People Operations Manager (Regional)

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.

At Funding Societies, our HR team is known as the People Experience (Px) team, reflecting our commitment to putting people at the heart of everything we do.

We are looking for a highly driven and detail oriented Regional People Operations Manager to lead and oversee People Operations across the region (including but not limited to Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and India). In this role, you will ensure operational excellence across all core people processes, drive compliance, and implement scalable systems and workflows to support our regional workforce.

You'll bring strong operational acumen, a process improvement mindset, and the ability to collaborate effectively with diverse teams across multiple markets.

What you will do:

Operations

• Drive and uplift operational excellence across all People (Px) teams in the region
• Develop and implement efficient HR processes to enhance operational effectiveness regionally
• Establish automated SLAs and monitoring dashboards for all automated flows with alerts for failures/errors
• Ensure error free employment letters and contract accuracy on first draft (compensation, benefits, clauses) across all markets with up to date legally signed off templates
• Represent the company during audit and regulatory checks in the region and achieve zero red flag audit findings in compliance reviews across all markets
• Maintain accurate employee data in HRIS and ensure timely reporting and analytics
• Improve data hygiene across employee records, performance feedback, and employee related discussions
• Oversee payroll and salary disbursement operations across Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, and India. 
• Ensure People (Px) practices comply with local labor laws and regulations in all markets
• Work closely with vendors to ensure accurate and timely processing of payroll, taxation, and benefit administration across all markets
• Ensure work permit applications, immigration matters, and related processes are handled in a timely manner across all markets
• Work closely with the People (Px) team to support and execute related initiatives regionally

Project Management

• People (Px) Initiatives: Lead or support projects related to process improvement, automation, employee engagement and strategic initiatives across the region
• Change Management: Manage aspects of organizational changes, including communication, training, and transition support across multiple markets
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with cross functional teams to ensure successful project outcomes and alignment with business objectives
• Fulfill any other tasks as reasonably instructed to assist in the business's growth and progress

Who You Really Are

Your thinking matters more than your title or tenure. That said, a few things are non negotiable:

• Execution is your default mode. You get energy from making things work. You earn the right to shape strategy by delivering first.
• You clarify before you build. Every process gets the same treatment: what is this solving, and is it still worth solving? You adapt to context rather than reaching for a playbook.
• You are comfortable with hard conversations. You have guided teams through change and do not avoid the moments that require directness.
• You have built something real in a fast moving environment, whether at a startup, a scaling tech company, or equivalent across SEA.
• You are hands on with AI, not just aware of it. You want to be personally capable, not just directionally supportive.
• Impact is personal for you. Shaping how people are hired, developed, and supported across a multi country organisation genuinely drives you.

We are open to candidates outside the traditional Px or HR path, provided you have the operational depth and the hunger to build something that lasts.

What we are looking for:

• Proven experience in People Operations with strong knowledge of employment law across SEA markets 
• Experience working in a sizeable and fast paced environment with a multi cultural, multi country workforce
• Demonstrated experience managing employee lifecycle, payroll administration, and/or HRIS at a regional level
• Thorough and up to date working knowledge of local labour laws and taxation across relevant markets
• Highly analytical, possessing excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong organizational skills, proactive, and the ability to prioritize and complete work in a timely and accurate manner independently
• Demonstrated critical thinking skills and ability to assess issues from multiple angles to problem-solve effectively
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and Google Workspace (Gmail, Google Sheets, Google Drive etc.)

• Time off - We would love you to take time off to rest and rejuvenate. We offer flexible paid vacations as well as many other observed holidays by country. We also like to have our people take a day off for special days like birthdays and work anniversaries.
• Flexible working - We believe in giving back the control of work & life to our people. We trust our people and love to provide the space to accommodate each and everyone's working style and personal life.
• Medical benefits - We offer health insurance coverage for our employees and dependents. Our people focus on our mission knowing we have their backs for their loved ones too.
• Mental health and wellness - We understand that our team productivity is directly linked to our mental and physical health. Hence we have Wellness Wednesdays and we engage partners to provide well-being coaching.
• Tech support - We provide a company laptop for our employees and the best possible support for the right equipment/tools to enable high productivity

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