Sr. Manager, ERP Systems & Transformation

Remote Summary 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*. You are responsible for:

• 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 that measure the effectiveness of transformation initiatives against long-term Foundation goals.
• 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, ensuring that system evolutions do not disrupt business-critical financial activities or audit objectives.
• Driving collaborative decision-making and governance with senior leaders in IT, HR, Fundraising, and Security to execute system-related policies and internal controls, ensuring organization-wide compliance across global finance operations.
• 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, identifying automation targets, improved analytics, and designing agentic workflows.
• Effectively leading a small ERP systems team of 2 direct reports who are responsible for managing multiple work streams and functional areas with dotted lines to other teams. Ensuring the team meets goals, drives improvement, and develops professionally.

Skills and Experience: Leadership and Collaboration

• 10+ years of progressive experience in finance transformation...