Finance Strategist

Wycliffe Bible Translators USA • Orlando, FL

1d • Onsite

About The Position

At Wycliffe Bible Translators, the Finance Strategist serves as a bridge between Finance teams, including Payroll, Gift Processing, and Corporate Accounting, and cross-functional departments. This role is responsible for implementing systems and strategies that strengthen financial operations and support organizational effectiveness, playing a pivotal role in advancing operational excellence and stewardship. The strategist will leverage experience 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. This involves translating complex issues into clear actionable solutions, bringing clarity and consistency through strategic centralized intake, analysis, and prioritization of payroll and other finance-related initiatives. The role requires strategic thinking, strong analytical and communication skills, and operational follow-through to foster collaboration, adaptability, and integrity, while providing essential support for Bible translation efforts worldwide. The Finance team at Wycliffe USA is crucial for advancing Bible translation by wisely stewarding resources and supporting its global workforce. This includes Corporate Accounting, Gift Processing, Member Finance, Foundation, and Payroll, all contributing to the shared mission through trusted financial services that enable ministry impact globally. The team adopts a relational approach, grounded in integrity, diligence, and a desire to serve well, focusing on operational excellence and ongoing growth to equip the organization to serve the global Church faithfully and sustainably.

Requirements

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with accuracy and attention to detail.
• Demonstrates good judgment with strong decision-making skills.
• 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.
• Understands the importance of confidentiality and works in a manner that maintains the highest level of trust with customers, staff and colleagues.
• 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.
• 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.
• Able to work autonomously and make independent decisions.
• High-energy self-starter, driven to achieve results.
• Seizes opportunities to enhance organizational performance.
• 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).
• Bachelor’s degree in statistics, mathematics, accounting, finance, or a related field.
• 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.
• Demonstrate a personal commitment to Jesus Christ, as evidenced by your personal testimony.
• Identify with and participate in a church and proactively seek to grow your faith in Christ.
• Establish and maintain a team of prayer partners who will support you in your season of ministry at Wycliffe (minimum 3-5 partners).
• Actively participate in corporate prayer and devotional times.
• Maintain an exemplary standard of biblical ethics, behavior and conduct within Wycliffe and in your public and private life outside of Wycliffe.
• Agree to abide by Wycliffe’s ethics, behavior and conduct standards at all times.
• Demonstrate Christ-like maturity in all interactions as displayed by good judgment based on biblical values and principles.
• Actively incorporate your faith in Christ, as well as Wycliffe’s beliefs and core values, in all aspects of your daily work.
• Follow Christ faithfully, allowing Scripture to guide decisions, and continually grow in relationship with God and His people.
• Collaborate intentionally to accomplish work goals, demonstrating a commitment to cross-departmental, inter-organizational and cross-cultural teamwork.
• Demonstrate a dedication to personal and professional growth within a culture that values continuous learning, individually and collectively.
• Participate in God’s work, stewarding His resources responsibly with urgency and excellence.
• Seek to discern where and how God is at work. Align our efforts with His purposes.

Responsibilities

• Faithfully and regularly pray for the ongoing work of Bible translation and for people from around the world to experience transformation.
• Act as an organizational representative presenting the global ministry of Wycliffe and encouraging interested individuals, organizations and churches to participate in the work of Bible translation.
• Collaborate on departmental initiatives to provide a best-in-class experience for Wycliffe USA future and existing staff.
• Assist with cross-functional team responsibilities and tactical team/departmental initiatives.
• Represent the Finance team in meetings, projects, workshops and partnership efforts, as assigned.
• 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.
• Evaluate and improve financial processes by identifying risks, inefficiencies, and opportunities, and by developing clear workflows, controls, and operating procedures aligned with organizational strategy.
• Assess and respond to policy, system, and regulatory changes, designing mitigation solutions and communicating impacts and expectations to stakeholders.
• Strengthen team capability and operational consistency through training, knowledge‑sharing, and clear guidance on process changes and best practices.
• Enhance Workday and related financial systems by ensuring data integrity and partnering with HRIS and technical teams to prioritize, design, test, and implement system updates that improve financial operations.
• Oversee budgeting and planning systems to ensure Finance has the tools needed to support long-range priorities.
• Collaborate with Finance leadership to strengthen budgeting methods, improve data quality, and expand reporting insights for strategic decision‑making.
• Continuously enhance Finance systems and services to meet Wycliffe’s growing organizational and ministry needs.
• Support the Controller by improving liquidity management and treasury strategy to strengthen decision-making and long-term sustainability.
• Collaborate closely with Global Partnership Engagement (GPE) staff to ensure sound coordination and alignment between Finance and partnership development efforts.
• Support global and multi-entity payroll needs while ensuring compliance, adherence to timing requirements, and cultural considerations.
• Provide advisory guidance and support on payroll and finance operations best practices.
• Serve as the primary intake and triage point for payroll and finance-related Workday requests, enhancements, and issues.
• Ensure payroll and finance data integrity, audit readiness, and reporting accuracy.
• Strengthen internal controls for payroll and financial operations.
• Monitor compliance with payroll, tax, and financial regulations.
• Promote consistency, accountability, and transparency across operations.
• Conduct periodic risk assessments to identify control gaps and recommend corrective actions that strengthen financial governance.
• Implement monitoring practices to ensure adherence to internal policies, donor requirements, and organizational accountability standards.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Controller and Vice President of Finance.
• Adjust work schedule as needed to accommodate meetings across time zones.
• Ensure access to a strong, reliable internet and phone connection.

Benefits

• 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.
• Regular spiritual development, worship, prayer, community gatherings and connection opportunities for all staff in all locations.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees