Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in a data analyst role or querying, troubleshooting databases, and writing SQL queries.
- Experience conducting music industry royalty audits or agreement compliance analysis.
- Experience explaining and presenting data analysis to cross-functional teams.
- Experience developing actionable business plans from large amounts of unfiltered data.
- Experience in consulting, data analytics, or business intelligence.
- Experience working with external auditors.
- Ability to present ideas and recommendations to executives, business partners, clients, and cross-functional teams.
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About the job
YouTube's Business Compliance Operations (BCO) team contributes significantly in ensuring that our YouTube processes and ecosystem are healthy, optimized for efficiency and compliant with Google standards. We support projects on a wide range of cross functional efforts such as deals, contracts, and payment operations.
As a Payment Assurance Specialist, you are the engagement manager taking responsibility for the success of YouTube's audit processes and execution. You drive our cross-functional effort to scale royalty audit operations and deliver exceptional experience to our partners conducting the audit. You will lead cross-functional teams from Engineering, Partnerships, and Legal to enable audit execution, define scope of the audit, explain how YouTube business processes and systems work, gather data requests, follow-up on additional questions, validate findings, and perform data analysis to understand global impact. Work as part of a team to identify, design, develop, and document controls, systems, and analytics that will support audit testing, continuous auditing, continuous monitoring, automation, and quality assessment systems of complex payment flows.
At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun - and we do it all together.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $106,000-$156,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google .
Responsibilities
- Assess existing payment processes to identify payment audit ability and contractual audit requirements.
- Pull data and perform analysis from various systems to address and satisfy data requests.
- Lead cross-functional meetings to ensure that the scope of audit and data align with internal policy and procedures.
- Coordinate efforts, technical ownership, and functional ownership of external audit requests.
- Make recommendations on how to improve internal controls and governance processes.