Senior Accounting & Finance Data Analyst

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 to unleash the economic power of the global majority. We are a remote-first team with office hubs in Santa Monica, CA (HQ); Nairobi, Kenya; Mexico City, Mexico; Manila, the Philippines; and Bangalore, India.

About 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. The outputs feed statutory filings and Big-4 audits, so correctness and traceability are non-negotiable. The role requires accounting and audit domain expertise, with an immediate mandate to stabilize and document the reporting estate, ensure continuity through the 2026 external audit cycle, and migrate reporting onto governed, version-controlled infrastructure (Presentation Layer / dbt).

Responsibilities

• Accounting & Audit Reporting Ownership
  • Own the queries and data logic behind monthly close reporting, tax reporting (VAT, DST, GRT and market equivalents), reserve/provisioning, and transaction/cash-rollforward schedules across all markets.
  • Deliver external audit support, including loan-level listing details, cash rollforward schedules, subsequent-collections and guarantee asset/liability reports, and ad-hoc auditor requests.
  • 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.
  • 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, including 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).

Requirements

• 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 documentation standards.
• Experience documenting business processes, reporting logic, and functional requirements to create repeatable, maintainable solutions.
• Mindset focused on standardization, scalability, and continuous process improvement.
• Experience producing month-end close, tax, and regulatory reporting, ideally across multiple markets/entities.
• Intermediate Python.