What are the responsibilities and job description for the Systems Manager - Financial Systems Operations position at Spotify?
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.
You’ll join the Financial Engineering (FinE) alliance, where we build and run the systems that power Spotify’s global financial operations. Our Financial Systems Operations team sits at the heart of this ecosystem, ensuring our core SaaS platforms run smoothly and scale with the business. You’ll lead a group of analysts who keep things moving day to day while continuously improving how we support Finance, Procurement, Accounting, and Legal partners.
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Lead, manage, and develop a team of Financial Systems Analysts, fostering a high-performance culture focused on service excellence, quality, impact, and growth.
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Own the operational health of Spotify's financial and legal SaaS suite, including NetSuite, Coupa, Concur, Blackline, and Graphite Connect, ensuring consistent, reliable support for our stakeholders.
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Manage and continuously improve the team's operations and impact — overseeing Jira queue management, triage frameworks, SLA performance, and escalation pathways.
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Define and track team KPIs and operational metrics, using data to drive resourcing decisions, prioritisation, and ongoing process improvements.
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Partner with Finance, Procurement, Accounting, Audit, Legal, and Engineering stakeholders to understand evolving system and regulatory requirements and translate them into operational plans.
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Drive a culture of continuous improvement — identifying opportunities for process optimisation, automation, and self-service to scale our systems as Spotify grows. Including leveraging opportunities to automate processes using the latest automation / AI tooling. And manage using an impact-first approach to sharpen the team’s focus and connect the team's work to work that aligns with company priorities, valuing outcomes over activity.
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You have 6 years of experience in financial systems administration or operations, with deep expertise across ERP and financial SaaS platforms — direct experience with NetSuite, Coupa, Concur, or Blackline strongly preferred.
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You have 2 years of experience managing a team, with a demonstrated ability to hire, develop, and retain analysts across different levels of seniority.
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You are a natural coach and mentor — you take genuine pride in growing the people around you and creating the conditions for your team to do their best work.
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You have a strong operational mindset: you are comfortable owning a queue-driven support environment, setting standards for quality and throughput, and improving the systems and processes your team relies on.
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You have strong functional knowledge of financial processes including Procure-to-Pay (PTP), Record-to-Report (RTR), and Order-to-Cash (OTC) in a multi-subsidiary, multi-currency enterprise environment.
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You have working knowledge of SOX frameworks and IT General Controls, particularly as they relate to ERP and SaaS system change management.
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You have demonstrated the ability to build and maintain effective cross-functional relationships with both technical partners and senior business stakeholders.
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You are comfortable with ambiguity and can translate high-level goals into practical team priorities and delivery plans.
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You communicate with clarity and transparency — your team, stakeholders, and peers always know where things stand.
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You have experience working with Agile methodologies and are comfortable using tools such as Jira for operational tracking.
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Bonus: familiarity with leveraging Generative AI in your day-to-day role.
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Bonus: accounting qualification (CPA or equivalent) or significant accounting experience.
- 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.