Job description
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
We are seeking a highly proactive, results-driven, and team-oriented professional to join our team as a Sr. Manager, Capital Markets. This role is critical to help fuel our growth with flexible, low-cost capital and ensure liquidity as we continue to scale operations. Success in this role demands strong technical corporate finance skills, experience with debt and equity capital markets, and a track record of successful asset-based finance execution (acquired at a bank or fintech). We are a mission-driven team, and are seeking a collaborative individual to bring a critical thinking approach, combined with the ownership mindset of a builder: someone who thrives in ambiguity, learns independently, and communicates cross-functionally with clarity and initiative.
What You’ll Do
Support Deal Activities:
Help secure and maintain efficient and flexible capital (equity, debt, and warehouse) by identifying and attracting prospective investors, crafting an investor story for specific financing opportunities, evaluating structuring alternatives and making recommendations
Support the due diligence processes, executing and following through to deal closing.
Partner with legal, operations, and accounting teams to ensure deals are properly onboarded, accounted for, and documented
External Relations & Facility Management:
Support ongoing investor relations, investor/lender reporting, and relationships with banks, lenders, investors, and intermediaries
Support refinancing, upsizing, product, and underwriting enhancements as needed
Build and monitor dashboards and reports to track new loan origination, loan repayments, performance statistics and adherence to Tala lender contractual requirements
Support Capital Management & Corporate FP&A:
Partner with Finance, Accounting, and Treasury teams to ensure financings are modeled accurately in liquidity, risk, and financial planning forecasts
Develop short-term and long-term forecasts to assist in capital markets analyses and inform product strategy and credit underwriting processes for Tala’s lending origination
Build analytical models to evaluate capital structure decisions including financing, return of capital, liquidity planning, equity valuation, and credit ratings for review with senior leadership
Loan Portfolio Reporting & Technology Integration
Manage existing debt portfolio including covenant compliance and ensure proper alignment with risk management processes
Drive innovation by evaluating and implementing next-generation portfolio management software systems.
Support in building out loan ops capabilities to scale balance sheet lending and facilitate future securitization programs
Enhance Blockchain/Crypto Strategy
Explore blockchain and crypto-based solutions to enhance liquidity and tokenize balance sheet assets
Support Product team in developing relationships with blockchain market participants
Evaluate strategic use cases for stablecoins, tokenized assets, and digital wallets in collaboration with Legal and Compliance to ensure regulatory alignment
What You’ll Need
- 5+ years of investment banking, corporate finance, capital markets, or asset-based finance experience, with hands-on experience executing securitizations
- Proven ability to self-start and figure things out independently in dynamic, unstructured environments.
- Strong cross-functional communication skills
- Deep understanding of asset-based finance, debt structuring, fintech lending, payments, decentralized finance, stablecoins, asset tokenization and securitizations
- Proven ability to prepare financial models, internal and external investment memoranda (i.e. Confidential Information Memos and Ratings Agency Memos), manage investor diligence processes, and support in the negotiation of financing term sheets and deal documents
What Will Set You Apart
- Past success ramping quickly in a complex or global finance structure
- Experience building and maintaining relationships with investors, managing ongoing investor communications, and ad-hoc information requests
- Ability to contribute to all parts of the financing lifecycle, including the drafting of marketing materials, coordination of lender/investor diligence calls, preparation of term sheets, development of transaction documents in collaboration with legal teams, and transaction closing/funding mechanics
- Exposure to blockchain-based financing sources — including stablecoins, digital wallets, or cross-border crypto payments — and a clear understanding of their practical use cases and regulatory considerations
$175,000 - $220,000 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.
