PCF roles are your most important hires. Too senior for a job board. Too expensive to hand to Executive Search every time. Sigmentix maps the full market, does the outreach, and delivers matched professionals to your door. You take it from there, in line with your own process.
PCF appointments are not like your other hires. They are fewer in number, higher in stakes, and they tend to be sticky once made. Which makes it even more important to get them right first time, and to do it without derailing the rest of your workload.
PCF appointments are board-level hires. The right Head of Compliance, Chief Risk Officer, or CEO is not just another candidate. They shape how a regulated firm operates, is supervised, and grows. Getting it wrong is expensive. Getting it right matters.
In-house TA teams are typically running too many open roles at once. PCF hiring should not consume your week. The traditional alternatives all ask too much of you.
Each of the traditional approaches has a real cost, either to your budget, your time, or both. Sigmentix was built to replace all three with a single, purpose-built alternative.
The premium option. Retained or contingency, the fee is 25 to 30 percent of base salary, and often higher for niche PCF roles. A PCF-12 Head of Compliance at the Irish market median of €150k means a fee of €37,500 to €45,000 per hire. For a small TA team making even two or three PCF hires a year, those numbers are hard to justify when you are sitting inside the firm.
Cheaper than retained Executive Search but the incentive structure is misaligned. Contingency recruiters are paid only on placement, which means speed over fit. You end up managing multiple agencies pushing different candidates, duplicated outreach to the same professionals, and shortlists shaped by whoever the agency already knows rather than what the full market looks like.
Job board posts reach only people who are actively looking. The majority of the PCF market is passive. Those who do apply are rarely pre-qualified, which means your team spends hours screening CVs from people who are not PCF-approved at all. The right person probably never saw the advert.
Sigmentix is not a recruiter and it is not a job board. It is a purpose-built market access platform that handles everything up to the point where a professional expresses genuine interest. From there, it is entirely yours.
We have already done the work of identifying every PCF-qualified professional in Ireland. You do not need to brief a researcher, build a longlist, or rely on anyone else's database. The market is mapped and ready.
Once your role goes live, Sigmentix contacts matched professionals on your behalf immediately. Passive professionals who would not have seen your advert and would not have responded to a recruiter get a direct, relevant approach.
Every professional who expresses interest is already within your stated budget and matches your spec. No CVs to screen for basic fit. No budget conversations after you have already invested time. Just qualified interest.
Before you go live, see exactly how many professionals match your spec and salary range right now. Adjust your offer or requirements based on what the market actually looks like today, not what it looked like six months ago.
Our process guides you through building a spec aligned to your CBI licence type and PCF role category. No specialist regulatory knowledge required. The platform knows the difference between a PCF-8 requirement at a Payment Institution and one at a Fund Manager.
Sigmentix handles everything up to first contact. Interviews, assessments, offer management, and onboarding stay entirely with your team. No handover, no loss of control, no agency in the middle of your process.
Sigmentix matches professionals to opportunities based entirely on their PCF experience, role category, seniority, and salary alignment. Nothing else enters the matching process. No demographic signals. No indicators of age, gender, background, or anything other than relevant professional qualification and experience.
This means every shortlist you receive reflects the full breadth of qualified candidates in the market, presented on the basis of their ability to do the job. Diverse shortlists are not an outcome we engineer. They are what happens when merit is the only filter.
Here is how the cost of a typical PCF hire in Ireland stacks up across the three main options and Sigmentix.
Figures above are illustrative, based on typical fee structures in the Irish market. Sigmentix pricing is confirmed at onboarding.
Four steps from brief to having a shortlist of interested, qualified, budget-aligned professionals. Your TA process picks up exactly where Sigmentix leaves off.
Select your PCF role type and licence category. Our guided process builds a spec aligned to CBI requirements for your licence type. Takes minutes, not days.
Before you go live, see exactly how many PCF professionals match your spec and salary range today. Adjust your offer or requirements based on what the market actually looks like right now.
Your role goes live and Sigmentix contacts matched professionals on your behalf straight away. The full PCF market, active and passive, receives a direct and relevant approach.
Those who are interested and within your budget make themselves known. You take it from there, in line with your own process. Sigmentix stays out of the way from this point on.
Join the waitlist and be among the first TA teams on the platform. We will be in touch before we go live to walk you through how it works.