Senior Accounting & Finance Data Analyst

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. Our mission is simple yet bold: 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 Tala zens 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

The Senior Accounting & Finance Data Analyst is the analytics owner for Tala 's accounting and finance reporting function across all markets (PH, KE, MX, GT, PA, VN, DO, IN). This role is responsible for the queries, data logic, and documentation behind monthly close reporting, statutory and tax reporting, and external audit support — work where correctness and traceability are non-negotiable because the outputs feed statutory filings and Big-4 audits.

Unlike a standard product analyst role, accounting and audit domain context is essential. The immediate mandate is to stabilize and fully document a currently under-documented reporting estate, ensure continuity through the 2026 external audit cycle, and help migrate this reporting onto governed, version-controlled infrastructure (Presentation Layer / dbt) while moving the function toward self-serve. The role partners daily with the Controllership/Accounting team and closely with Analytics Engineering.

What You'll Do

• Accounting & Audit Reporting Ownership

Own the queries and data logic behind monthly close reporting, tax reporting (VAT, DST, GRT and market equivalents), reserve/provisioning, transaction and cash-rollforward schedules across all markets.

Own delivery of external audit support: loan-level listing details, cash rollforward schedules, subsequent-collections and guarantee asset/liability reports, and ad-hoc auditor requests through the audit cycle.

• Ensure every report is traceable end to end — request, query, and final output connected and documented to an audit-ready standard.

Documentation, Governance & Migration

• Bring an under-documented estate up to a documentation-first standard: version-controlled queries (Git), clear lineage, and business-logic documentation that does not live in one person's head.
• Partner with Analytics Engineering to migrate reporting off legacy infrastructure (Business_DB) onto the Presentation Layer / dbt model with proper testing and version control.
• Maintain the accounting master report list as a living single source of truth linking each report to its query and output.

Reconciliation & Domain Rigor

• Own reconciliation logic and the "numbers must tie" standard — especially loan-level and cash-rollforward reconciliation, and partner/channeling reconciliation (e.g., Maya loan channeling).
• Handle multi-entity, multi-market regulatory variation, including fast-turnaround regulatory reporting (e.g., India RBI, often <3-day SLA).

What You'll Need

• 4–6 years in data/analytics roles with substantial experience in financial or accounting reporting .
• Expert SQL; fluency with Snowflake or equivalent cloud data warehouse; able to read, refactor, and document inherited queries and stored procedures.

Direct experience working with external auditors (Big-4 statutory audits preferred) — familiar with audit cycles, loan-level/reconciliation requests, and the documentation and traceability standard auditors require.

• Experience documenting business processes, reporting logic, and functional requirements to create repeatable, maintainable solutions.
• Mindset focused on standardization, scalability, and continuous process improvement, with an eye toward reducing manual work and increasing the reliability of Finance operations.
• Experience producing month-end close, tax, and regulatory reporting, ideally across multiple markets/entities.

Intermediate Python

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.

Originally posted on Himalayas