A sophisticated fintech organisation in Estonia is seeking a Fintech Vendor Risk Manager to establish and operate a structured third-party risk framework covering technology providers, financial partners, cloud services, and critical operational suppliers.

This role combines risk management, technology understanding, procurement governance, security awareness, and stakeholder management. You will help ensure that third-party relationships are evaluated consistently throughout their lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the fintech third-party risk-management framework.
• Assess new vendors according to financial, operational, technology, security, and continuity risks.
• Coordinate due-diligence assessments for critical technology and financial-service providers.
• Establish risk classifications and appropriate assessment requirements for different vendor categories.
• Review vendor security documentation, resilience capabilities, service commitments, and control environments.
• Work with procurement and legal teams during contract negotiations and renewals.
• Monitor critical suppliers throughout the relationship lifecycle.
• Maintain vendor-risk registers and track remediation of identified issues.
• Establish escalation procedures for material third-party risks.
• Coordinate periodic reassessments of critical vendors.
• Develop management reporting covering vendor exposure, concentration, incidents, and remediation.
• Partner with security, compliance, technology, finance, and operations teams on supplier-risk matters.

Candidate Profile

• 6+ years of experience in third-party risk, operational risk, technology risk, financial services, or fintech.
• Strong understanding of vendor-management and risk-assessment methodologies.
• Familiarity with cloud services, SaaS platforms, financial technology providers, and cybersecurity controls.
• Experience evaluating supplier resilience, business continuity, and operational dependencies.
• Strong analytical and documentation skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail.

Risk Environment

Third-party risk assessments, vendor due diligence, SaaS and cloud providers, financial infrastructure partners, cybersecurity controls, business continuity, contractual risk, supplier concentration, and operational resilience.

Why This Opportunity

As fintech ecosystems become increasingly interconnected, strong third-party governance is essential. This role gives you ownership of a risk discipline that directly supports technology resilience and operational continuity.

Ideal Candidate: A structured risk professional who can understand complex technology dependencies and turn them into clear, measurable, and manageable third-party risk controls.

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