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<b>About Tala</b> <br> Tala is on a mission to unleash the economic power of the Global Majority – the 4 billion people overlooked by existing financial systems. With nearly half a billion dollars raised from equity and debt, we are serving millions of customers across three continents. Tala has been named by the <i>Fortune </i>Impact 20 list, <i>CNBC</i>’s Disruptor 50 five years in a row, <i>CNBC</i>’s World's Top Fintech Company, <i>Forbes’ </i>Fintech 50 list for eight years running, and Chief's The New Era of Leadership Award. We are expanding across product offerings, countries and crypto and are looking for people who have an entrepreneurial spirit and are passionate about our <a href="http://mission.By" target="_blank">m</a>ission. <br> By creating a unique platform that enables lending and other financial services around the globe, people in emerging markets are able to start and expand small businesses, manage day-to-day needs, and pursue their financial goals with confidence. Currently, over nine million people across Kenya, the Philippines, Mexico, and India have used Tala products. Due to our global team, we have a remote-first approach, and also have offices in Santa Monica, CA (HQ); Nairobi, Kenya; Mexico City, Mexico; Manila, the Philippines; and Bangalore, India. <br> 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! <br> The Role  <br> Tala is a global technology company building the world’s most accessible financial services. As we undergo rapid growth—expanding across customers, markets, and products—we are seeking a strategic leader to ensure our plans are robust and our execution is disciplined. The Senior Manager, Strategy will play a pivotal role in shaping Tala's future direction. You will co-lead our strategic planning processes alongside Finance, ensuring multi-year strategies and annual plans translate effectively into clear, actionable goals. You'll build critical frameworks to enhance decision-making, drive improvements in our operating cadence, provide essential market intelligence, and foster cross-functional alignment—ultimately bridging the gap between strategy and execution and accelerating Tala's mission to expand financial access for millions globally.<h3>What You'll Do </h3> <ul> <li>Co-lead the development of Tala's multi-year strategies and AOP in partnership with Finance and leadership</li> <li>Build, implement, and operationalize robust frameworks to evaluate, size, scope, and prioritize strategic initiatives</li> <li>Manage and refine Tala's core operating cadence (e.g., business reviews) to enhance effectiveness, alignment, and decision-making speed</li> <li>Drive cross-functional alignment and execution discipline against strategic priorities, managing associated process improvements and change</li> <li>Establish processes for collaborating with local market teams to build and maintain a centralized view of competitive and market intelligence, ensuring quality and consistency</li> <li>Provide actionable insights derived from market intelligence to inform strategic planning and key decisions</li> </ul><h3>What You'll Need </h3> <ul> <li>5+ years of experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, business operations, investment banking, or a related analytical field, preferably within a high-growth tech or financial services environment</li> <li>Proven track record of significantly contributing to strategic planning processes (e.g., multi-year plans, AOP) and developing/implementing analytical frameworks for business case evaluation, prioritization, and decision-making</li> <li>Strong quantitative, analytical, and financial modeling skills; ability to synthesize complex information, identify key insights, and develop data-driven recommendations</li> <li>Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional projects and effectively influence and align diverse teams (e.g., Product, Finance, Engineering, Operations, Marketing) without direct authority</li> <li>Exceptional communication (written/verbal) and presentation skills; capable of articulating complex strategies, analyses, and recommendations clearly and concisely to executive leadership and broad stakeholder groups</li> <li>Deep understanding of goal-setting frameworks and the mechanisms required to connect strategic plans to operational execution and performance monitoring</li> <li>Proven ability to manage organizational change effectively, including stakeholder management, communication planning, and driving adoption of new processes or strategies</li> <li>High degree of comfort navigating ambiguity; ability to independently structure complex problems, develop hypotheses, and drive towards actionable solutions</li> <li>Strong business acumen and financial literacy, with experience working closely with Finance teams on planning, budgeting, and business case validation</li> <br> <b>Preferred Skills &amp; Experience:</b> <li>Deep understanding of the fintech landscape, consumer lending, or specific emerging markets where Tala operates</li> <li>Experience working in a global company with distributed teams</li> </ul>Our vision is to build a new financial ecosystem where everyone can participate on equal footing and access the tools they need to be financially healthy. We strongly believe that inclusion fosters innovation and we’re proud to have a diverse global team that represents a multitude of backgrounds, cultures, and experience. We hire talented people regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Tala

