Senior Programme Manager - Global Licensing

Sokin; London Borough of Islington; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Sokin is seeking a Senior Programme Manager to own, govern and accelerate multi-market licensing from approval to go-live. You will lead cross-functional teams across Compliance, Banking/Treasury, Product, Operations and Go-to-Market to ensure timely delivery.

The role requires strong programme management, clear stakeholder communication, and the ability to navigate across time zones in a fast-growing global fintech environment. Flexibility to align with global schedules is essential.

Qualifications

• Extensive programme management experience delivering complex, multi-stakeholder programmes end-to-end.
• Strong communication skills to influence and hold teams accountable across functions.
• Proven risk management discipline with early identification of resourcing gaps and deadlines.
• Comfort operating with ambiguity and incomplete information in fast-moving environments.
• Organised and methodical with ability to coordinate multiple programmes across time zones.
• Excellent facilitation skills for senior stakeholder meetings and working groups.
• Willingness to work across time zones and outside standard hours when needed.
• Experience in payments or fintech, ideally with multi-market licensing.
• Ability to adapt quickly as a fast-paced, scaling business evolves.

Responsibilities

• Own licences from confirmation to go-live, setting up working groups per market.
• Coordinate local Compliance, Banking/Treasury, Product, Operations and Go-to-Market teams.
• Track dependencies, risks and escalate where a market may miss its go-live window.
• Provide regular visibility to stakeholders and senior leadership on licence status.
• Take direct ownership to unblock a market when progress stalls.
• Lead markets already underway and bring structure and pace to efforts.

Skills

Programme management

Stakeholder engagement

Risk management

Ambiguity handling

Planning and scheduling

Facilitation

Cross-timezone coordination

Payments/fintech experience

Multi-market licensing

Tools

Project coordination tools

Job description

We are looking for an ambitious, experienced Senior Programme Manager to join our team. At Sokin, as our pipeline of regulatory licences across new markets continues to grow, we are strengthening how we take each one from approval through to go-live, at pace and with precision.

Global Licensing at Sokin is all about making sure that once a licence is approved, every team that needs to be involved, including Compliance, Product, Treasury, Operations and Go-to-Market, is aligned, accountable, and working to the same plan.

This is an opportunity for someone who wants to bring order to a fast-moving, high-stakes pipeline, working directly with senior stakeholders across the business to make sure new markets land inside their regulatory window.

About Us

Sokin is a next-generation B2B financial services provider, enabling businesses to make and receive global payments with greater speed, lower cost, and total transparency.

Our mission is simple: we are simplifying global business - so businesses thrive wherever they choose to grow. We deliver services across:

• Global payments and receivables
• Foreign Exchange (FX)
• Treasury management
• Finance reconciliations

We are rapidly expanding, with established presence in EMEA, APAC, and North America, backed by a strong global infrastructure and industry-leading partners, we are redefining how businesses move money worldwide.

Our clients span industries from sports and entertainment to logistics and travel, and our community is growing rapidly. As we continue to expand, we are building a team of exceptional people who share our ambition to transform the future of global payments.

The Role

In this role, you will take ownership of each licence from the point it is confirmed through to go-live, standing up a working group for every market that brings together local Compliance, Banking/Treasury, Product, Operations and Go-to-Market, so the right people are engaged at the right stage.

Reporting to the Head of Delivery Management, and partnering closely with other teams across the business, you will track dependencies and risk across every licence in flight, escalating early wherever a market is at risk of missing its go-live window or a team is under-resourced to meet a deadline.

You will provide clear, regular visibility to stakeholders and senior leadership on the status of every licence in progress, and where required, take direct ownership of unblocking a specific market yourself. You will start by picking up markets that are already underway, bringing structure and pace to work that currently has no single owner.

This role suits someone who takes genuine ownership rather than waiting to be asked, builds buy-in across teams they don’t manage, and has the confidence to push back when something isn’t right and get people moving when progress stalls. Confidence, ambition and passion for getting things done matter just as much as process rigour.

This is a genuinely global role. You'll be working with teams and stakeholders across multiple time zones, and will need the flexibility to join calls outside standard hours when a market elsewhere in the world needs you. Sokin is a fast-paced, scaling business, and priorities will shift as the needs of the business change, so the ability to reprioritise quickly is essential.

Requirements

• You have strong programme management experience, with a proven ability to run complex, multi-stakeholder programmes end-to-end.
• You are an excellent communicator, able to engage, influence and hold people accountable across teams you don’t directly manage.
• You have a strong risk management discipline, able to identify and clearly escalation resourcing gaps and at-risk deadlines before they become critical.
• You are comfortable operating with ambiguity and incomplete information; licence sign-off timing is inherently unpredictable.
• You are organised and methodical, able to coordinate multiple concurrent programmes without losing track of detail.
• You are an excellent facilitator, confident running working groups and senior stakeholder meetings.
• You are flexible and comfortable working across time zones, including joining calls outside standard hours when a market elsewhere in the world needs you.
• You can adapt quickly and reprioritise as the needs of a fast-paced, scaling business evolve.
• You have excellent organisational skills, able to manage multiple high-stakes programmes concurrently across different time zones.
• Experience in payments or fintech, particularly at a company that has run multi-market licensing.

Please note, candidates will need to have the right to work in the jurisdiction that they are looking to work in.

Sokin is an equal opportunities employer and committed to maintaining an inclusive work environment. As a growing global startup with bases across multiple countries, we were established on and continue to promote an agile, flexible working culture. Please reach out to discuss any accommodations you may require during the recruitment process.