Aml Specialist

**About us**

Sportsbet's purpose is to bring excitement to life for its customers and we do this by over-delivering on excitement through serious fun, disrupting the status quo and living our values. We’re a flexible, progressive, open-minded, and inclusive employer with over 7,000 cool, clever and curious people around the world. As part of the Flutter Group, we’re a global player, but in Melbourne, Sydney and Darwin we’re tight knit, with 1,000 of us bringing excitement to life every day.

Our commitment to responsible gambling is genuine and demonstrated through the wide range of responsible gambling initiatives and tools

**About the role**

The AML specialist role is accountable for operationalising Sportsbet’s AML/CTF capabilities to support the organisation’s materially larger customer base and future growth ambitions.

As a key member of a high performing function, the AML specialist role will work across a number of shift patterns spanning both weekday and weekends to execute processes and systems to ensure we understand, manage and respond to customer and third party activity that may be suspicious and/or fraudulent.

Furthermore, the AML specialist role will collect, prepare and present on a range of intelligence data sources and metrics relating to customer activity and behaviour for operational and strategic decision making.

Responsibilities include:

- Obtain and review documentation and reference data to verify customer’s KYC information
- Perform KYC and customer due diligence investigations and undertake verification checks
- Liaise with customers to seek additional information and keep them updated on progress of verification
- Complete screening for sanctions, politically exposed persons and restricted territories
- Manage and respond to alerts generated by AML transaction monitoring systems
- Identify, investigate and escalate suspicious activity
- Prepare suspicious matter report submissions for the review and approval to AUSTRAC
- Prepare and develop AML/CTF materials for Sportsbet’s Escalation Committee
- Prepare AML/CTF commentary into a variety of operational and strategic reports for Sportsbet’s Leadership Teams and Flutter Global Functions
- Lead the implementation of risk reduction strategies for relevant AML/CTF related strategic and operational risks (Enterprise Risks) and proactively socialise the progress of implementation to key stakeholders
- Driving continuous awareness and education of the importance of strong and defendable AML/CTF and Fraud management practices across Sportsbet
- Aligning critical customer facing and enabling stakeholders (e.g. Legal, Risk & Compliance) on positions and decisions with respect to customer activity and behaviour
- Ensure customer facing teams are suitably equipped to cope with the growing complexity of Risk across the organization’s operations

**About You**
- Substantial operational experience in AML/CTF including KYC, OCDD, ECDD and SMR preparation
- Preparation, execution and response to internal and Regulator (e.g. AUSTRAC) audits
- A demonstrable track record working in high profiled and heavily regulated industries (e.g. financial services)

**The Perks**

We work hard and play hard, so along with a very competitive salary and generous performance-based bonus, we will also provide you with:

- 25 days annual leave (a whole extra week of holidays)
- Genuine flexible working and remote working policy with an $850 work from home office allowance
- Discounted gym memberships, free breakfast and loads of event and conference tickets and many more
- Best in class Parental Leave program with six months paid leave for Primary Carers and Circle In membership
- Free merch
- Tailored career development programs, as well as a commitment to developing Thought Leader and Specialist Talent programs

We’re a flexible, progressive, open-minded, and inclusive employer who welcomes you for who you are, as you are