Senior Manager, Strategy

<b>About Tala</b> <br> Tala is on a mission to unleash the economic power of the Global Majority – the 4 billion people overlooked by existing financial systems. With nearly half a billion dollars raised from equity and debt, we are serving millions of customers across three continents. Tala has been named by the <i>Fortune </i>Impact 20 list, <i>CNBC</i>’s Disruptor 50 five years in a row, <i>CNBC</i>’s World's Top Fintech Company, <i>Forbes’ </i>Fintech 50 list for eight years running, and Chief's The New Era of Leadership Award. We are expanding across product offerings, countries and crypto and are looking for people who have an entrepreneurial spirit and are passionate about our <a href="http://mission.By" target="_blank">m</a>ission. <br> By creating a unique platform that enables lending and other financial services around the globe, people in emerging markets are able to start and expand small businesses, manage day-to-day needs, and pursue their financial goals with confidence. Currently, over nine million people across Kenya, the Philippines, Mexico, and India have used Tala products. Due to our global team, we have a remote-first approach, and also have offices in Santa Monica, CA (HQ); Nairobi, Kenya; Mexico City, Mexico; Manila, the Philippines; and Bangalore, India. <br> 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! <br> The Role  <br> We're seeking a highly motivated and analytical Senior Finance Manager to join our Strategic finance team and become a critical business partner to our product team. In this role, you'll play a pivotal part in driving product strategy and profitability by providing insightful financial analysis, forecasting, and strategic recommendations. An ideal candidate operates with significant autonomy and independence, showing high judgment in decisions that have financial, business, operational, or customer implications. This candidate will have advanced financial modeling skills and the ability and the ability to influence the decisions of business partners through effective verbal and written communication.<h3>What You'll Do </h3> <ul> <li> <b>Strategic Business Partnering:</b> Serve as the primary finance partner to the product team, providing financial guidance and support for strategic decision-making.</li> <li> <b>Business Case Development: </b>Partner with product team to create robust business cases for new product initiatives, features, and investments, evaluating potential ROI and financial impact.</li> <li> <b>Financial Modeling &amp; Forecasting:</b> Develop and maintain sophisticated financial models to forecast product revenue, costs, and profitability, ensuring accuracy and alignment with business objectives.</li> <li> <b>Performance &amp; ROI Analysis:</b> Evaluate ROI and analyze product performance against targets, identify key trends, and provide actionable insights to drive product optimization and growth.</li> <li> <b>Reporting &amp; Communication:</b> Prepare and present clear and concise financial reports and insights to senior management, facilitating effective communication and decision-making.</li> <li>Create bridges between teams and ensure shared understanding. Provide ongoing updates to the Finance (Local and Global teams) and leadership team</li> <li>Work closely with accounting to ensure accurate product-related financial reporting.</li> </ul><h3>What You'll Need </h3> <ul> <li>5+ years of experience in business finance, forecast &amp; budgeting, or other finance-focused competency experience</li> <li>Demonstrated experience partnering closely with product managers to build products at scale.</li> <li>Experience in managing multiple competing priorities effectively</li> <li>Strategic thinking with demonstrated business judgement and quantitative skills</li> <li>Expertise in financial modeling, forecasting, and business case development</li> <li>Strong understanding of financial statements</li> <li>Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex financial data into actionable insights.</li> <li>Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.</li> </ul>Our vision is to build a new financial ecosystem where everyone can participate on equal footing and access the tools they need to be financially healthy. We strongly believe that inclusion fosters innovation and we’re proud to have a diverse global team that represents a multitude of backgrounds, cultures, and experience. We hire talented people regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Senior Strategic Finance Manager

