Deeply passionate about analyses, data science, and optimization
• Have a shown understanding of financial planning, record-to-report, and segregation of duties
• Have hands-on experience within cloud financial management, as well as other types of platforms and infrastructure, including how to work with allocations and spend labeling/tagging to increase visibility
• Outspoken with executive-level management and senior financial and engineering partners, both internally and with vendors
• Have understanding, and ideally hands-on experience, of tooling used to enable analytics, either/in the shape of SaaS supporting FinOps (such as Cloudability/Apptio, CloudHealth, etc) and/or configuring dashboards and reports platforms (such as Tableau, Looker Studio, BigQuery, etc) to fulfill these needs – ideally also of financial systems (such as Adaptive, NetSuite, Coupa)
• Value developing the team you are part of, practicing a growth attitude, and like finding yourself to be a go-to person for technical matters
• Appreciate working with diverse teams and influencing organizational health, strategy, tactics, and execution in an energetic manner