Funding Societies | Modalku is the largest SME digital finance platform in Southeast Asia. We are licensed and operating in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam, and backed by Sequoia India (Peak XV), Softbank Vision Fund, Khazanah 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, as well as payments solutions to SMEs and consumers.
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.
We are seeking a highly capable, strategic, and execution-driven leader to support the Country Head in driving cross-team alignment, accelerating strategic initiatives, managing key partnerships, and improving organizational effectiveness across Funding Societies Malaysia. As a strategic partner to the Country Head, this role enables a sharper focus on priority of commercial, operational, product, and strategic domains.
The ideal candidate will not only shape and execute high impact initiatives but will also bring versatile leadership to proactively strengthen key areas alongside the Country Head , in stabilizing and elevating functions to ensure continuity and long term success.
What you will do:
1. Cross-Functional Leadership & Strategy Execution
- Drive alignment and cross-learning across multiple sales and business development teams focusing on different products and SME segments.
- Identify, prioritize, and implement commercial and operational improvement initiatives that drive revenue, risk-adjusted returns, and productivity.
- Develop and maintain dashboards and performance reviews with functional leaders to ensure consistent delivery of targets and KPIs.
- Collaborate with FP&A to track business performance and support commercial budgeting processes.
- Provide hands-on, targeted leadership for priority initiatives where functional alignment is needed.
2. SME & Institutional Partnerships
- Create strategy and roadmap for strategic partnerships across Malaysia-based SME ecosystems, including digital banks, fintech platforms, and ecosystem enablers, enabling sales teams.
- Serve as the relationship lead for partners whose engagement spans multiple segments, products, or investor bases.
- Structure, negotiate, and operationalize partnership models to drive mutual value and scalability.
3. Product & Innovation Leadership
- Act as commercial and operational lead for select financial product verticals, collaborating with Group Product, Credit, and Risk teams to shape roadmaps, pricing strategies, and go-to-market approaches.
4. Strategic Projects & Business Growth
- Drive key strategic initiatives on behalf of the Country Head or Group Leadership, including new product launches, market expansion efforts, and programs designed to boost revenue growth and enhance overall financial performance.
- Support the development of strategic business plans and investor narratives, working closely with internal and external stakeholders.
