Wikimedia Foundation · 9 hours ago
Senior Financial Analyst
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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.
Qualification
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Required
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
Preferred
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.
Company
Wikimedia Foundation
Wikimedia Foundation encourages the development and distribution of free educational content with projects such as Wikipedia.
H1B Sponsorship
Wikimedia Foundation has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2023 (4)
2022 (3)
2021 (2)
2020 (3)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$158.98MKey Investors
Alfred P. Sloan FoundationCraig Newmark PhilanthropiesGoogle.org
2020-01-01Grant· $2.1M
2019-09-10Grant· $2.5M
2019-01-22Grant· $1.1M
Leadership Team
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2024-11-06
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