Thank you Delphine
Tomer
WMIL
2012/2/28 Delphine Ménard <delphine.menard(a)wikimedia.de>
Hi Tomer,
I'll actually add some to what Sebastian wrote on a particular point:
Le 24/02/2012 16:50, Sebastian Moleski a écrit :
On 23.02.2012 20:25, Tomer Ashur wrote:
4. Given that you have a paid staff person to
handle the day-to-day
financial activities, what does your treasurer do?
The Treasurer's job is mostly to work with Pavel on the financial
aspects of annual plan and of the annual report. She's also tasked to be
the voice of caution and concern (as any good Treasurer is) during board
deliberations.
I have been treasurer of Wikimedia France twice, in 2006 and 2009. I am
now treasurer of Wikimedia Deutschland. To give you an idea, WMFR had a
budget of about 5000 EUR in 2006, for a donation revenue of 20 000 EUR,
and 75 000 EUR in 2009, for a revenue of about 200 000 EUR. WMDE has a
budget of about 3 Million EUR.
At Wikimedia France, I was alone doing the treasurer work, and I must say
that 2009 was a difficult year for me as a volunteer, because it was much
harder to keep up than in 2006, obviously.
In a way, being the treasurer of a 3 million EUR organisation is much
easier than being that of a 75 000 EUR organisation, because indeed, you
have staff doing the ground work.
It is, however, at least to me, much more challenging, as well as
rewarding and interesting.
Challenging because the annual planning is just way bigger in scope and
thus brings with it more responsibilities both in the making of it and the
overseeing of it being implemented. Rewarding and interesting because the
impact is greater of course, but also because I enjoy strategic planning
more than I do sheer accounting, and strategy is what my role today entails.
I find my work at Wikimedia France, however, has helped me immensely in
understanding better how a Wikimedia organisation works on the financial
level, what challenges it faces and what opportunites are there to grab.
Being the treasurer of a fast growing organisation at two different points
in time has also taught me a lot about transparency, accountability and
financial audit (the French legal financial frame is extremely demanding
for an organisation that raises more than 150 000 EUR), which I bring with
me to Wikimedia Deutschland.
But if you have the choice, go for the 3 million organisation, it's much
easier combing through financial reports made by professionals than trying
to issue one yourself that looks professional ;).
Cheers,
Delphine
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