Spotter

Strategic Finance Associate

Culver City, California, United States Full Time

Overview

Spotter empowers the world's best Creators with capital, data, and insights to scale their programming into sustainable media businesses. Through these partnerships, Spotter helps brands partner with creator-led franchises to unlock growth, amplify impact, and build lasting cultural relevance.

Spotter has already deployed over $950 million to Creators to reinvest in themselves and accelerate their growth, with plans to reach $1 billion in investment in 2025. 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.

About the Position

We’re looking for a driven and analytical professional to partner with our Strategic Finance Lead in shaping our long-term strategy and operational initiatives. In this highly visible role, you’ll collaborate closely with the executive leadership team to inform decision making across the company, leveraging your deep understanding of financial performance and data-driven insights.

Strategic Finance works collaboratively with FP&A and Accounting professionals on the Finance team, while serving as a subject matter expert on the company’s financials, performance metrics, and operational workflows. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, communicates with clarity and confidence, and is able to roll up their sleeves to tackle complex, data-heavy challenges that drive meaningful impact across the business.

What You’ll Do

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

  • Build and update in-depth financial models from scratch to enable business planning and decision-making supporting company-wide forecasting
  • Develop a deep understanding of our business levers, while having a strong knowledge of cash flow modeling and evaluating key KPIs across the business
  • Support the preparation of department, portfolio, and consolidated corporate financial reporting while providing explanations that provide business insights on financial performance to internal and external customers and management
  • Build new reporting mechanisms or dashboards across the Company that can enhance the Finance department’s ability to make real-time decisions
  • Support CEO / COO / Head of Finance on potential M&A or fundraising activities and investor relations / reporting by preparing board-level documents and due diligence materials 
  • Demonstrate initiative while working cross-functionally with departments including Analytics, Partnerships, and Ad Sales on multiple projects supporting portfolio performance analyses, financial dashboarding, or anything needed to drive productivity in the business

Who You Are

  • 2+ years of investment banking experience or a relevant experience in a similarly analytical field, such as management consulting or finance at a high-growth startup
  • Significant financial modeling experience and exposure to financial statements, capital structure analysis, forecasting, and large data sets
  • Learning agility, intellectual curiosity, and adaptability in assuming new responsibilities and passionate for solving new problems
  • Clear written and verbal communicator with strong ability to articulate financial topics / business model dynamics to a range of audiences
  • Excellent Excel / PowerPoint skills with strong attention for detail
  • Comfortability with PowerBI or additional dashboarding / automation tools
  • Knowledge of the YouTube Creator landscape and experience with tech / media business models a plus
  • Excitement to work in Los Angeles / Culver City office 3x times a week

Why Spotter

  • Medical insurance covered up to 100%
  • Dental & vision insurance
  • 401(k) matching
  • Stock options
  • Discretionary PTO
  • 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: $130K-$150K 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.