Start-Up Financing Specialist

Funding Societies | Modalku is the largest SME digital financing platform in Southeast Asia, expanding into a leading SME neobank. We are licensed and registered in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and operating in Vietnam, and backed by Sequoia India, Softbank Vision Fund and SMBC bank amongst many others. Funding Societies | Modalku provides business financing to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which is funded by individual and institutional investors. And here at Funding Societies | Modalku we live by our core values GETFS:

• 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.
• Serve with Obsession: Build win-win relationships for the long-term by having a customer obsession.

In this Start-Up Financing Specialist role, associates will get the opportunity to showcase Startup Financing solutions under FS Capital on behalf of Funding Societies Pte Ltd as the best solution provider to meet our customers’ financing requirements and to grow together with their business. This role is critical as qualifying associates will be FS’s engine to help scale up new businesses with our existing and newly launched products.

What you will do:

• Solicit new business loan opportunities, focusing on Startup Financing, through active acquisition.
• Understand the business life cycle of SMEs to help them expand their reach and support their growth, translating customer’s objectives into Startup Financing solutions.
• Demonstrate basic credit knowledge with the ability to mitigate financing risk in the context of Startup Financing.
• Strong cross-team collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to nurture and grow new business in the Startup Financing sector.
• Telesales activities required.
• Achieve submission targets for Startup Financing as outlined in performance KPIs.
• Ensure timely submission of applications for Startup Financing.
• Minimize errors in Startup Financing submissions.
• Maintain weekly consistency in Startup Financing submissions.
• Ensure acceptance rate as outlined in the performance KPIs.
• Ensure client’s experience via effective feedback collection for continuous improvement. 

What we are looking for:

• Min 1 year experience in B2B (Need not be related to SME lending business).
• Curious self-starter with a growth mindset.
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize, and manage time effectively.
• Fluent in English.
• Ability to quickly learn and adapt to new product knowledge, specifically Startup Financing.
• Proactive, accountable, and solution-oriented working attitude.
• Ability to achieve quantitative KPIs related to Startup Financing submissions and disbursements.

Career Progression

• High Performance with strong sales potential: Move to BAM route (Sales Team)
• High Performance with potential in backend operations (e.g. reporting, sales support): Move to Executive, Acquisition & Support Role (Commercial Team)