Business Intelligence Intern

Aspire is the leading all-in-one finance operating system for growing businesses in APAC. We are on a mission to reinvent business finance for a new generation of entrepreneurs and business owners, empowering startups and MSME to realise their full potential. 

Founded in 2018, Aspire has raised over USD 300M+ across equity and debt from world-class investors. In 2023, we successfully closed an oversubscribed USD 100 million Series C equity round led by Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Ventures with participation of Tencent, Paypal Ventures, LGT Capital Partners, Picus Capital and MassMutual Ventures. To power our solutions, we have partnered with some of the best companies in the world such as Visa and Wise and helped more than 50,000 businesses using our suite of products.

For 2 consecutive years in 2022 & 2023, Aspire has been awarded Best Employer of the Year and Startup of the year by Asia FinTech Awards, and also LinkedIn’s Top Startup in Singapore. In 2023, we also made it to CB Insights’ Top 100 Global Fintech List. 

You will be amazed by the energy and experience of our team! Aspire serves as an environment for you to innovate and drive change with our team of ex-entrepreneurs, ex-founders, and high-achievers with international and diverse backgrounds.

Are you a top talent who is passionate about entrepreneurship? Join our rapidly growing team to make an impact in the fintech space! 

About the Team:

At Aspire, Finance plays a strategic role in driving our business forward. Our Finance team consists of a wide range of crucial functions across 4 verticals: (i) Traditional Finance with Accounting, Tax, Reporting, (ii) Treasury, which is a core function for a Fintech, (iii) Data including Business Intelligence, Data Analytics and Data Engineering and (iv) Strategy & Planning, which covers strategic road map, long term planning, fundraising and FP&A. Our Finance team engages in frequent strategic data analysis, research, and modeling to provide the best financial insights for critical business decisions, helping Aspire navigate the competitive landscape and capitalize on emerging opportunities. The team also plays a key part as the first user of our Aspire software, pioneer in Finance transformation, reengineering our internal process to stay agile while maintaining the internal control in a hyper fast growing environment.

About the Role

At Aspire, we pride ourselves on building an amazing team. We require a Business Intelligence Intern to join our very talented lineup. As a Business Intelligence Intern, you will be involved in helping develop scalable processes & grow the company operations. The right person takes initiative, likes to learn & deals with integrity. This is a great opportunity for someone wanting to work to make a difference to your community with talented & motivated team members in a diverse, energetic workplace; and a company dedicated to your success, growth and advancement.

Responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Build dashboards, identify new and track key metrics to closely monitor team’s performance and identify quick and long term opportunities for improvements
• Support business performance evaluation to internal and external parties
• Translate business needs to technical specifications
• Design, build and deploy BI solutions
• Own the visual storytelling of the data, the ability to mine business insights from data and transform insights into action plans
• Maintain and support data analytics platforms
• Evaluate and improve existing BI systems
• Support ad-hoc data requests from various teams and assist in building necessary dashboards
• Automate reports by optimizing the data query process
• Ensure metrics and definitions are aligned across the organization

Minimum Qualifications: 

• Ideally be able to commit full-time/part-time for 3 to 6 months from January 2025
• Undergraduate majoring in Business, Finance, Analytics or Technology
• Mandatory SQL knowledge to create scripts for data warehouse
• Experience in any business intelligence tool, Tableau preferred, for data visualization and dashboard creation
• Proficient in Excel/Google sheets and creating complex reports with ease
• Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience in Python with statistical knowledge in using packages such as scikit-learn, matplotlib, seaborn, pandas and NumPy for analyzing datasets
• Structured, and critical and analytical thinking
• Effective planning, organizational and communication skills
• Able to work independently and with minimal supervision

What we offer

• Uncapped flexible annual leave.
• Hybrid work arrangement. 
• Training subsidy for your professional growth.
• Wellness benefit.
• Team bonding budget to foster collaboration and sense of belonging.
• Flexibility to work from anywhere (for up to 90 days per annum).
• Culture is Key: We always strive to cultivate a special culture that brings special talents together - You can learn more about our culture on our careers site and LinkedIn Life page.
  

Equal Opportunity Statement 

Aspire is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by applicable laws. 

Please note: by submitting your application, you acknowledge that you have read and understood Aspire’s Data Protection Policy for Employees, Freelancers, Contractors and Job Applicants (the “Policy”), and consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal data by Aspire for the purposes set out in the Policy. You may withdraw consent for such collection, use and disclosure, and make an access or correction request in respect of your personal data, in accordance with the Policy by emailing people@aspireapp.com.