Financial Systems Analyst - Platform

About this role

The Platform team creates the technology that enables Spotify to learn quickly and scale easily, enabling rapid growth in our users and our business around the globe. Spanning many disciplines, we work to make the business work; creating the infrastructure, tooling, frameworks, and capabilities needed to welcome a billion customers. The Oracles sit at the heart of Spotify’s financial infrastructure, building and evolving the systems that power our subledger and accounting lifecycle. From accruals to reconciliation and ledger integrations, the team is driving a broader FinE initiative to standardize and scale how accounting flows across Spotify. You’ll work closely with engineers, finance partners, and product teams to bring clarity, speed, and accuracy to complex financial systems.

Act as the embedded accounting domain expert within Financial Engineering R&D, contributing to day-to-day product and engineering decisions

Guide system and product design to ensure accounting best practices and controls are built into the foundation

Translate complex accounting requirements into scalable, structured system inputs across the subledger lifecycle

Partner closely with engineers and product teams to shape flows for accruals, adjustments, reconciliation, and rebooking

Contribute to the development lifecycle by informing, prototyping, and validating solutions for our core accounting platform

Analyze existing accounting flows to separate core requirements from legacy technical constraints

Help define and standardize accounting logic across systems like MoneyBooker, IOU Batcher, and NetSuite integrations

Break down ambiguous financial and technical challenges into simple, practical solutions You have 5+ years of experience in operational or technical accounting within a medium to large organization

You have a strong understanding of accrual-based accounting, subledger processes, and accounting best practices

You are experienced in partnering with technical teams and can clearly communicate accounting concepts in a systems context

You are comfortable working in data-driven or system-heavy environments and are curious about how systems operate

You bring a structured, analytical approach to problem solving and are comfortable navigating ambiguity

You have experience working with ERP systems, with NetSuite as a plus

You are interested in developing your technical skillset and working more closely with engineering

You enjoy working at the intersection of finance, systems, and product in evolving environments This role is based in Toronto.

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.