Performance Management & Rewards Intern

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.
  

As a Performance Management & Rewards Intern, you will support regional people initiatives by helping the team run performance and rewards processes, generate insights from data, and improve operational efficiency through analytics and automation. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to meaningful projects that support decision-making across the business while working closely with stakeholders on high-impact people programs.

• Performance Cycle Operations: Support end-to-end operations of the year-end performance cycle across our regional markets (SG, MY, ID, TH, VN, IN). This includes coordination, data preparation and validation, calibration session preparation, and project management.
• AI & Automation: Use AI tools to automate recurring processes and build reusable AI-assisted workflows, trackers and templates that make our performance and rewards operations faster and more reliable.
• Rewards Analysis & Projects: Clean, validate and analyze data in Excel or Google Sheets to support high-impact regional rewards projects, such as long-term incentive pool projections, bonus payout modeling, and organization-wide benefits analysis.
• Market & Practice Research: Conduct research on market practices in performance, compensation and benefits, including salary benchmarking, peer policy comparisons and statutory requirements, and translate findings into actionable recommendations.
• Long-Term Incentive Administration: Support ESOP operations, including grant calculation, issuance tracking, leaver records, and data reconciliation across trackers.
• HRIS & Data Maintenance: Keep employee data in the HRIS accurate and up to date (e.g., career levels, team structures), and help build processes to maintain data quality over time.

• Language: Proficiency in English as the working language.
• Skills:
• Excel & Google Workspace: Strong proficiency in Excel (e.g., pivot tables, lookups, formulas) and Google Workspace (Docs, Sheets, Slides).
• Data Analysis: Solid analytical skills and good data sense, with the ability to interpret data and present it as a clear, actionable story in slides.
• AI & Workflow Automation: Hands-on experience working with AI assistants and agents (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini) for research, analysis, drafting and multi-step tasks. You can turn repeatable processes into reusable AI workflows or automations, such as custom AI skills or agents, Google Apps Script, or no-code tools. Examples of workflows you’ve built are a strong plus.
• Organization & Attention to Detail: Highly detail-oriented and organized, able to manage multiple workstreams and deadlines at once.
• Research & Problem-Solving: Strong research and structured problem-solving skills, able to break down ambiguous questions logically and find relevant information efficiently.
• Written Communication: Clear written communication for stakeholder messages, trackers and process documentation.
• Integrity & Discretion: High integrity and discretion in handling confidential compensation and employee data.
• Educational Background: Currently pursuing or recently completed a Bachelor’s or Master’s in Business Analytics, Data Science, HR, Psychology, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or a related field.
• Experience (Preferred): Prior internship or work experience in performance management & rewards, HR analytics, or consulting is a strong plus.

• 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.
• Mental health and wellness - We understand that our team productivity is directly linked to our mental and physical health. Hence we organize org-wide fitness initiatives and 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.