
The Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit organization that builds and maintains the infrastructure behind free, multilingual knowledge online. It hosts Wikipedia, where volunteers around the world create, edit, and verify articles, and supports collaborative projects designed to make knowledge more representative of human diversity. Funded primarily by donations, the Foundation works to keep free and open knowledge accessible to everyone. Its work spans nonprofit, education, and media contexts.
Lead Financial Analyst, Product and Technology
Partner with Wikimedia Foundation’s Product and Technology leaders on more than $100 million in investments. Turn technical roadmaps into budgets, forecasts, and financial guidance for strategic decisions.
110 000 $ – 181 000 $ / yil
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- Act as lead finance partner to Product and Technology leaders and one additional department.
- Analyze priorities and investment trade-offs.
- Contribute financial guidance to planning and roadmap discussions.
- Convert SRE, AI/ML, and data engineering roadmaps into budgets, forecasts, and staffing and contractor plans.
- Direct annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, and multi-year financial plans.
- Identify opportunities to optimize spending on cloud services, hosting, software, and contractor support.
- Oversee data center and infrastructure capital planning, including capacity, hardware replacement, and depreciation.
- Work with Accounting on software capitalization and eligible labor and contractor costs.
- Assess total ownership costs and build-versus-buy options.
- Oversee month-end close, forecasts, and variance analysis.
- Present staffing plans and financial results to senior leaders, including the CPTO and CFO.
- Create and maintain dashboards that link spending to technical and product results.
- Guide and mentor FP&A analysts.
- Establish standards and share effective financial partnership practices.
- Lead efforts to improve financial models, departmental reporting, and business insights.
- Support the financial planning and reporting system through documentation, process improvements, and module launches.
Talablar
- Bachelor’s degree and at least seven years of experience in FP&A, finance business partnering, or corporate finance.
- Experience supporting a technology, engineering, or product organization.
- Experience working with technical and product teams.
- Experience contributing strategically to business-wide and organizational goals.
- Strong financial modeling and analytical capabilities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, including executive presentations.
- Demonstrated ability to build trust with senior stakeholders and influence without formal authority.
- Experience supporting multiple divisions or business units at once.
- Experience mentoring or coaching analysts.
- Experience leading process improvement initiatives.
- MBA or CPA preferred.
- Technology planning experience preferred, including data center or infrastructure capital expenditure, software capitalization under ASC 350-40, workforce planning, and contractor or vendor spending.
- Experience with Workday Adaptive Planning preferred.
- Finance business intelligence and reporting experience preferred.
- Experience in a nonprofit, open-source, or mission-driven organization preferred.
- Familiarity with free culture, free software, or online rights movements preferred.
- Employees outside the United States must have current work authorization where they live.
Imtiyozlar
- Remote-first organization.
- Annual department offsite, strategy alignment travel, and global community conferences, totaling two to three trips per year.
- Equal opportunity employer with an inclusive workplace.
- For hires outside the United States, compensation is adjusted to the country of employment.
- U.S. benefits and perks are described in the job posting.