Lead Data Analyst (Finance)

Funding Societies | Modalku is the largest SME digital financing platform in Southeast Asia. We are licensed in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, and registered in Malaysia. We are backed by Sequoia India and Softbank Ventures Asia Corp amongst many others and provides business financing to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which is crowdfunded by individual and institutional investors. And here at Funding Societies | Modalku we live by our core values:

• Serve with Obsession: Build win-win relationships for the long-term by having a customer obsession.
• Grow Relentlessly: Strive to become our best, most authentic selves.
• Enable Teamwork, Disable Politics: Only by forging togetherness, we help each other succeed.
• Test Measure Act: Stay curious and reinvent ourselves, through innovation and experimentation.
• Focus on Impact: Create impact through bias for action and tangible results.

We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Lead Data Analyst - Finance to join our dynamic team at Funding Societies. As a lead data analyst, you will be part of a fun team which will be working to support all business functions with finance focus in Funding Societies. In short, the function of a data analyst is to understand the needs of the business and use data to derive a solution that you will then present, implement, and track and add value to the company and its performance. In addition to having a knack for problem-solving, it is crucial that you are willing to learn, understand, and hear the needs of our people.  We solve challenging problems. As long as you are adding value to the business, you are your own boss. You’ll get loads of support from your friendly, talented and motivated colleagues

What will you do:

• Lead, mentor & enable team members to drive a high performance team
• Ensure the timeliness and accuracy of Finance data analysts work for key projects such as finance audit, finance closing, regulatory & BAU reporting
• Pioneer and develop financial analysis capabilities within the data team, and perform some hands on analyses yourself to drive insights from multiple data sources
• Collaborate with regional Finance and various business teams, plan roadmap & quarterly OKR, drive projects and propose solutions and strategies to business challenges
• Establish best practices in coding & analytics solutions 
• Contribute to driving overall team process improvements through new frameworks, processes, and execution excellence 

What we are looking for:

Must-haves

• Qualifications Bachelor in finance and/or quantitative related disciplines or equivalent. 3-7 years of experience
• Good stakeholder management ability 
• Ability to be hands on and mentor team members problem solve 
• Prioritization skills
• Experience leading and managing team performance for at least 1 year
• Strong logical reasoning and analytical mind, with can-do attitude
• Independent learner who enjoys solving challenges (Google is your best friend)
• Outstanding communication and teamwork skills, with cross-departmental and cross-team projects experience, independently promoting project execution
• SQL, Python, visualization tools such as Tableau/Qlik experience required
• English is required

Good to have:

• Experience working in FinTech or financial industries highly preferred
• Experience in working on performance management, cost allocation, financial statement analysis, building financial model with basic accounting understanding is preferred
• Experience with agile methodology
• Understanding of ELT workflow

• Time off - We would love you to take time off to rest and rejuvenate. We offer flexible paid vacations as well as many other observed holidays by country. We also like to have our people take a day off for special days like birthdays and work anniversaries.
• Flexible Working - We believe in giving back the control of work & life to our people. We trust our people and love to provide the space to accommodate each and everyone's working style and personal life.
• Medical Benefits - We offer health insurance coverage for our employees and dependents. Our people focus on our mission knowing we have their back for their loved ones too.
• Mental Health and Wellness - We understand that our team productivity is directly linked to our mental and physical health. Hence we have Wellness Wednesdays and we engage partners to provide well-being coaching. And we have our Great FSMK Workout sessions too to keep everyone healthy and fit!
• Tech Support - We provide a company laptop for our employees and the best possible support for the right equipment/tools to enable high productivity