At Glints, we are building the #1 tech-enabled recruitment and career discovery platform in Southeast Asia that helps people and organisations realise their human potential by joining great organisations, learning the right skills and building great teams.
We’re looking for a Special Projects Intern - Strategic Finance & Operations to join our CEO Office team, to help grow our team across Asia.
The mission of this role is to solve strategic problems that arise in our scaling phase and assist in driving new projects through conducting rapid data analysis with fast turnarounds. You will be a key part of building new business units across Asia and scaling them from zero to one. You will report directly to our Special Projects Senior Associate or Lead in Singapore.
What You’ll Be Doing
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Corporate Strategy: Refining our strategic ambition, where to play, and how to win perspectives by running external and internal analysis; Identify and prioritize key value creation levers for the company and our clients (eg. customer retention); Corporate strategy projects include but are not limited to market expansion, GTM strategy, market sizing, organizational structure review, etc.
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Corporate Finance: Support day-to-day execution of M&A projects including but not limited to financial analysis, valuation, due diligence, structuring, documentation, and process management; Perform detailed sector scans on the human resource landscape to identify potential acquisition targets that will maximize ROI and realize synergies for Glints Perform financial and valuation analyses using various methodologies, including comparable company analysis, precedent transaction analysis and discounted cash flow DCF analysis.
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Fundraising and Financial Modeling: Build and refine complex financial models for business valuation, unit economics, and other critical indicators. Support fundraising activities with accurate, insightful data analysis. Examples of models and charts include financial models for business valuation, unit economics, whale charts, rule of 40 charts, and cricket charts.
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Other high-priority projects: Support other functional teams (Cross-Border commercial business, growth, product, tech & engineering) in driving important analysis to make business decisions or solve strategic problems; Analyze past data and develop simple models for key indicators and metrics; Examples of key indicators include: Client Lifetime Value (CLV), Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC), Efficiency-related metrics, Revenue Retention, Customer Concentration
Who We Are Looking For
- Past experience in Investment Banking, Corporate Finance, Strategic Finance, Management Consulting, Private Equity, or Business Analysis is highly preferred.
- Available full-time or part-time from November to December 2024
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Analytical and detail-oriented: comfortable in manipulating data, running analyses, and ensuring zero errors in your work.
- Excited about building and scaling new business units
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Proactive and solutions-driven: You take the initiative, flag issues, and propose creative solutions to complex problems.
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Growth mindset: You embrace challenges and are eager to learn and develop in a fast-paced environment.
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Collaborative: You thrive working with cross-functional teams across APAC
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Zero-defect mindset: Ensure no formula/Excel/PowerPoint formatting errors
- Immediate joiner is preferable
- Open to travel
Why You Should Join Us
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Gain exposure and drive impact: You will have exposure to cross-functional projects with close collaborations directly with key leaders in the organization
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Gain professional and personal growth: You will work alongside talented professionals across the region and gain experience in corporate strategy, finance, and operations
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Enjoy freedom and opportunities: You will be given freedom to experiment and iterate on ideas to learn and improve skills and results
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Global Exposure: Work on projects across multiple regions, expanding your international experience.
Let’s Realise Human Potential.
At Glints, we are building the #1 tech-enabled recruitment and career discovery platform in Southeast Asia that helps people and organizations realize their human potential.
We have impacted many lives but there’s still plenty to be done. If you’re ready to grow and make an impact, you’ve come to the right place.
What is Glints?
Glints is the leading talent ecosystem in Southeast Asia, with an enduring purpose of contributing to a world where people and organizations can realize their human potential.
Today, Glints is the most well-funded and well-capitalized startup in the talent recruitment space in Southeast Asia, with over US$80M in total investments raised till date.
Our tech-enabled approach to recruitment and career discovery connects more than 4 million candidates to their next dream opportunities. We have also supported more than 50,000 companies in finding top talent and doubling recruitment efficiency.
Our agility and firm hold on our core purpose and values have allowed us to remain resilient and thrive through tumultuous times.
In 2020, we were recognized by LinkedIn as one of the Top 10 Startups in Singapore. In 2022, we were featured in the top 20 of Nikkei-FT-Statista High-Growth Companies Asia-Pacific 2021 list. Moreover, we were also featured in the top 10 fastest-growing companies in Singapore by The Straits Times.
Who We Are
At Glints, personal and professional growth are just as important as business growth. That's why we created the Glints Culture Code: #RIIBCOH. It defines our values, guides our decisions and actions, and is what makes us special.
Relentlessly Resourceful: Whatever it takes, just make it happen (ethically)
Integrity: Have courage, be guided by the truth, don’t be afraid
Impact: Missionaries, not mercenaries
Beginners’ Mindset: Stay humble, don’t be attached to ego
Customer Obsessed: Customers First
Ownership: Care intensely about the mission and take responsibility
High Standards: Dream big and deliver epic outcomes fast
Where We Work
Since Glints was officially launched in Singapore in 2015, we've rapidly grown our footprint across Greater Southeast Asia to operate in Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, Taiwan, Malaysia and Philippines.
