Senior Accounting & Finance Data Analyst

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