Wikimedia Foundation - Lead Financial Analyst, Strategic Business Partner – Product & Technology

• Bachelor's degree plus 7+ years of experience in FP&A, financial business partnering, or corporate finance, including experience supporting a technology, engineering, or product organization. MBA or CPA preferred. • Experience partnering with technical and product teams, and the curiosity to learn how they work. • Experience working at a strategic level on business and organizational-wide goals. • Strong financial modeling and analytical skills, and excellent written and verbal communication, including presenting to executives. • A track record of building credibility with senior stakeholders and influencing without authority. • Experience supporting multiple divisions or business units at once, mentoring or coaching other analysts, and leading process improvement projects. • Preferred • Tech-specific planning experience, such as data center or infrastructure CAPEX, software capitalization (ASC 350-40), headcount planning, and contractor or vendor spend. • Experience with Workday Adaptive Planning. • Finance business intelligence and reporting experience. • Experience in a nonprofit, open-source, or mission-driven organization. • An understanding of the free culture, free software, or online rights movements. • Qualities that are important to us • You love solving problems and understand the connections between micro decisions and the macro systems. • You love deeply understanding business drivers and finding ways we can deploy resources for greater impact. • You believe in the mission and enjoy collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders. • You work well with distributed teams, both asynchronously and synchronously. • You are proactive, comfortable with ambiguity, and adaptable in a fast-changing environment. • You look for ways to simplify and standardize, and you can bring others along. • You are a thoughtful mentor who enjoys raising the capability of those around you. • What Success Looks Like • Product & Technology leaders involve you early and treat you as a thought partner, not a scorekeeper. • Investment proposals arrive with clear, well-supported financial cases. • Budgets and forecasts reflect the real roadmap, and variance commentary explains the why. • FP&A analysts on the team are growing in skill and confidence through your coaching. • The business partner function has stronger standards, tools, and processes than it did before you joined. • Travel Expectations: • Frequency: 2–3 trips per year (international and domestic). • Frequency: • Purpose: Annual department offsite, strategy alignment with Product & Tech (P&T) leadership, and global community conferences. • Purpose: • The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge, and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge freely. We host Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive. • The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable, not-for-profit organization that relies on donations. We receive donations from millions of individuals around the world, with an average donation of about $15. We also receive donations through institutional grants and gifts. The Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA. • News from across the Wikimedia movement • Wikimedia Blog • Wikimedia 2030