Senior Financial Analyst

Summary

Join the Wikimedia Foundation as a Senior Financial Analyst and contribute to the financial planning and analysis of one of the world's most popular websites. Reporting to the Senior Manager of Finance, you will develop a comprehensive understanding of revenue channels and grants programs. You will provide insightful analysis and reporting support to globally distributed teams, supporting the Foundation's goal of becoming a model for financial planning and analysis. This remote role is open to candidates in specific time zones and may require occasional work outside standard business hours. You will partner with various teams, analyze financial data, and develop reporting dashboards. The role requires a Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of relevant experience.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s + 5 years of relevant experience in FP&A, Business Analytics, Accounting, Program Management or similar
• Experience with financial planning, analysis, and reporting
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to communicate effectively with non-finance users
• Ability to successfully self-manage multiple priorities including urgent tasks
• Function in a highly collaborative, consensus-oriented environment

Responsibilities

• Build close relationships with leaders in the digital fundraising and revenue analytics teams to understand revenue scenarios and forecasting processes
• Support department leadership and budget managers in operationalizing business strategies by analyzing resource plans and their alignment with our strategic business objectives
• Facilitate department budgeting, financial modeling, expense forecasting, and other planning processes
• Build productive business partnerships across a globally distributed organization and serve as a trusted advisor to departmental leadership
• Understand strategic revenue plans, including the potential benefits and risks of further investments, and assist the revenue analytics team in data-driven decision-making
• Support budget managers in revenue-generating teams, like our API business and the Wikimedia Endowment, with data-driven analysis
• Evaluate global grantmaking programs and synthesize information about spending with strategic grant programs and policies
• Facilitate multi-year financial planning for our grant programs
• Interpret, explain, and drive department performance by executing month-end close variance reporting and projection processes. Present insights to senior leadership
• Provide budget managers in the department with operational analysis and reporting as needed by using our financial reporting system Workday Adaptive
• Establish standards for processes in the Financial Planning & Reporting system and write internal documentation of assumptions, formulas, maintenance processes, and integration with other systems
• Develop and maintain reporting dashboards and visualization of reporting information for month-end close, program evaluation, and financial planning processes
• Support strategic projects across teams in the departments you support and in the Finance teams
• Project manage different cross-functional projects as they arise

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA/Master preferred
• Understanding of non-profit fundraising strategies preferred
• Previous work experience with Workday Adaptive Planning preferred
• Finance Analyst or Finance business intelligence and reporting experience
• Understanding of the free culture, free software, or online rights movements

Benefits

• Remote work
• Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are set in a way that is competitive, equitable, and consistent with our values and culture
• The anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US$ 85,127 to US$ 129,271 with multiple individualized factors, including cost of living in the location, being the determinants of the offered pay
• For applicants located outside of the US, the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire