Finance Strategic Planning

Job description

**Who are we?** Amar Bank is one of the most technologically advanced digital banks in Indonesia. Our leading digital lending product, Tunaiku has the distinction of being the first FinTech product in Indonesia. We are also the first digital bank on the cloud. As the first profitable digital bank, we managed to get listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange. **How did we manage to do that?** We are changing people’s perception of a bank. We believe we are the innovators who combine customer focus principles with creating technology-based impact. We incorporate freedom and flexibility as part of our startup working culture DNA to encourage innovation in creating better financial solutions for the banking industry. We think of ourselves as, ‘A technology company with a banking license’. For this reason, we ‘Act like a FinTech, and think like a Bank.’ **How did it all start?** Founded on March 15, 1991, in Surabaya as PT Anglomas International Bank (Amin Bank), the bank was acquired by Tolaram Group and transformed to PT Bank Amar Indonesia (Amar Bank) in 2014. It has then undergone a significant digital transformation to become one of the country's forerunning fintech institutions through its award-winning digital lending platform, Tunaiku. **Our philosophy, mission, and vision** Technology must impact lives, must improve lives. We exist to provide banking to those who ‘need’ and not only to those who ‘want’. Services when provided to those who need at the time of their need brings smiles. Our vision is to bring 200 million smiles. **More about the bank with startup culture environment** Consist of 1000+ people, you will meet people who love to grow, dream big, and actually have fun at the workplace! We provide a great working environment that pushes people to grow outside their comfort zone. People with high drive and ambition find us a very attractive place to work as their career growth matches their own drive and not any staid policies. Thus we hold the honor of being awarded “Best Place to Work in Indonesia”. Recently Amar Bank was awarded as Inspirational Brand from APEA (Asia Pacific Enterprise Awards) 2022. Of course, our innovation won't stop here. So if you would love to be a part of it, have a growth mindset, and are constantly hungry for challenges, we invite you to join us in our journey to ‘Impact Lives’. **Join us today and create #unlimitedinnovations!** This position exists to ensure continuity, decision quality, and leadership depth by developing a data-driven leader who can step into multiple leadership roles if needed. ### Responsibilities: - **Turn data into decisions**: Build and maintain reliable KPI dashboards, conducting deep-dive analyses, and translate complex data into clear, actionable business insights. Ensure insights drive better decisions, as well as improved risk–return trade-offs. Proactively challenge opinion-based decisions with strong, data-driven perspectives. - **Communication & storytelling**: Synthesize insights into crisp slides, clear narratives, and decision-focused summaries. Present confidently to senior management and cross-functional forums. Adapt communication style effectively for technical teams, business leaders, and non-technical stakeholders. - **Cross-functional exposure**: Partner closely with other functions/circles to support cross-functional decision-making. Act as a neutral integrator to align teams on facts, clarify trade-offs, and enable faster, better decisions. Provide support beyond the KPI when the business impact is material. - **Strategic projects**: Support the execution of strategic initiatives by coordinating cross-functional teams, conducting relevant analyses and research, developing project plans, and tracking progress against key timelines and milestones. - **Stay current and raise the bar**: Continuously improve capabilities by learning and introducing useful (not merely trendy) tools, stronger techniques and better practices. Institutionalize these improvements into the team’s standard ways of working to consistently raise performance and impact. - **Leadership development & succession readiness**: Build leadership readiness by serving as a backup or interim owner for key data leadership roles and actively contributing to strategic projects, cross-functional task forces, and special assignments. Develop the capability to eventually lead a performance function. ### Requirements: - Minimum 4 years’ experience - Banking, consulting, or strategy experience will be significantly valued - Prior exposure to multiple functions is a strong advantage - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills - Deep technical foundation and comfort with data (ability to convert data into decisions) - Hands-on with excel / google sheets; familiarity with SQL/Python or Looker is a plus - Good communication, synthesis skills (crisp writing), and stakeholder storytelling - Systems thinker (sees interdependencies, not silos) - Strong attention to detail and structured thinking - Strong team player with high intent of getting things done - Strive for excellence; strong commitment to improve things every day - Ability to seek continuous feedback to deliver the most optimal solutions - Additional Points: Experience in evaluating new business growth opportunities and undertaking feasibility analysis, financial modelling