Lead Financial Analyst, Strategic Business Partner – Product & Technology

remote work; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

The Wikimedia Foundation is a mission-driven nonprofit hosting one of the world’s most visited websites. This role partners with the Product and Technology department to drive financial planning, analytics, and business partnering practices for a budget of more than $100M, working closely with senior leadership including the CPTO and CFO.

As the lead finance partner, you will inform prioritization and investment trade-offs, translate roadmaps into budgets, forecasts, and headcount plans, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree plus 7+ years of FP&A or financial business partnering experience, preferably supporting technology, engineering, or product teams.
• MBA or CPA preferred.
• Strong financial modeling, analysis, and executive level communication skills.
• Experience partnering with technical and product teams and influencing without authority.
• Experience mentoring analysts and leading process improvements.
• Preferred: data center or infrastructure CAPEX, software capitalization, headcount planning, and Workday Adaptive Planning experience.

Responsibilities

• Be the lead finance partner to Product and Technology, informing prioritization and investment trade offs.
• Join planning and roadmap discussions early to raise tradeoffs and risks before commitments.
• Translate roadmaps into budgets, forecasts, and headcount and contractor plans for technical teams.
• Lead annual budgeting, quarterly reforecasting, and multi year planning for the departments.
• Facilitate vendor spend optimization across cloud, hosting, software, and contractors.
• Model total cost of ownership, communicate financial impact to non finance leaders, and build dashboards linking spend to outcomes.

Skills

Financial modeling

Executive communication

FP&A partnership

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA or CPA

Tools

Workday Adaptive Planning

Excel

SQL

Job description

About the role

The Wikimedia Foundation is a mission driven organization that hosts one of the world’s most visited websites. This role partners with the Product and Technology department to drive financial planning, analytics, and business partnering practices for a budget of more than $100M, working closely with senior leadership including the CPTO and CFO.

What you'll do

• Be the lead finance partner to Product and Technology, informing prioritization and investment trade offs.
• Join planning and roadmap discussions early to raise tradeoffs and risks before commitments.
• Translate roadmaps into budgets, forecasts, and headcount and contractor plans for technical teams.
• Lead annual budgeting, quarterly reforecasting, and multi year planning for the departments.
• Facilitate vendor spend optimization across cloud, hosting, software, and contractors.
• Model total cost of ownership, communicate financial impact to non finance leaders, and build dashboards linking spend to outcomes.

What they're looking for

• Bachelor's degree plus 7+ years of FP&A or financial business partnering experience, preferably supporting technology, engineering, or product teams.
• MBA or CPA preferred.
• Strong financial modeling, analysis, and executive level communication skills.
• Experience partnering with technical and product teams and influencing without authority.
• Experience mentoring analysts and leading process improvements.
• Preferred: data center or infrastructure CAPEX, software capitalization, headcount planning, and Workday Adaptive Planning experience.

For applicants in Nigeria

• The listing indicates remote work; the role is remote and open to applicants globally, with no explicit country restrictions stated.
• Timezone expectations are not specified in the listing; confirm during interview.
• The listing does not specify contractor versus employee status; confirm during interview.
• Pay currency or range is not specified in the listing; confirm during interview.
• Visa or work authorization notes are not stated; confirm during interview.