10 Spotify finance leaders
Spotify's finance bench here starts with its Chief Accounting Officer and takes in four FP&A directors, senior directors of technical and revenue accounting, the EMEA accounting director, a senior tax director and the APAC finance director. Nine still hold Spotify roles, which makes the group useful to a streaming or audio business working out how to organize planning, revenue accounting and tax across business lines and regions.
Professionals to explore
Jody Ong
LinkedInExperience: Finance Director, APAC · Spotify
As Finance Director, APAC at Spotify since 2016, Jody Ong describes serving on the Finance Leadership Team overseeing Spotify’s operations regionally, including setting up and overseeing reporting, accounting and audit under regulatory and legal requirements. Before that came several Microsoft finance titles, the most recent Senior Controller, APAC Devices & OEM Windows (2013–2016). Regional statutory reporting in Asia Pacific fits this call.
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John Giraldo
LinkedInExperience: Chief Accounting Officer · Spotify
John Giraldo has been Spotify's Chief Accounting Officer since 2026, after Executive Vice President, Global Controller (2019–2026) and Senior Vice President, Global Controller (2017–2019) at NBCUniversal, and Global Controller and Chief Accounting Officer at WME Speakers (2016–2017). Giraldo has also sat on the Audit Committee of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences board since 2022. The controller and chief accounting titles make Giraldo the person for questions on close, controls and reporting.
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Karl-Johan Flyborg
LinkedInExperience: Former Director, Financial Planning & Analysis · Spotify
Karl-Johan Flyborg was Director, Financial Planning & Analysis at Spotify (2016–2017), then held Business Strategy & Analytics titles as Director (2017–2018) and Senior Director (2019–2021), and has been SVP, Business Strategy & Insights since 2025 after serving as VP, Business Strategy & Insights (2021–2025). The move from FP&A into strategy suits questions on where planning ends and business strategy begins.
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Magnus Wiedel
LinkedInExperience: Former Director, FP&A · Spotify
Former Director, FP&A at Spotify (2019–2024), Magnus Wiedel went on to Director of Group Business Control at Modern Times Group MTG AB (2024–2025) and has been Senior Manager, FP&A at Verifone since 2025; before Spotify came Head of FP&A at Benify (2015–2019). With FP&A titles at Spotify, Benify and Verifone, Wiedel can compare how planning works at Spotify with other businesses.
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Malin Bichout Fjellström
LinkedInExperience: Director accounting EMEA · Spotify
Malin Bichout Fjellström holds two current Spotify titles, Director accounting EMEA (since 2017) and Accounting Manager (since 2014), and worked at GE as Lead Project Finance Analyst (2012–2014) and FP&A Manager Decision support Nordic and Baltic s (2009–2012). The EMEA accounting title makes Fjellström a fit for questions on European entity accounting and the regional close.
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Matthew Frank
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Tax · Spotify
Matthew Frank describes the Senior Director, Tax role at Spotify (since 2023) as managing global tax controversy. Transfer pricing shows up across the rest of the record: Principal, Tax, Transfer Pricing at KPMG US (2017–2020), Senior Tax Counsel, Transfer Pricing at GE Company (2008–2017) and Director, APA Program at the Internal Revenue Service (2003–2008), plus Partner at Steptoe LLP (2020–2023). Disputes with tax authorities and intercompany pricing are the right topics.
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Melissa Anderson
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Revenue Accounting · Spotify
Revenue accounting is Melissa Anderson's lane: Senior Director, Revenue Accounting at Spotify since 2025 and Director, Revenue Accounting from 2021 to 2025, following Director, Technical Accounting (2019–2021) and Senior Manager, Technical Accounting (2016–2019) at Spotify and Senior Manager- Audit at KPMG (2008–2016). A fit for questions on revenue recognition policy and the process behind it.
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Oscar Norrman
LinkedInExperience: Director, FP&A · Spotify
Oscar Norrman's five titles are all at Spotify: Senior Analyst, FP&A (2018–2019), Manager, FP&A (2019–2021), Commercial Strategy Lead (2021–2022), Senior Manager, FP&A (2022–2026) and Director, FP&A since 2026, a role that also covers strategic finance. Norrman is someone to ask how an FP&A team supports commercial and strategic finance decisions.
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Sallie Deysel
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Technical Accounting · Spotify
Senior Director, Technical Accounting at Spotify since 2019 and Director, Technical Accounting there from 2017 to 2019, Sallie Deysel held PwC Accounting Consulting Services titles of Director (2015–2017) and Senior Manager (2000–2015) before that. Technical accounting judgments on new contracts, products or transactions are the natural subject for a call.
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Will Weatherly
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, FP&A - Advertising and Podcasts · Spotify
Will Weatherly's Spotify titles move from accounting into planning: Technical Accounting Senior Manager - Content (2017–2019), Director, Technical Accounting - Labels and Podcasts (2019–2021), Senior Director, Accounting - Labels, Podcasts, PTP, Data Automation (2021–2023), and Senior Director, FP&A - Advertising and Podcasts since 2023. That path suits questions on accounting for label and podcast costs and on forecasting advertising and podcast results.
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Choose the right perspective
Planning and forecasting go to Will Weatherly or Oscar Norrman in current FP&A roles, or to Magnus Wiedel for FP&A seen from other companies and Karl-Johan Flyborg for how planning meets business strategy. For accounting policy, choose among John Giraldo, Sallie Deysel and Melissa Anderson; tax disputes go to Matthew Frank, and regional finance to Jody Ong for APAC or Malin Bichout Fjellström for EMEA.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How should FP&A forecast advertising and podcast revenue differently from the rest of a streaming business?
- 02Which technical accounting judgments come up most often around payments to labels and other content owners?
- 03How should regional finance teams in APAC and EMEA split statutory reporting and audit work with a central accounting group?
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