Lead Financial Analyst, Strategic Business Partner – Product & Technology

The role

You will be the lead finance partner to the Product & Technology department and a second department. You will help leaders weigh investment tradeoffs, build budgets and forecasts, and lead analysts on the team.

What you will do

• Act as lead finance partner to department leaders and budget owners, with analysis that informs prioritization and investment tradeoffs.
• Join planning and roadmap conversations early and raise tradeoffs and risks before commitments are made.
• Translate roadmaps from SRE, AI/ML and Data Engineering into budgets, forecasts, and headcount and contractor plans.
• Lead annual budgeting, quarterly reforecasting, and multi-year planning for your 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.
• Partner with Accounting on software capitalization, including project classification and capitalizable labor and contractor costs.
• Lead month-end close, forecasting, and variance analysis with clear commentary.
• Present resource plans and financial performance to senior leaders, including the CPTO and CFO.
• Coach and mentor FP&A analysts, and lead projects that improve the business partner function.

Required qualifications

• 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 organization-wide goals.
• Strong financial modeling and analytical skills.
• 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.
• Experience mentoring or coaching other analysts.
• Experience leading process improvement projects.

Nice to have

• MBA or CPA.
• 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.

Benefits

• U.S. benefits and perks are listed in the posting but not detailed in it.

Before you apply

• Non-US employees are hired through a local third-party Employer of Record and must have current work authorization in their location.
• Some countries are limited to citizens or permanent residents only (Kenya, Singapore).
• Applicants can contact their recruiter to learn the specific pay range for their location during the interview process.

About the company

The Wikimedia Foundation is a US 501(c)(3) nonprofit that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. It is remote-first and relies on donations, with offices in San Francisco.