Build a Stronger Ecosystem of Financial Technology Partners

We are looking for a Head of Fintech Vendor & Third-Party Risk to establish and lead the framework for managing technology providers, financial institutions, payment partners, cloud platforms, and other critical third parties.

As fintech businesses increasingly depend on interconnected technology ecosystems, effective third-party risk management is essential to protecting operational resilience, customer data, financial processes, and regulatory obligations.

Your Mission

You will develop a comprehensive third-party risk programme covering due diligence, onboarding, ongoing monitoring, contractual controls, operational resilience, security, and exit planning.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and own the organisation’s third-party risk-management framework.
• Develop risk classifications for technology and financial-service providers.
• Lead due-diligence assessments for critical vendors and strategic partners.
• Assess third-party cybersecurity, data protection, financial stability, operational resilience, and regulatory risks.
• Define minimum control requirements for high-risk vendors.
• Establish ongoing monitoring and periodic reassessment programmes.
• Work with procurement and legal teams on contractual risk requirements.
• Partner with information security teams to evaluate technology and cybersecurity controls.
• Assess concentration risk and dependencies across critical financial and technology providers.
• Develop contingency and exit strategies for critical third-party relationships.
• Maintain executive reporting on material vendor risks and remediation activity.
• Coordinate remediation plans where vendors fail to meet required standards.
• Support internal audits, regulatory examinations, and operational-resilience programmes.
• Develop policies, procedures, risk registers, and governance mechanisms for third-party relationships.

What We’re Looking For

• 8+ years of experience in third-party risk, operational risk, cybersecurity risk, financial services, fintech, procurement risk, or a related discipline.
• Strong understanding of vendor-risk management and control frameworks.
• Experience assessing technology providers and financial-service partners.
• Strong knowledge of cybersecurity, data protection, business continuity, and operational resilience.
• Experience within banking, payments, fintech, or another regulated environment.
• Strong understanding of frameworks such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST, or comparable standards.
• Excellent negotiation, documentation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to communicate complex risk issues clearly to executive leadership.

Why This Role Matters

A fintech platform is only as resilient as the critical services it depends on. In this role, you will help ensure that external partnerships strengthen rather than weaken the organisation’s security, reliability, and regulatory position.

You will have broad visibility across the fintech ecosystem and the opportunity to build a mature third-party risk function supporting sustainable international growth from Estonia.

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