Lead Financial Analyst, Strategic Business Partner
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Wikimedia FoundationTechnology nonprofit
This role is remote and open to candidates between UTC-8 and UTC+1., UTC-8 to UTC+1Full-TimeLead
Salary110,000 - 181,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 7+ years of experience in FP&A, financial business partnering, or corporate finance
- Required Skills
- Financial analysis
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree.
- 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 strategically on business and organization-wide goals.
- Strong financial modeling and analytical skills.
- Strong 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 at once.
- Experience mentoring or coaching analysts.
- Experience leading process-improvement projects.
- MBA or CPA preferred.
- Preferred experience includes technology planning such as infrastructure CAPEX, software capitalization, headcount planning, or contractor and vendor spend.
- Workday Adaptive Planning experience is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Product & Technology leaders and budget owners, providing analysis for prioritization and investment trade-offs.
- Join planning and roadmap discussions early to identify financial trade-offs and risks before commitments are made.
- 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 for assigned departments.
- 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 model total cost of ownership and build-versus-buy decisions.
- Lead month-end close, forecasting, variance analysis, and financial reporting to senior leaders.
- Build and maintain dashboards that connect spending to technical and product outcomes.
- Coach FP&A analysts and lead projects to improve business-partner standards, reporting, modeling, and planning systems.
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