Director, Compliance Audit – iLottery & Interactive

GamblingCareers.com; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

GamblingCareers.com is seeking a Director of Compliance Audit for its iLottery business. You will lead the global compliance audit strategy, managing various audits and ensuring regulatory adherence across multiple jurisdictions. This role requires extensive experience in audit and compliance, particularly in technology and gaming sectors.

The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience, strong management skills, and relevant professional certifications. The position presents an exciting opportunity to impact compliance standards in a cutting-edge industry.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in audit, compliance, risk management in regulated industries.
• Experience in iLottery, gaming, financial services, or technology.
• Strong analytical and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead global compliance audit strategy for iLottery.
• Manage risk-based audit plans and external audits.
• Serve as audit liaison for customers and regulators.

Skills

Audit methodologies

Risk management

Regulatory compliance

Problem-solving

Collaboration

Education

Professional certifications like CIA, CISA

Job description

Join Aristocrat's ambitious team as the Director, Compliance Audit – iLottery & Interactive! This role is an outstanding opportunity to lead and coordinate our compliance audit program across our global iLottery portfolio and broader interactive business. You will collaborate with diverse teams to maintain audit readiness, regulatory adherence, and robust control frameworks, making a significant impact in a highly regulated environment. This position offers the chance to work with groundbreaking technologies and methodologies, ensuring world-class audit processes and controls.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the global compliance audit strategy for the iLottery business, covering platforms, operations, customer implementations, and supporting services.
• Develop and complete a risk-based audit plan addressing regulatory, operational, security, technology, and service delivery controls.
• Coordinate and lead all aspects of external audits and certifications supporting lottery customers, including SOC 1, SOC 2, ISO 27001, WLA‑SCS, PCI‑DSS and jurisdiction‑specific requirements.
• Maintain audit readiness throughout all iLottery regions by conducting proactive control evaluations, identifying gaps, monitoring remediation progress, and providing ongoing oversight.
• Partner with customer‑facing teams to support regulatory reviews, customer audits, RFP/RFQ responses, and compliance due diligence activities.
• Promote uniformity and harmonisation of audit procedures and control frameworks across several jurisdictions and operational models.
• Serve as a subject‑matter expert on global iLottery regulatory requirements and industry compliance standards.
• Track new regulatory requirements and industry developments, ensuring audit frameworks adapt in advance to meet shifting obligations.
• Partner with Compliance, Legal, Cybersecurity, Privacy and Risk teams to assess regulatory exposure and strengthen mitigation strategies.
• Evaluate the efficiency of controls supporting responsible gaming, information security, data protection, financial reporting, vendor management and operational resilience.
• Serve as the primary audit liaison for customers, regulators, certification bodies and external auditors.
• Provide regular reporting and strategic recommendations to senior leadership regarding audit outcomes, compliance posture, risk exposure and remediation progress.

What We’re Looking For

• 10+ years of progressive experience in audit, compliance, risk management or governance roles within highly regulated industries.
• Significant experience supporting iLottery, gaming, financial services, technology or digital platform environments.
• Demonstrated success in managing intricate audit programmes spanning multiple jurisdictions and regulatory frameworks.
• Experience managing external audits, certifications and regulatory examinations.
• Demonstrated success working with executive leadership and customer collaborators.
• Strong understanding of audit methodologies, internal controls, risk management and governance frameworks.
• Experience with recognised industry benchmarks and certifications such as SOC 1, SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI‑DSS, WLA‑SCS, NIST, COBIT or comparable frameworks.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving and decision‑making capabilities.
• Excellent communication, presentation and collaborator management skills.
• Ability to balance regulatory obligations with operational and business objectives.
• Professional certifications like CIA, CISA, CRISC, CISSP, CGEIT or their equivalents.

Additional Information

This role is subject to mandatory background screening and regulatory approvals. As part of your employment with Aristocrat, you may be required to complete a criminal background check, submit fingerprints and obtain licences or registrations with applicable gaming regulatory authorities. To meet global compliance obligations, you will be required to provide the disclosure of relevant personal and background information to government agencies, sovereign nations/tribal regulators and other applicable gaming regulatory bodies. At this time, we are unable to sponsor work visas for this position. Candidates must be authorised to work in the job posting location for this position on a full‑time basis without the need for current or future visa sponsorship.