Strategic Finance Associate, Spotter
$75-500k
+ Stock options
Office located in Culver City, CA
Finance solution for content creators
Be an early applicant
Finance solution for content creators
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$75-500k
+ Stock options
Office located in Culver City, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
To catapult creative potential with lucrative deals that make you unstoppable.
Role
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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Our take
Spotter offers digital-creatives the opportunity to transform content creation as a hobby to a full-time job by providing them with the capital to do so. The company provides cash upfront to creators in exchange for ownership of any future ad revenue their videos generate.
Not dissimilar to venture capital investments, Spotter has applied this model to the digital content world, an increasingly lucrative industry. It is well placed to continue rapid ascension given its impressive clientele, some of YouTube’s most popular creators - such as Mr.Beast and Dude Perfect - whose cumulative content has amassed a combined 50 billion minutes in watch time.
2022 investment from Japan’s SoftBank and further venture capital positions Spotter to invest $1 billion with YouTube creators through 2023, cementing it as the leading partner of content creation.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Sep 2024
$7.4m
LATE VC
Sep 2022
$9.4m
LATE VC
Total funding: $247.4m
Company benefits
- Medical insurance covered up to 100%
- Dental & vision insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Stock options
- Autonomy and upward mobility
Company values
- People over profits: We act with our partners’ best interests in mind
- Algorithms over guessing games: We leverage tech that provides insight and foresight
- Transparency over mystery: We believe openness is the key to building trust
- Radical change over gradual growth: We go big and take ownership of any risk
Company HQ
Playa Vista, Los Angeles, CA
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Leadership
Aaron DeBevoise
(CEO)Previously co-founded Cflix, North Entertainment, Machinima, StyleHaul, and served as CEO for Network of One. Spent nearly 5 years at J.P Morgan, initially as an Analyst before becoming an Associate within the Entertainment Industries Group.
Nic Paul
(COO)Previously founded N.B Paul and Revee, serving here as CEO until it was acquired by Outbrain, and acting as Head of Sales and Innovation. Spent 4 years at Penske Media Corporation as Senior Vice President.
David Carroll
(Chief of R&D)Previously founded SantaCruzGuide.com. Experience as a Software Engineer for ICTV, Interwoven, and eBay, and later held positions at Sony, Sizzle Digital Media and DIRECTV, before serving as CTO for Network of One.
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