Tala
Director of Strategic Finance
US · Director
Sponsorship not specified$170k-$220kDetected 22 days ago
Product StrategyFinancial ModelingFinancial AnalysisForecastingLeadershipCommunicationProblem Solving
About the role
- The ideal candidate operates with significant autonomy, exercising strong judgment on decisions with financial, operational, or customer impact.
Responsibilities
- Strategic Business Partnering: Serve as the primary finance partner to the product team, providing financial guidance and support for strategic decision-making.
- Business Case Development: Partner with product team to create robust business cases for new product initiatives, features, and investments, evaluating potential ROI and financial impact.
- Financial Modeling & Forecasting: Develop and maintain sophisticated financial models to forecast revenue, costs, and profitability, ensuring accuracy and alignment with business objectives.
- Unit Economics: Partner with Product and Risk leadership to analyze cohort performance, lifetime value (LTV), customer acquisition costs (CAC), and pricing/packaging structures to maximize product gross margins.
- Cross-Team Integration: Create bridges between teams and ensure shared understanding. Provide ongoing updates to the Finance (Local and Global teams) and leadership team
- Demonstrated experience partnering closely with product leaders to build products at scale.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in business finance or other finance-focused competency experience
- Experience in managing multiple competing priorities effectively
- Expertise in financial modeling, forecasting, and business case development
- Strong understanding of financial statements
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex financial data into actionable insights.
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.
Compensation
- $170k-$220k
Company info
- to unleash the economic power of the global majority.
- We are looking for daring, data-driven leaders passionate about building the trust and credit infrastructure for the global majority.
- Our pioneering work and proven impact have earned us consistent recognition, including being named to: CNBC's Disruptor 50 for five years.
- CNBC's World's Top Fintech Companies for two consecutive years.
- Forbes' Fintech 50 list for nine consecutive years.
- Visionary investors, persuaded by the economic power of the global majority, have committed half a billion dollars in equity and debt to Tala's success.
- Given the global nature of our team, we operate on a remote-first approach with office hubs in Santa Monica, CA (HQ); Nairobi, Kenya; Mexico City, Mexico; Manila, the Philippines; and Bangalore, India.
- Most Talazens join us because they connect with our mission.
- If you are energized by the impact you can make at Tala, we'd love to hear from you!
- The Role We're looking for a highly motivated, analytical Director of Strategic Finance to join our Strategic Finance team as a critical business partner to Product.
- In this role, you'll help shape product strategy and drive profitability through rigorous financial analysis, forecasting, and strategic recommendations.
- About Tala Tala is AI-native credit infrastructure for the global majority, combining proprietary risk intelligence with an expanding network of capital and distribution partners to power credit access at scale.
- Backed by more than $500 million in funding, Tala has distributed more than $7 billion in capital to more than 13 million customers across Africa, Latin America, and Asia-building one of the most robust datasets on thin-file borrowers anywhere in the world.
- You'll bring advanced financial modeling skills along with the communication ability to influence business partners and decision-makers, both verbally and in writing.
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