Lead Financial Analyst – Strategic Business Partner, Product & Technology

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Wikimedia Foundation

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2003

🤝 Non-profit

📚 Education

📱 Media

💰 $2.5M Grant on 2019-09

Non-profit • Education • Media

Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to the growth, development, and distribution of free, multilingual content. It provides the essential infrastructure for free knowledge, including hosting Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that is created, edited, and verified by a global community of volunteers. Supported primarily through donations, Wikimedia Foundation promotes collaborative projects that aim to share knowledge reflecting human diversity and strives to protect everyone's right to access free and open knowledge.

📋 Description

• Serve as lead finance partner to Product & Technology leadership and a second department • Provide analysis for prioritization and investment trade-offs • Join planning and roadmap conversations as the voice of finance • Translate SRE, AI/ML, and Data Engineering roadmaps into budgets, forecasts, and headcount and contractor plans • Lead annual budgeting, quarterly reforecasting, and multi-year planning • Facilitate vendor spend optimization across cloud, hosting, software, and contractor support • Lead data center and infrastructure CAPEX planning, including capacity, hardware refresh, and depreciation impacts • Partner with Accounting on software capitalization and capitalizable labor and contractor costs • Model total cost of ownership and build-versus-buy decisions • Lead month-end close, forecasting, and variance analysis • Present resource plans and financial performance to senior leaders, including the CPTO and CFO • Build and maintain dashboards connecting spend to technical and product outcomes • Coach and mentor FP&A analysts • Set standards and share best practices for financial business partnership • Lead projects improving financial modeling, departmental reporting, and business insights • Help manage the financial planning and reporting system, including documentation, process improvements, and module roll-outs

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree plus 7+ years of experience in FP&A, financial business partnering, or corporate finance • Experience supporting a technology, engineering, or product organization • Experience partnering with technical and product teams • Experience working at a strategic level on business and organizational-wide goals • Strong financial modeling and analytical skills • Excellent written and verbal communication, including presenting to executives • Track record of building credibility with senior stakeholders and influencing without authority • Experience supporting multiple divisions or business units simultaneously • Experience mentoring or coaching other analysts • Experience leading process improvement projects • MBA or CPA preferred • Tech-specific planning experience preferred, including data center or infrastructure CAPEX, software capitalization (ASC 350-40), headcount planning, and contractor or vendor spend • Experience with Workday Adaptive Planning preferred • Finance business intelligence and reporting experience preferred • Experience in a nonprofit, open-source, or mission-driven organization preferred • Understanding of free culture, free software, or online rights movements preferred • Non-US employees must have current work authorization in their location

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote-first organization • Annual department offsite, strategy alignment trips, and global community conferences (2–3 trips per year) • Equal opportunity and inclusive workplace • Compensation adjusted to country of hire for applicants outside the US • U.S. benefits and perks (details linked in the posting)

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