Corporate Development Manager

**Description**
**Funding Societies | Modalku** is the largest SME digital financing platform in Southeast Asia. We are licensed in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, and registered in Malaysia. We are backed by Sequoia India and Softbank Ventures Asia Corp amongst many others and provides business financing to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which is crowdfunded by individual and institutional investors. And here at Funding Societies | Modalku we live by our core values:

- **Serve with Obsession**:Build win-win relationships for the long-term by having a customer obsession.
- **Grow Relentlessly**: Strive to become our best, most authentic selves.
- **Enable Teamwork, Disable Politics**:Only by forging togetherness, we help each other succeed.
- **Test Measure Act**: Stay curious and reinvent ourselves, through innovation and experimentation.
- **Focus on Impact**:Create impact through bias for action and tangible results.

The **Corporate Strategy Manager** will drive Funding Societies’ strategic projects such as strategy development, (programmatic) M&A, business roadmap, portfolio reviews and post-merger integration. Aside from this, the professional will facilitate strategy offsites with senior management. The professional will deeply understand the business its current capabilities and the long-term strategy (geographic and product), with potential future P&L responsibility.
**What you will do**:

- Lead strategic projects as the strategy business partner for our business leads and execute them to fruition, as a hands-on execution leader
- Conduct market entry study, M&A strategy and high-level business roadmaps including revenue pools, macro data, competitive landscape and regulatory landscapeEducate team with strategic analyses of latest global macro trends and synthesized actionable “So Whats”, communicated in a Minto pyramid and data-driven manner
- Work with CFO and CEO on equity fundraising equity, developing pitch decks, financial/ valuation analyses and financial modeling
- Keep abreast with key competitors and leading global comparable, breaking down their business models, and synthesizing key insights as well as developments
- Identify acquisition and investment targets, lead negotiation and due diligence, and work with external service providers (e.g., audit firms) and the deal captain where relevant
- Conduct post-merger integration (PMI) with invested firms to ensure smooth integration and/ or achievement of strategic goals. Work with FP&A team and CFO to monitor performance

**Requirements**:
**What we are looking for**:

- 6+ years of relevant experience in the Strategy and/or Corporate Development area. Preferably with a strategy consultant, high growth company, or a FinTech
- Experience at the Big 3 strategy consultants (MBB), or equivalent, would be an advantage
- Understanding of how banks and financial services work
- Experience working in both a start-up or small company environment, as well as a big corporate
- Advanced modeling (incl. pivot tables, data tables) and presentation skills

**You will shine in this role is you are/you have**:

- Ability to lead senior-level conversations, but also roll-up sleeves and work on the ground
- Obsessed with MECE structured thinking, “so what” synthesis and pyramid-based story telling
- Outstanding communication and inter-personal skills
- Highly analytical, impact-focused and data-driven (comfortable with precision and 80-20)
- Validated performance in a high pressure, high growth environment

**What it is in for you**:

- High impact role with large mandate
- High visibility both in and outside the company
- Large exposure to CEO, CFO and other C-level

**Benefits**
- **Time off**:

- We would love you to take time off to rest and rejuvenate. We offer flexible paid vacations as well as many other observed holidays by country. We also like to have our people take a day off for special days like birthdays and work anniversaries.
- **Flexible Working** - We believe in giving back the control of work & life to our people. We trust our people and love to provide the space to accommodate each and everyone's working style and personal life.
- **Medical Benefits** - We offer health insurance coverage for our employees and dependents. Our people focus on our mission knowing we have their back for their loved ones too.
- **Mental Health and Wellness** - We understand that our team productivity is directly linked to our mental and physical health. Hence we have Wellness Wednesdays and we engage partners to provide well-being coaching. And we have our Great FSMK Workout sessions too to keep everyone healthy and fit
- **Learning & Development** - We believe learning should never end and we support everyone with self-learning L&D allowances.
- **Tech Support** - We provide a company laptop for our employees and the best possible support for the right equipment/tools to enable high productivity