Overview:
Spotter is a platform for Creators, providing services and software designed to accelerate growth for the world’s best Creators and brands. Creators working with Spotter can access the capital, knowledge, community, and personalized AI software products they need to succeed. With unique knowledge of how Creators work, the resources they need to grow, and the challenges they face, Spotter is empowering top YouTube Creators to succeed.
Spotter has already deployed over $940 million to YouTube Creators to reinvest in themselves and accelerate their growth, with plans to reach $1 billion in investment by 2024. With a premium catalog that spans over 725,000 videos, Spotter generates more than 88 billion monthly watch-time minutes, delivering a unique scaled media solution to Advertisers and Ad Agencies that is transparent, efficient, and 100% brand safe. For more information about Spotter, please visit https://spotter.com.
What You’ll Do
In this newly created role, you will join a collaborative financial and accounting team that is cross trained to serve the various business functions. Your ability to build meaningful relationships, deliver insightful financial analysis, and accurate and timely reporting will bring a positive impact on the decisions made by leaders and colleagues alike.
The ideal candidate will work effectively with internal business partners and cross-functional teams, possess strong communication skills, have the ability to shift gears and be adaptive, and enjoy the challenges of working for a high-growth technology company. The successful candidate will have a passion for providing data-based decision making and a desire to innovate, ask the right questions, and propose solutions.
The Strategic Finance Associate will support financial analysis, forecasting, reporting and operational support activities for the company. The role will be focused on performance management, providing key insights to cross-functional partners and managing projects end-to-end to optimize business processes. The role will also provide modeling support and analysis to assist management with understanding business drivers, trends and KPIs. This position plays an important, highly visibility role in daily operations and strategic decision making at Spotter.
Responsibilities include:
- Build and update sophisticated in-depth financial models from scratch to enable business planning and decision-making supporting company-wide forecasting by developing a detailed understanding of our business models and evaluating the key performance drivers
- Support the preparation of department, portfolio, and consolidated corporate financial reporting with variance analysis (actuals vs. budget and forecast) and explanations that provide business insights on financial performance to internal and external customers and management
- Prepare board-level documents, business review presentations, and annual budget presentations for internal and external publication
- Help create and ensure timely delivery of monthly reporting packages to investors
- Work cross-functionally across departments including Analytics, Partnerships, and Ad Sales on multiple projects supporting investor reporting, portfolio performance analyses, and other assignments as requested
Who You Are:
- Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative and analytical field such as Finance, Accounting or Economics with 2+ years of investment banking or management consulting experience and/or finance experience at a high-growth startup or Fortune 500 tech company
- Significant financial modeling experience and exposure to financial statements reporting, variance analysis, data analysis, forecasting and budgeting
- Self-motivated team player with strong ability to interact with others
- Learning agility, intellectual curiosity, and adaptability in assuming new responsibilities and passionate for solving new problems
- Strong knowledge of financial systems and high level of proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint is required
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Good organizational skills and able to handle a high work volume
- Experience with financial and ERP systems such as NetSuite, Salesforce, PowerBI an added plus
- Foundational knowledge of and genuine excitement for the YouTube Content Creator industry
Why Spotter
- Medical and vision insurance covered up to 100%
- Dental insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Stock options
- Complimentary gym access
- Autonomy and upward mobility
- Diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture, where your voice matters.
In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles that will be performed in Culver City. Actual salaries will vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. A reasonable estimate of the current pay range is: $75-$500K salary per year. The range listed is just one component of Spotter’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include an annual discretionary bonus and equity.
Spotter is an equal opportunity employer. Spotter does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, religion, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic characteristics or information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, use of or request for family or medical leave, political affiliation, or any other status protected under applicable federal, state or local laws.
Equal access to programs, services and employment is available to all persons. Those applicants requiring reasonable accommodations as part of the application and/or interview process should notify a representative of the Human Resources Department.
What We Do
Spotter provides cash to Creators to grow or diversify their business while retaining their freedom.
Dedicated to empowering Creators and growing the Creator Economy, with Spotter, Creators receive cash for their catalogs through licensing their existing videos (and/or future video uploads) and receive a payout instantly. Creators then use the funds to fuel their growth through hiring resources, investing, or anyway they choose, all while remaining independent. In addition to funding, Spotter provides Creators with in-depth data insights into the performance of all existing content to further help educate the Creator on the value of their library, the value of future uploads and how they can improve performance in the future.
Founded in 2019 to help YouTube creators scale their brands, as of January 2022, Spotter has deployed over $300 million to YouTube creators to reinvest in themselves and accelerate their growth. Spotter has licensed content that consists of over 100,000 videos, generating 40 billion monthly watch-time minutes. With our curated premium video catalog, we deliver a unique scaled media solution to Advertisers and Ad Agencies that is transparent, efficient and 100% brand safe.
Being at the forefront of the Creator Economy, we have incredible teams, doing exceptional work. If you want to find a true sense of belonging with individuals who are incredibly passionate about the work they are doing, where we put people over profits, transparency over mystery and radical change over gradual growth (we go big and take ownership of any risk!), then you’ve come to the right place.
