Senior Manager, Strategy

2 Months ago • 5 Years + • $130,000 PA - $204,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Senior Manager, Strategy will play a pivotal role in shaping Tala's future direction. They will co-lead strategic planning with Finance, ensuring multi-year strategies and annual plans translate into actionable goals. The role involves building frameworks for decision-making, improving operating cadence, providing market intelligence, and fostering cross-functional alignment. This is to bridge the gap between strategy and execution and accelerate Tala's mission to expand financial access globally. Responsibilities include co-leading multi-year strategies, building frameworks for strategic initiatives, managing operating cadence, driving cross-functional alignment, establishing market intelligence processes, and providing actionable insights.
Must have:
  • 5+ years in management consulting or related field.
  • Experience with strategic planning processes.
  • Strong quantitative, analytical, and financial modeling skills.
  • Ability to lead cross-functional projects and influence teams.
  • Exceptional communication and presentation skills.
  • Deep understanding of goal-setting frameworks.
  • Ability to manage organizational change effectively.
  • High comfort level with ambiguity and complex problem-solving.
Good to have:
  • Deep understanding of the fintech landscape.
  • Experience working in a global company.

Job Details

About Tala

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 Fortune Impact 20 list, CNBC’s Disruptor 50 five years in a row, CNBC’s World's Top Fintech Company, Forbes’ 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 mission.

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.

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

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.

What You'll Do

    • Co-lead the development of Tala's multi-year strategies and AOP in partnership with Finance and leadership
    • Build, implement, and operationalize robust frameworks to evaluate, size, scope, and prioritize strategic initiatives
    • Manage and refine Tala's core operating cadence (e.g., business reviews) to enhance effectiveness, alignment, and decision-making speed
    • Drive cross-functional alignment and execution discipline against strategic priorities, managing associated process improvements and change
    • Establish processes for collaborating with local market teams to build and maintain a centralized view of competitive and market intelligence, ensuring quality and consistency
    • Provide actionable insights derived from market intelligence to inform strategic planning and key decisions

What You'll Need

    • 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
    • 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
    • Strong quantitative, analytical, and financial modeling skills; ability to synthesize complex information, identify key insights, and develop data-driven recommendations
    • 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
    • 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
    • Deep understanding of goal-setting frameworks and the mechanisms required to connect strategic plans to operational execution and performance monitoring
    • Proven ability to manage organizational change effectively, including stakeholder management, communication planning, and driving adoption of new processes or strategies
    • High degree of comfort navigating ambiguity; ability to independently structure complex problems, develop hypotheses, and drive towards actionable solutions
    • Strong business acumen and financial literacy, with experience working closely with Finance teams on planning, budgeting, and business case validation

    • Preferred Skills & Experience:
    • Deep understanding of the fintech landscape, consumer lending, or specific emerging markets where Tala operates
    • Experience working in a global company with distributed teams
$130,000 - $204,000 a year
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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