Senior Revenue Accountant, Advertising
Own revenue accounting operations and month-end close for Spotify’s global advertising business, ensuring IFRS-compliant reporting while improving scalable processes and systems. Requires accounting experience, ERP knowledge, strong analytical skills, and a bachelor’s degree.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Coordinate accounting across Spotify’s advertising revenue businesses, including programmatic, direct-sold, podcast, and emerging ad products.
- Execute and review month-end close activities, including revenue and deferred revenue journal entries, account reconciliations, and fluctuation analyses.
- Support accurate and timely advertising financial reporting under IFRS and SOX control requirements.
- Identify process improvements and partner with Engineering and business stakeholders to scope, test, and implement scalable accounting processes and system enhancements.
- Develop and refine revenue accounting processes for new advertising revenue streams, ad formats, platform integrations, and partnerships.
- Collaborate with Technical Accounting, Finance, Legal, Sales, Sales Operations, FP&A, Accounts Receivable, Tax, Financial Engineering, and other teams.
- Prepare internal and external audit support, assess accounting risks, and test system releases affecting advertising revenue reporting.
- Support acquisitions, ERP and system implementations, and special projects.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in revenue accounting, accounting operations, general ledger accounting, or public accounting.
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or equivalent higher education.
- Knowledge of IFRS, revenue recognition principles, and accounting controls.
- Exposure to ITGC and/or SOX environments.
- Experience with NetSuite or a comparable ERP such as Oracle or SAP.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, collaboration, prioritization, and deadline-management skills.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience in digital advertising, ad tech, digital media, entertainment, or another large-scale business.
- CPA or CA credential.
- Experience with SQL, BigQuery, or AI-enabled tools.
Skills
Revenue Accounting, Ifrs, Revenue Recognition, Sox, Itgc, NetSuite, Oracle, SAP, SQL, BigQuery, ERP Systems, Account Reconciliations
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