IT Project Manager – Finance & Digital Transformation

What you'll do:

• Collaborate closely with Finance, IT and internal stakeholders to understand business objectives,

and define project scope, goals, deliverables, resource requirements and milestone schedules

for finance-related initiatives.

• Lead cross-functional teams, including developers, QA engineers, system administrators and

business analysts, to deliver IT projects on time, within scope and within budget, from kickoff

through go-live and handover to support.

• Establish project governance: project charters, RACI, steering committees, decision logs and

clear escalation paths, so ownership and decisions are never ambiguous.

• Build and maintain integrated project plans, managing the critical path, dependencies and

milestones across several workstreams and teams.

• Implement project management frameworks (Agile, Scrum, Kanban or hybrid approaches) to

streamline workflows, adapting them to fixed finance deadlines such as month-end, quarter-end

and audit dates.

• Identify manual, repetitive Finance processes and deliver AI-driven process automation: define

the business case, success metrics and controls, run pilots, and track adoption and measured

savings.

• Conduct risk assessments, anticipate blockers, and deploy prompt mitigation or escalation

strategies, maintaining risk, issue and dependency logs, including data quality, security, access-

control, AI-use and regulatory risks specific to financial data and multi-country operations.

• Prepare regular status reports, track KPIs, and maintain transparent communication with

leadership, Finance stakeholders, clients and vendors.

• Monitor project expenditure, forecast resource allocation, and manage third-party vendor

relationships, including statements of work, acceptance criteria and escalations.

• Work directly with engineers and architects on integrations between finance and business

systems, data flows, testing, environments and releases, and challenge technical estimates

when needed.

• Run the change request pipeline, release planning, cutover and go-live coordination, and post-

implementation reviews, and capture lessons learned.

• Develop and deliver training materials and workshops so Finance and IT stakeholders can adopt

new solutions and automations.

• Stay informed about industry trends and emerging technologies, including AI, and apply that

knowledge to improve finance operations and delivery practices.

What we are looking for:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, Business

Administration or a related field. A master's degree is a plus.

• Proven experience (5 to 8 years) managing IT projects, including technical or digital

transformation projects delivered end to end as the accountable lead.

• Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects and workstreams

in parallel, plan critical paths and dependencies, and track delivery through KPIs and risk, issue

and dependency logs.

• Experience setting up and running project governance, including charters, RACI, steering

committees, change control and post-implementation reviews.

• Hands-on experience with Agile, Scrum, Kanban and Waterfall, and ability to run hybrid delivery.

PMP strongly preferred; PRINCE2, CSM or PSM valued.

• Experience owning project budgets and forecasts and governing external development or

integration vendors, including statements of work and acceptance criteria.

• Hands-on experience delivering AI-driven process automation, for example with LLM-based

assistants, document and data extraction, RPA or low-code workflow platforms, including

assessing which processes are good automation candidates, defining controls and managing

pilots through to adoption.

• Experience delivering projects for Finance or other regulated, numbers-driven functions, such as

reporting and analytics, treasury or payments integrations, and payables and receivables

tooling, with an understanding of month-end close, controls and audit needs.

• Strong technical knowledge of the SDLC, cloud and infrastructure, APIs and system integrations,

databases and data pipelines, and testing and release management.

• Proficiency in Jira, Confluence and Microsoft Project, and advanced Excel and PowerPoint for

budget tracking and reporting.

• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex

information to Finance, IT and executive stakeholders, plus leadership without direct authority,

negotiation and conflict resolution.

• Fluent English.

Why join Aleph:

• Visible, business-critical impact: your projects shape how Aleph’s Finance function closes the books, pays and gets paid across 130+ markets. You’ll have direct visibility to IT and Finance leadership.
• Real AI automation, not slideware: you will take AI-driven process automation from business case to pilot to measured savings. That builds one of the most in-demand skill sets in finance technology.
• Room to grow: multi-country, multi-entity programmes, e-invoicing and compliance changes give you the breadth to grow toward programme and portfolio leadership.
• A collaborative, inclusive team: you’ll work alongside Finance, engineering and architecture colleagues who value clear ownership, open communication and different perspectives, in a hybrid set-up based in Madrid.
• At the centre of digital advertising: Aleph partners with TikTok, Amazon, Google and nearly 55 other platforms, so the finance technology you deliver supports one of the world’s fastest-moving industries.