Senior IT Project Manager; Financial Services HQ

Position: Senior IT Project Manager (Financial Services HQ
# Senior IT Project Manager (Financial Services) – Istanbul HQ - Beakwise Careers## Senior IT Project Manager (Financial Services) – Istanbul HQIstanbul Headquarters Full-time6-10 Years of Experience## About This Role We're hiring a Senior IT Project Manager to run technology programme delivery across multiple countries and a growing team. This is a hands-on role that covers everything from client-facing programme governance to the day-to-day realities of managing people: tracking progress, handling leave requests, running performance reviews, and making sure your team has what they need to do good work.

Based at our Istanbul HQ. Hybrid: two days at the office, three days remote. Significant international travel required.
** About Beakwise
** Beakwise builds a digitalization suite for enterprises, with components specialized for various domains, use cases, and industries. We operate across Turkey, the EU, North Africa, and Central Asia. Our Istanbul HQ is where strategy and product decisions happen. Our Tashkent hub is where a founding engineering team is building the next generation of the platform.

We're growing and hiring across multiple countries. We need someone who can hold delivery and people management together without pretending either part is easy.##

Required Qualifications
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* Experience:

** You've spent 5-10 years managing IT projects or programmes, and a meaningful chunk of that was inside financial services: banking, insurance, payments, or fintech. You know what it's like to deliver software where regulators are watching, where downtime costs real money, and where "good enough" isn't.You've run at least two or three programmes that you'd describe as complex. Not just big, complex.

Multiple teams, multiple countries, conflicting priorities, hard deadlines. You've shipped them. You can tell us what went wrong along the way and what you did about it.
** People management:
** You've managed people before, not just projects. You've handled performance reviews, set individual goals, had difficult feedback conversations, and dealt with leave planning across a team. You understand that good people management is mostly unglamorous admin done consistently well.
** Technical understanding:
** You're not an engineer, and we won't ask you to write code. But you need to hold your own in a technical conversation. If someone says "we need to refactor the payment reconciliation service before we can add the new endpoint," you should understand roughly what that means and why it might take longer than the client expects.

Familiarity with modern development practices helps:
Agile, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure (AWS or Azure), API-driven architectures. You don't need to configure a Kubernetes cluster, but you shouldn't look blank when someone mentions one.

You've used project tools like JIRA, Confluence, or Azure Dev Ops. You probably have opinions about which one is least annoying.
** Communication:
** Professional English, written and spoken, is a hard requirement. You'll write proposals, run client calls in English, and send executive summaries to people who care about every word. This isn't "conversational English." This is "draft a change-request justification that a London-based compliance officer will approve" English.

Beyond English, we'd love it if you speak another language we work in. German, French, Spanish, or Dutch would open doors with EU clients. Russian would help with our Central Asian operations. Arabic would strengthen our North Africa presence. None of these are required, but any one of them is a genuine advantage.
** Travel and logistics:
** Valid passport. Willingness to travel internationally 30-40% of the time, sometimes on short notice. If you've worked across time zones before, you already know the drill. If you haven't, just know that it's tiring and rewarding in roughly equal measure.
** Certifications** (nice to have, not required):

PMP, PRINCE2, or SAFe certification. We care more about what you've actually delivered than what's on a certificate, but if you have one, great.

Experience with regulatory programmes (KYC, AML, PSD2, GDPR) is a strong plus. So is a background in fintech…