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Company Overview

Cantor Fitzgerald Ireland Limited is part of leading global financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald. Cantor Fitzgerald has offices and trading desks in all major financial service centres throughout the world. We specialise in equities, Investment Banking, Real Estate, Fixed Income and Currencies. Cantor Fitzgerald’s affiliate businesses include: BGC Partners, Inc. (BGC), Newmark Knight Frank (KNF), and GFI Group (GFI). Cantor Fitzgerald Ireland provides a full suite of investment services, primarily wealth management, fund management, debt capital markets and corporate finance. An exciting opportunity has arisen for an AML Refresh Project Executive.

Role Summary

Cantor Fitzgerald Ireland (CFIL) is seeking an experienced and technically capable Senior Manager to evolve its Critical Supplier & Outsourcing framework. Regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland, CFIL provides retail and institutional clients with a broad range of investment, wealth management, and financial services. This is a high-visibility, programme-leadership role operating at the intersection of third-party risk, operational resilience, and regulatory compliance.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and continuously develop CFIL’s end-to-end critical supplier and outsourcing framework, aligned to CBI expectations, DORA, and EBA/ESMA outsourcing guidelines.

 

• Maintain and enhance CFIL’s Register of Outsourced Functions and Critical/ImportantFunctions (CIFs), ensuring completeness, accuracy, and audit-readiness at all times.

 

• Serve as the subject matter expert on the CBI’s Cross Industry Guidance on Outsourcing, the Guidelines on Operational Resilience, and the DORA Regulation.

 

• Ensure CFIL’s outsourcing arrangements remain compliant with applicable Irish and EUregulatory requirements, including notification obligations, intra-group outsourcing rules, and ICT third-party risk requirements under DORA.

 

• Lead the design and execution of risk-based due diligence for critical / important suppliers and outsourced service providers, incorporating financial health, operational resilience, cyber and information security posture, and concentration risk.

 

• Develop and maintain a risk-tiering methodology to ensure proportionate oversight across the full supplier population.

 

• Prepare high-quality management information and Board/Committee reporting on outsourcing risk, supplier performance, regulatory compliance status, and emerging risks.

 

• Contribute to the Outsourcing Governance Forum or equivalent risk committee, providing expert input and challenge.

 

 

Skills and Experience

• Minimum 8–10 years’ experience in an outsourcing governance, third-party risk, operational risk, or related function within financial services.

 

• Demonstrable hands-on experience of designing, managing, or materially enhancing a critical supplier / outsourcing framework within a regulated financial services
environment.

 

• Strong, working knowledge of the CBI’s Cross Industry Guidance on Outsourcing and CFIL’s notification and documentation obligations under that framework.

 

• Solid understanding of the DORA, including ICT third-party risk management requirements, the Register of Information, and Critical ICT Third-Party Provider (CTPP)
rules.

 

• Familiarity with the CBI’s Guidance on Operational Resilience and its integration with third-party risk obligations.

 

• Experience managing or overseeing ICT and cloud service provider arrangements within a regulated context.

 

• Proven ability to prepare regulatory-quality documentation, governance papers, and Board-level reporting.

 

• A track record of engaging effectively with senior stakeholders and driving programmedelivery without direct line authority.

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Job Specification

Senior Manager – Critical Supplier & Outsourcing

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