Sr. Manager, ERP Systems & Transformation Job at Wikimedia Foundation

Job Description

As a primary architect of our financial systems, you will bridge the gap between sophisticated technical design and global business strategy to build a leading-edge digital ecosystem. This role offers the unique challenge of designing our next phase of automation, analytics, and AI in our business processes. This is a high-impact opportunity to lead the evolution of our finance tech stack, ensuring our data and infrastructure empower the Wikimedia Foundation's operations so that we can meet our vision of helping every human being freely share in the sum of all knowledge.

Job Responsibility

Shaping, evolving, and championing the core finance systems strategy to improve accounting and finance operational workflows and promote automation
Developing and own a strategic 3-year finance system transformation roadmap that prioritizes initiatives based on business impact, feasibility, resource constraints, and evaluation criteria
Driving end-to-end digital transformation of our workflows in collaboration with the business analysis, project management, IT Services teams, and subject matter experts
Leading cross-functional system transformation initiatives, serving as both strategist and hands-on project leader
Serving as the overall finance systems product owner, driving continuous improvement, proactively identifying inefficiencies, reducing manual work, and enhancing data accuracy and audit readiness
Proactively managing risks associated with ERP architecture and data integrity
Driving collaborative decision-making and governance with senior leaders in IT, HR, Fundraising, and Security to execute system-related policies and internal controls
Navigating complex, sensitive organizational shifts by influencing senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to adopt new technologies and process changes
Defining and owning adoption and success metrics for financial systems
Managing the budget and drive cost efficiency of our ERP systems
Acting as finance automation & AI lead for our financial workflows
Effectively leading a small ERP systems team of 2 direct reports

Requirements

10+ years of progressive experience in finance transformation, ERP implementation, and systems improvement
Strong understanding of accounting and finance concepts
US GAAP principles
record-to-report, procure-to-pay, and other financial cycles
Ability to work effectively in a highly integrated working model
Ability to lead workshops, including gathering and documenting business needs and use cases
Experience delivering major transformation initiatives in waterfall and agile environments
Proven track record in managing cross-functional systems teams
Experience defining roadmaps, prioritizing backlogs, and delivering complex, multi-system changes
Able to communicate technical decisions in plain language to senior leadership and cross-functional audiences
Skilled at working in a global, distributed, remote-friendly environment
Direct experience designing and governing multi-tenant cloud enterprise architectures, including management of asynchronous data flows, API rates, and schema evolution between SaaS systems and data warehousing
Hands-on experience designing and implementing data pipelines to consolidate disparate data in end-to-end financial workflows
Deep understanding of finance processes and ERP systems (Sage Intacct, Coupa, Navan or similar)
Understanding of non-profit data environments would be a plus
Experience defining integration strategy using knowledge of integration patterns and technologies (JSON/XML, REST/SOAP, webhooks), identity, and security controls
Knowledge of audit and compliance frameworks and the ability to map these to system configurations
Experience designing and implementing cloud data lake or data warehouse solutions in multi-tenant environments is a plus

Nice to have

Understanding of non-profit data environments would be a plus
Experience designing and implementing cloud data lake or data warehouse solutions in multi-tenant environments is a plus

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