Finance Strategist

Finance Strategist

At Wycliffe Bible Translators, your work is more than just a job. As a Finance Strategist, you'll be responsible for serving as the bridge between Finance teams, including Payroll, Gift Processing and Corporate Accounting and cross-functional departments, implementing systems and strategies that strengthen financial operations and support organizational effectiveness. Your contributions will play a pivotal role in advancing operational excellence and stewardship across the organization. You will leverage your experience working with cross-functional teams to improve financial processes, support planning and budgeting systems, optimize workflows, strengthen controls and align finance operations with Wycliffe Bible Translators' mission, stewardship values and global complexity. By translating complex issues into clear actionable solutions, you will bring clarity and consistency through strategic centralized intake, analysis and prioritization of payroll and other finance-related initiatives. In this role, your strategic thinking, strong analytical and communication skills and operational follow-through will create meaningful impact, fostering collaboration, adaptability and integrity while providing essential support that advances Bible translation efforts worldwide.

You'll partner with Payroll, Finance leadership and other team members to:

• Champion accuracy, timeliness and integrity across financial processes, reporting and communication.
• Handle financial data and interactions with professionalism, discretion, and care.
• Strengthen a collaborative, people-centered culture that values excellence and continuous improvement.
• Enable teams to focus on Wycliffe's mission by ensuring payroll and finance operations are clear, compliant, and well-supported.
• Strengthen stewardship while reducing operational risk.

The requirements listed below represent the knowledge, skill and/or ability necessary to perform each duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the following essential functions:

• Spiritual Bona Fide Occupational Qualification (BFOQ): Demonstrates desire and ability to support corporate biblical and religious goals and participate in regular work-related spiritual activities without reservation as evidenced by your active participation and willingness to pray with and for others; be a consistent witness for Jesus Christ, maintaining a courteous, Christ-like attitude in all verbal and written, internal and external professional communications.
• Humility: Works well within a team by demonstrating Christ-like maturity and humility that gives appropriate credit to others where it is due. Willing to take ownership of shortcomings and faults, admit and own mistakes, receive correction or exhortation and remain teachable with a willingness to learn and grow.
• Serving Others: Works well with people, focusing on solving conflict using biblical principles, listening well to others, using emotional intelligence and developing God-honoring relationships. Accepts feedback and responsibility for own actions and follows through on commitments. Promotes positive people skills and service focus among staff by establishing customer service standards, training staff, monitoring customer satisfaction and maintaining healthy working relationships.
• Problem Solving: Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with accuracy and attention to detail. Demonstrates good judgment with strong decision-making skills.
• Adaptability: Adapts to changes in the work environment, including working with diverse individuals or groups. Modifies approach or methods to fit the situation. Remains flexible and composed when facing frequent change, delays or unexpected events.
• Confidentiality: Understands the importance of confidentiality and works in a manner that maintains the highest level of trust with customers, staff and colleagues.
• Interpersonal Communication: Effective verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate ideas and win favor. Strong interpersonal skills in relating to people at all levels of positions and diverse backgrounds. Ability to relate well to others personally and professionally, easily building and maintaining relationships within the Finance team and other departments.
• Relationship Building: Effective at relationship-building with the ability to partner effectively within the department and with other directors and global teams. Works comfortably in both mono- or cross-cultural situations, winning cooperation through awareness and sensitivity to people's needs.
• Results-Driven: Able to work autonomously and make independent decisions. High-energy self-starter, driven to achieve results. Seizes opportunities to enhance organizational performance.
• Technical Skills: Proficient in programs such as Google Workspace (Mail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Drive, Slides, etc.) and video conferencing software such as Zoom; familiar with Workday HCM and Salesforce CRM. Advanced proficiency in MS Excel (VLOOKUP, PivotTables, Advanced formulas).

Education & Experience: Bachelor's degree in statistics, mathematics, accounting, finance, or a related field, plus five years of relevant experience; or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience. Demonstrated understanding of payroll, accounting procedures, and governing laws. Experience in data analysis and interpretation, identifying trends and control issues.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including:

• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance options for employees and their eligible dependents.
• Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA).
• 403b retirement savings account with matching.
• Paid time off with up to a max of 10 vacation days in the first year of employment (based on hours worked).
• Paid sick time off up to 8 hours per month (based on hours worked).
• 10+ paid holidays.
• Short-term disability pay.

We also offer regular spiritual development, worship, prayer, community gatherings and connection opportunities for all staff in all locations. Detailed information per position is available upon request.

The pay range for this position is $68,803 - $86,004. The range for this position is based upon and considers Wycliffe's non-profit ministry environment. Actual pay rate may be higher based on various factors such as qualifications, skills and experience, required training, licensure and/or certifications, budget and allocation, if applicable.

About Wycliffe Bible Translators

For over 80 years, Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. has been committed to ensuring that people "from every nation, tribe, people and language" (Revelation 7:9) have access to God's Word in a language and format they can clearly understand. We believe that accurate, clear and natural translations of the Bible in accessible formats lead to people entering into life-transforming relationships with God.

Wycliffe is a catalyst in the global Bible translation movement, engaging with thousands of partners around the world to collaboratively carry out this work.

Wycliffe's vision is that people from every language will understand the Bible and be transformed. Our mission is to serve with the global body of Christ to advance Bible translation so people can encounter God through His Word.

Wycliffe is a distinctly Christian community where you can flourish by using your God-given talents and abilities to serve and support the ministry of Bible translation. Your employment with Wycliffe is not merely a vocation; it is responding and making a commitment to actively participate in what He's doing around the world. Your faith, prayers, skills and experiences are foundational to contributing and witnessing God's Word impacting people around the world. This is a once-in-eternity opportunity!

We believe the Bible is the inspired Word of God and is completely trustworthy, speaking with supreme authority in all matters of belief and practice. Wycliffe's beliefs and core values can be found here. An exemplary standard of ethics, behavior and conduct that reflects biblical principles are lived-out by all staff. As an active partner in fulfilling the Great Commission, Wycliffe staff embrace and adhere to Wycliffe's beliefs and core values, all of which are essential to Wycliffe fulfilling its Bible translation mission.

Prayer undergirds Bible translation and is foundational to Wycliffe's work culture. Our work atmosphere provides numerous opportunities, individually and corporately, to actively live out your faith in Jesus Christ as you work heartily as to the Lord.

Come use your God-given gifts and contribute to what God is doing around the world through Bible translation!