<b>About Tala</b> <br> Tala is on a mission to unleash the economic power of the Global Majority – the 4 billion people overlooked by existing financial systems. With nearly half a billion dollars raised from equity and debt, we are serving millions of customers across three continents. Tala has been named by the <i>Fortune </i>Impact 20 list, <i>CNBC</i>’s Disruptor 50 five years in a row, <i>CNBC</i>’s World's Top Fintech Company, <i>Forbes’ </i>Fintech 50 list for eight years running, and Chief's The New Era of Leadership Award. We are expanding across product offerings, countries and crypto and are looking for people who have an entrepreneurial spirit and are passionate about our <a href="http://mission.By" target="_blank">m</a>ission. <br> By creating a unique platform that enables lending and other financial services around the globe, people in emerging markets are able to start and expand small businesses, manage day-to-day needs, and pursue their financial goals with confidence. Currently, over nine million people across Kenya, the Philippines, Mexico, and India have used Tala products. Due to our global team, we have a remote-first approach, and also have offices in Santa Monica, CA (HQ); Nairobi, Kenya; Mexico City, Mexico; Manila, the Philippines; and Bangalore, India. <br> 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! <br> The Role  <br> Tala is seeking an experienced, impact-driven leader to head our Global Fraud Strategy team. As Director of Global Fraud Strategy, you will report to the SVP of Credit &amp; Fraud Risk and lead the development of a comprehensive fraud prevention and mitigation strategy. This role is critical to safeguarding Tala’s customers and business while enabling growth across markets and products. The ideal candidate combines strategic thinking, data-driven decision-making, and team leadership, with a proven ability to combat fraud in consumer lending using best-in-class technology.<h3>What You'll Do </h3> <ul> <li>Lead the development and implementation of Tala’s global fraud strategy, encompassing all aspects of fraud prevention, detection, and response across loan portfolios</li> <li>Create visibility throughout Tala into our fraud strategy and opportunities, including obtaining buy-in from and influencing other key leaders in the organization</li> <li>Conduct in-depth analysis of portfolio and industry fraud trends to identify emerging risks and vulnerabilities</li> <li>Stay abreast of industry best practices, technology, and regulatory developments in the fraud space and incorporate them into Tala’s approach to fraud</li> <li>Oversee the execution of fraud prevention and detection initiatives, partnering closelywith key stakeholders, including Credit Strategy, Product, Engineering, Operations, Data Science, Legal/Compliance, and Engineering teams to deliver effective solutions</li> <li>Define and monitor key performance indicators that provide visibility into fraud in Tala’s portfolios and the ability to measure the effectiveness of fraud prevention efforts</li> <li>Anticipate the need for evolution in our fraud risk mitigation strategy as part of Tala’s planned market and product growth</li> <li>Build, manage, and mentor a high-performing, global team of fraud professionals</li> </ul><h3>What You'll Need </h3> <ul> <li>8+ years experience in fraud prevention strategy, preferably in the consumer finance/fintech industry</li> <li>Proven track record of developing and implementing successful fraud prevention strategies</li> <li>Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate patterns from large datasets into digestible and actionable insights that inform strategy</li> <li>Proficiency in SQL and Python</li> <li>Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and build consensus across different levels and functions</li> <li>Experience managing and developing high-performing teams</li> <li>Outcome-oriented mindset with a strong bias for action</li> <li>Bachelor’s degree in finance, engineering, statistics, or other related discipline</li> <li>Comfort working and effectively communicating in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with a global team</li> <li>Experience defining and driving a roadmap based on company performance goals</li> <li>A curiosity that will enable you to digest the Tala loan product business model quickly and find opportunities to create value</li> </ul>Our vision is to build a new financial ecosystem where everyone can participate on equal footing and access the tools they need to be financially healthy. We strongly believe that inclusion fosters innovation and we’re proud to have a diverse global team that represents a multitude of backgrounds, cultures, and experience. We hire talented people regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Director, Global Fraud Strategy

