About Us
At Sportsbet, we’re all about bringing excitement to life for our 2 million customers. As part of the global Flutter Group, we’re a tight-knit team of 1,300 in Melbourne, Sydney, and Darwin, passionate about challenging the status quo. We’re proud to be recognized as one of LinkedIn’s Top 25 Companies and one of the Top 10 Workplaces for Women.
We’re an inclusive employer who celebrates diversity and is committed to helping you thrive. Whether you’re looking for flexibility, career growth, or a supportive environment, we’re here to help you succeed.
Committed To Responsible Gambling
Our commitment to responsible gambling is genuine and demonstrated through the wide range of responsible gambling initiatives and tools.
We’re proud to be the leaders in responsible gambling in our industry, not just locally, but globally.
About the Role
The Senior Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Specialist is accountable for operationalising Sportsbet’s AML/CTF capabilities to support the organisation’s materially larger customer base and future growth ambitions.
The Senior AML Specialist is responsible for leading complex investigations into potential money laundering, terrorist financing, and other financial crimes. This role involves reviewing alerts, conducting Enhanced Customer Due Diligence (ECDD), preparing Suspicious Matter Reports (SMRs), and ensuring compliance with applicable AML regulations and internal procedures
Responsibilities Include:
- Conduct quality checks on Enhanced Customer Due Diligence (ECDD) reviews completed by analysts to ensure consistency, accuracy, and alignment with regulatory obligations and internal standards
- High Risk Customer Management, ensuring timely reviews, ongoing monitoring, appropriate risk-based decisions and escalations
- Prepare and submit Suspicious Matter Reports in accordance with regulatory requirements and internal standards
- Participate in system testing for new AML tools, upgrades, or rule changes
- Act as a subject matter expert for ECDD and high-risk case escalations, coaching team members and reviewing complex cases
- 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
About You:
- You have a customer first attitude and constantly strive to improve customers’ experience
- You can connect operational and strategic outcomes through systems thinking
- You question the status quo and look at things in new ways to drive innovation
- You value and encourage other’s expertise, efforts and ideas and provide support when things don’t always go as planned
- You challenge yourself to do things differently & go the extra mile to overdeliver on excitement
- You are passionate about learning and adapting to continually improve.
- Communicates effectively (written and verbally) and relates well to a wide range of people including both business and technical specialists
- Operational experience (at least 5 years) in AML/CTF including KYC, OCDD, ECDD and SMR preparation
- A demonstrable track record working in high-profile and heavily regulated industries (e.g. financial services)
- Proven expertise in handling high-risk customers and conducting ECDD
Why You’ll Love Working Here
Along with a competitive salary and generous performance-based bonus, here’s some of our other benefits:
- 25 days annual leave
- Genuine flexible working policy
- $1050 work-from-home allowance to set up your home office
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program and a Circle In membership
- Access to outstanding career development programs, including expert-led internal training and external learning opportunities
- Weekly concierge service including free massages, facials and nail appointments – all onsite!
- Free coffee, daily fresh fruit, breakfast provisions and Kombucha on tap in the office
- Weekly rotating socials, from Thursday drinks to coffee carts and fun team events
- End of trip facilities with onsite table tennis and pool tables
- Generous parental leave and return-to-work benefits
- Hack Days: Participate in our hack days, where creativity and collaboration lead to exciting new ideas and projects.
What’s the Green Tick Feeling?
Well, it’s different for everyone, yet unites us all. It’s the feeling you get when you succeed, no matter what success looks like to you. It could be developing your career, it could be working on an industry leading project, or it could be making it to school pick up in time. It's all the little and big things that make you feel like you’re thriving when working at Sportsbet.
We’re an inclusive employer who welcomes you for who you are, as you are – so, if you require adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know in your application. We also know flex means different things to different people, so let us know how we can support you to be your best.
We review applications quickly, so apply soon! Check out our Life@Sportsbet Instagram, LinkedIn, and careers website for more about our inclusive culture.
Ready for your Green Tick Feeling? Apply now.
