Strategic Finance Manager

Summary

Join Tala, a leading social enterprise fintech company, as a Strategic Finance Manager! You will be a key player in our Strategic Finance team, driving data-driven decision-making and global corporate planning. This role requires building complex financial models, analyzing business problems, and creating insightful reports. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, monitor key business drivers, and investigate anomalies. The ideal candidate possesses a Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field, 4+ years of relevant experience, and advanced Excel and SQL skills. Tala offers a remote-first work environment and a mission-driven culture.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering or another quantitative field
• 4+ years of relevant experience in analytical roles - such as, strategy and operations, strategic finance, investment banking, private equity, and/or management consulting
• Excellent to Advanced proficiency in Excel and/or GSheets
• Excellent in SQL and/or data visualization tools (e.g. Looker, Amplitude, Tableau)
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence in an unstructured, cross-functional environment

Responsibilities

• Build complex financial and/or operating models, distill key learnings, and translate numbers into compelling and clear narratives
• Collect and decipher complex data, and be a highly innovative problem-solver
• Approach problems from different perspectives and use your holistic understanding of the business to see new opportunities/risks
• Serve as a proactive business partner across all markets and business functions (e.g., Growth, Product, Credit, Operations etc.)
• Dig deep and analyze complex business problems that will aid in driving strategic business decisions
• Build, update and monitor dashboards for different parts of the business and report insights from your analysis
• Monitor and analyze key drivers of the business (e.g. growth, repayment, conversion, CAC, cohort performance, unit economics/lifetime value of customer), and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive actionable insights
• Turn insights into digestible and actionable material for the rest of the team
• Investigate anomalies or unexpected business, operational and financial outcomes with a mindset to solve these issues

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience at a high-growth tech startup
• Completing a financial modeling course

Benefits

Remote-first approach