<b>About Tala</b> <br> Tala is on a mission to unleash the economic power of the Global Majority – the 4 billion people overlooked by existing financial systems. With nearly half a billion dollars raised from equity and debt, we are serving millions of customers across three continents. Tala has been named by the <i>Fortune </i>Impact 20 list, <i>CNBC</i>’s Disruptor 50 five years in a row, <i>CNBC</i>’s World's Top Fintech Company, <i>Forbes’ </i>Fintech 50 list for eight years running, and Chief's The New Era of Leadership Award. We are expanding across product offerings, countries and crypto and are looking for people who have an entrepreneurial spirit and are passionate about our <a href="http://mission.By" target="_blank">m</a>ission. <br> By creating a unique platform that enables lending and other financial services around the globe, people in emerging markets are able to start and expand small businesses, manage day-to-day needs, and pursue their financial goals with confidence. Currently, over nine million people across Kenya, the Philippines, Mexico, and India have used Tala products. Due to our global team, we have a remote-first approach, and also have offices in Santa Monica, CA (HQ); Nairobi, Kenya; Mexico City, Mexico; Manila, the Philippines; and Bangalore, India. <br> 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! <br> The Role  We are seeking a Senior Data Scientist – Causal Inference to tackle one of the world’s most pressing issues: financial inclusion. In this role, you will lead high-impact data science initiatives aimed at uncovering cause-and-effect relationships. Your efforts will drive strategic decision-making, optimize credit products, enhance customer experiences, and improve financial operations.  <br> You will manage the entire modeling process, from defining problems and developing causal models to deployment, evaluation, and continuous monitoring. Your expertise in causal inference, experimentation, and collaboration with stakeholders will be crucial in ensuring that data-driven insights lead to measurable business impact. <br>  As a customer-focused leader, you will independently drive data science initiatives that align with Tala’s mission of unleashing the economic power of the global majority. Your work will directly contribute to expanding financial access, improving credit outcomes, and shaping the future of inclusive finance.<h3>What You'll Do </h3> <ul> <li>Embed with business stakeholders to identify, test, and implement data science solutions with a particular focus on econometric models, experiments, and frameworks to assess challenging causal problems such as lifetime value or retention.</li> <li>Develop a roadmap in collaboration with stakeholders to organize and prioritize initiatives.</li> <li>Own full-cycle machine learning products from ideation and training to deployment into our production environment, including real-time inference and after-sale service. Obsess over machine learning products, deploying and iterating rapidly when necessary.</li> <li>Propose, design, and analyze large-scale online experiments and support business stakeholders with experimental design best practices.</li> <li>Become a multiplier for the data science team by sharing work, providing mentorship to junior team members, providing technical feedback, and developing work into shared team tooling.</li> <li>Be a thought partner for the business, leverage data insights and strong communication skills to influence company strategy. Develop roadmaps in collaboration with stakeholders to organize and prioritize initiatives.</li> </ul><h3>What You'll Need </h3> <ul> <li>4+ years of experience in a data science role or equivalent position.</li> <li>2+ years in a senior/lead position leading the execution of end-to-end machine learning solutions for business stakeholders.</li> <li>Fluency with Python and packages related to machine learning.</li> <li>Comfort with SQL.</li> <li>Experience with the full modeling cycle, from scoping and development through deployment, after-sale, and monitoring. Demonstrated delivery of business value in previous roles. </li> <li>Competency with statistics. Knowledge of experimental design and analysis. Previous experience with causal modeling techniques.</li> <li>Strong collaboration and communication skills. Ability to tell stories through data and effective visualization. </li> <li>Ability to thrive in, at times, ambiguous and complex environments.</li> <li>Desire to champion simple, robust systems and to deploy and iterate as needed.</li> </ul>Our vision is to build a new financial ecosystem where everyone can participate on equal footing and access the tools they need to be financially healthy. We strongly believe that inclusion fosters innovation and we’re proud to have a diverse global team that represents a multitude of backgrounds, cultures, and experience. We hire talented people regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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