Job Description

About Grab and Our Workplace

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.

Get to know our Team:

The Grab Driver Acquisition and Onboarding Department is responsible for onboarding and recruiting new driver and rider-partners in the platform. This team designs, creates and owns the processes to ensure smooth driver/ rider application experience in the driver onboarding journey and ensure that new riders are setup for success. This team is also responsible for attracting and recruiting new drivers to join Grab and MoveIt via leveraging various channels, campaigns, and avenues to reach potential target audience to join the growing rider base of Grab and MoveIt. You will get a chance to work directly with progressive thinkers with various teams -- operations, marketplace, marketing departments, training, safety, and driver communities to help shape the driver's early lifecycle journey.

Get to know the Role:

The Finance Specialist is a critical role to support Driver Acquisition, Onboarding and GPC team in managing procurement processes and budget monitoring. The role needs someone who is highly organized and responsible; has a good working attitude and is willing to go the extra mile. They must also demonstrate good skill with numbers, data, critical thinking, and problem solving. This role involves coordinating with vendors, raising purchase requisitions, processing invoices, and monitoring expenses against budgets.

Location of the Assignment:

Able to work in office (Marikina) 2-3 times weekly

The day-to-day activities:

1. Budget Management and Monitoring: Monitor expenses against the budget, provide regular financial reports in a timely manner,, and suggest cost-saving strategies.Ensure optimized spending of departmental budget allocations.
2. Budget Database Maintenance: Manage and update the budget database to track and enforce reporting requirements in collaboration with the Country Operations team.
3. Procurement Management: Handle all procurement functions, including vendor coordination, raising purchase requisition requests, and processing invoices for payment.
4. Vendor Coordination: Establish and maintain relationships with vendors, negotiate and reviewcontracts and prices, and ensure timely delivery of products or services.
5. Expense Processing and Monitoring: Ensure expenses are properly processed and documented in a timely manner. Track expenses, prepare and submit expense reports, and ensure all expenses align with company policies and budget.
6. Purchase Requests and Orders: Create Purchase Requests and Purchase Orders for Country Operations as per business needs.
7. Invoice Processing: Review and verify invoices, prepare payments for approval, and resolve any invoice discrepancies or issues.
8. Inter-Team Liaison: Coordinate with other teams, vendors, stakeholders for activities impacting the team's budget and spending.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Must have a Bachelor's degree in finance, business, accounting, mathematics, or similar
• Practical experience with spreadsheets (such as MS Excel and Google Sheets)
• Proven experience in procurement, budget monitoring, administrative support, or a similar role.
• Strong organizational and multitasking skills.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
• Knowledge of procurement software and financial systems is a plus.
• Must be knowledgeable about transport, cars and the automotive industry
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Fluent in speaking, writing in both Filipino and English language
• Attention to detail and accuracy. Problem analysis and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent time management skills. Proactive and self-starters, and has a high degree of personal responsibility. Enjoy working as part of a team.
• Handle themselves in a pleasant, personable manner (in-person, phone, and email.)

Additional Information

Life at Grab

We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer our Interns:

• Attractive Monthly Allowance: Receive a competitive monthly allowance to support your internship journey
• Employees and Interns Exclusive App Discount: Enjoy special offers through your Grab and Move It apps.
• Work Essentials Provided: A working laptop and necessary software tools will be provided to ensure you have all the resources you need for success.
• On-the-Job Training: Gain hands-on experience with mentorship and training opportunities from Grab's leaders and senior members
• Professional Exposure: Experience a global and professional working environment, contributing to large-scale products across Southeast Asian countries
• Networking Opportunities: Engage with other talented peers from top-tier universities and participate in the company's various engagement activities
• Career Opportunities: Explore potential full-time employment opportunities within the company, depending on business needs and intern qualifications
• Travel Opportunities within the Philippines: Gain the opportunity to participate in fieldwork, allowing you to gather real-world insights and transform them into practical, actionable projects for the improvement of Grab and Move It.
• Internal Contests and Promotions: Become eligible to participate in Grabber-exclusive contests and promotions
• Company Event Access: Participate in some events that foster collaboration and a sense of community within Grab.
• Balancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours

What We Stand For At Grab

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that enables diverse Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. As an equal opportunity employer, we consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique