Senior Financial Analyst

Summary

The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia – one of the most popular websites in the world, serving nearly half a billion users every month. It is the only non-profit in the top 50 websites, supported by a community of millions of individual donors. Join the Wikimedia Foundation in our ambitious project to empower people to create and share the sum of all human knowledge.

We are looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to join our Financial Planning & Analysis team, reporting to the Senior Manager of finance. As the Senior Financial Analyst on the team, you will develop a comprehensive understanding of our revenue channels and grants programs and provide analytical insight into the financial data for senior executives, managers, and program owners. Your data-driven work supports our Foundation’s vision of a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. You will provide globally distributed teams with insightful analysis, planning, and reporting support. 

You will support the Foundation’s goal of becoming a model for financial planning, analysis, and reporting across the Wikimedia Movement by standardizing, improving, and maintaining the Foundation’s financial management practices and processes. 

This role is remote and open to candidates between UTC-8 to UTC-4 (ie. Pacific daylight time to Atlantic time.). Due to the nature of this role, which involves working with globally distributed teams, you may occasionally be required to work outside of standard business hours  

Role Responsibilities:

Financial Business Partnership

• 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.

Business Analytics

• 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.

Project and Process Management

• Support strategic projects across teams in the departments you support and in the Finance teams.
• Project manage different cross-functional projects as they arise. 

Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s + 5 years of relevant experience in FP&A, Business Analytics, Accounting, Program Management or similar. MBA/Master preferred.
• 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
• Understanding of non-profit fundraising strategies preferred

Qualities that are important to us: 

• You love solving problems and understanding the connections between micro decisions and macro systems.
• You believe in the mission of the Foundation and are excited to dig into numbers and processes to support that mission.
• You enjoy collaborating with a range of stakeholders, and you value knowledge-sharing, and collaboration.
• You are capable of working with distributed teams using asynchronous and synchronous methods.
• You are a proactive problem solver and take initiative in identifying needs and taking action prior to being asked.
• You are comfortable with ambiguity and are able to adapt to a rapidly changing business environment.
• You thrive in a results-oriented culture that favors collaborative decision-making.
• You have strong time management skills and plan and prioritize work to accomplish all tasks.
• You are a flexible and creative individual capable of managing multiple priorities and projects in a diverse environment while providing top-level attention to detail, and ensuring work is complete.

Additionally, we’d love it if you have:  

• 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.

About the Wikimedia Foundation

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.

As an equal opportunity employer, the Wikimedia Foundation values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace. We encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race, traits historically associated with race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy or related medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics.

The Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based 40+ countries*. 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. We neither ask for nor take into consideration the salary history of applicants. The compensation for a successful applicant will be based on their skills, experience and location. 

*Please note that we are currently able to hire in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Peru, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America and Uruguay.  Our non-US employees are hired through a local third party Employer of Record (EOR). 

We periodically review this list to streamline to ensure alignment with our hiring requirements. 

All applicants can reach out to their recruiter to understand more about the specific pay range for their location during the interview process.

If you are a qualified applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any step of the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected] or +1 (415) 839-6885.

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