IT Project Manager – Finance & Digital Transformation

Are you ready to join our digital revolution journey?

At Aleph, we’re not just part of the digital advertising landscape—we’re shaping its future. Representing the world’s leading platforms, including TikTok, Amazon, Google, and nearly 55 others, we operate in 130+ markets across new and existing geographies.

Our mission is to empower advertisers and brands to unlock the full potential of these platforms' advertising capabilities. By fostering long-lasting partnerships, we create limitless opportunities for people and businesses to advertise effectively at both local and global levels.

With a presence spanning continents, Aleph offers you the chance to be part of a fast-growing, innovative team where your work makes a direct impact. If you’re ambitious, forward-thinking, and eager to thrive in a dynamic, global environment, Aleph is the perfect place to build your career.

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 schedulesfor finance-related initiatives.• Lead cross-functional teams, including developers, QA engineers, system administrators andbusiness analysts, to deliver IT projects on time, within scope and within budget, from kickoffthrough go-live and handover to support.• Establish project governance: project charters, RACI, steering committees, decision logs andclear escalation paths, so ownership and decisions are never ambiguous.• Build and maintain integrated project plans, managing the critical path, dependencies andmilestones across several workstreams and teams.• Implement project management frameworks (Agile, Scrum, Kanban or hybrid approaches) tostreamline workflows, adapting them to fixed finance deadlines such as month-end, quarter-endand audit dates.• Identify manual, repetitive Finance processes and deliver AI-driven process automation: definethe business case, success metrics and controls, run pilots, and track adoption and measuredsavings.• Conduct risk assessments, anticipate blockers, and deploy prompt mitigation or escalationstrategies, 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 withleadership, Finance stakeholders, clients and vendors.• Monitor project expenditure, forecast resource allocation, and manage third-party vendorrelationships, including statements of work, acceptance criteria and escalations.• Work directly with engineers and architects on integrations between finance and businesssystems, data flows, testing, environments and releases, and challenge technical estimateswhen 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 adoptnew solutions and automations.• Stay informed about industry trends and emerging technologies, including AI, and apply thatknowledge to improve finance operations and delivery practices.

What we are looking for:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, BusinessAdministration or a related field. A master's degree is a plus.• Proven experience (5 to 8 years) managing IT projects, including technical or digitaltransformation projects delivered end to end as the accountable lead.• Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects and workstreamsin parallel, plan critical paths and dependencies, and track delivery through KPIs and risk, issueand dependency logs.• Experience setting up and running project governance, including charters, RACI, steeringcommittees, 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 orintegration vendors, including statements of work and acceptance criteria.• Hands-on experience delivering AI-driven process automation, for example with LLM-basedassistants, document and data extraction, RPA or low-code workflow platforms, includingassessing which processes are good automation candidates, defining controls and managingpilots through to adoption.• Experience delivering projects for Finance or other regulated, numbers-driven functions, such asreporting and analytics, treasury or payments integrations, and payables and receivablestooling, 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 forbudget tracking and reporting.• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complexinformation 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.