Senior MLRO & Compliance Director – Payments

Global Payments; Sydney; On-site; AUD 190,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Payments is seeking a Director, Compliance & Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) to lead the compliance and financial crime framework across Australia and New Zealand. As the designated MLRO, you will provide strategic direction, oversight, and trusted advice to senior leaders and Boards while protecting the organisation and customers.

You will establish and maintain the compliance management framework, oversee AML/CTF, sanctions, and financial crime risk, and report on regulatory

Qualifications

• Experience leading compliance, AML/CTF and financial crime programs in payments or financial services.
• Strong knowledge of Australian regulatory requirements including AFSL, AML/CTF, sanctions.
• Ability to design and enhance compliance frameworks with risk-based controls.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Compliance function across Australia and New Zealand, providing strategic direction, independent oversight, and challenge across regulatory compliance, AML/CTF, sanctions and financial crime risk.
• Establish and maintain the organisation’s compliance management framework, including policies, standards, procedures, strategic priorities, operational objectives, and work plans.
• Act as the designated Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) and lead the Australian AML/CTF and financial crime compliance program, ensuring applicable regulatory and legislative obligations are met.
• Oversee financial crime risk management, including risk assessments, customer due diligence, transaction monitoring, suspicious matter reporting, sanctions controls, remediation activities, and ongoing assurance.
• Monitor regulatory developments across Australia and New Zealand and lead the implementation of regulatory change, ensuring requirements are embedded into products, services, processes, controls, and strategic initiatives.
• Provide expert compliance guidance to business stakeholders and oversee compliance risk assessments, monitoring, assurance activities, and control effectiveness reviews, driving remediation and continuous improvement where required.
• Act as a primary contact for regulators and government agencies, including AUSTRAC, leading regulatory engagements, examinations, audits, information requests, reviews, and remediation activities.
• Partner with Legal, Risk, Product, Operations, Commercial, and Technology teams to identify, assess, manage, and mitigate compliance and financial crime risks.
• Provide regular reporting, assurance, and strategic advice to senior leadership, Board committees, and Australian Boards on key compliance risks, regulatory developments, financial crime matters, control effectiveness, and remediation activities.
• Lead, develop, and mentor the Compliance team while fostering a culture of ethics, compliance, and financial crime awareness, including training and continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills

AML/CTF expertise

Financial crime risk

Regulatory engagement

Leadership

Communication

Stakeholder influence

Education

Tertiary qualification in Law/Business/Finance/Commerce/Risk Management

Job description

Global Payments is seeking a Director, Compliance & Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) to lead the compliance and financial crime framework across Australia and New Zealand. As the designated MLRO, you will provide strategic direction, oversight, and trusted advice to senior leaders and Boards while protecting the organisation and customers.

You will establish and maintain the compliance management framework, oversee AML/CTF, sanctions, and financial crime risk, and report on regulatory