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Head of Risk and Compliance

At Xanadu, we provide services to Matchbook, a sophisticated betting exchange. This uses peer-to-peer betting where customers can choose to either place a bet or take a bet. It’s suitable for all types of bettors from casual punters to professional traders. Matchbook is no ordinary platform. It has more in common with the New York Stock Exchange than with a bookmaker. It operates at scale. Its API processes over 450 million API requests per day. It manages billions of dollars worth of transactions.

With more regulated markets opening around the world we face new opportunities for further expansion, leveraging our cutting-edge technology to provide our partners with an extremely performant and dependable exchange system. The challenges here are big. The people you’ll work with are hungry to tackle them. If this sounds like a challenge too good to ignore, then we want to hear from you.

What will I be doing?

  • ​Provide leadership & direction to the business in respect of best practice in Risk, Compliance and Anti Money Laundering
  • ​Be the external point of contact on risk and compliance matters with stakeholders, auditors and regulators (UKGC, AGCC)
  • ​Be the internal point of contact for regulatory advice, guidance and queries
  • ​Ensure the Three Lines of Defence Model is maintained and continuously improved
  • ​Provide strong leadership and effective management of the existing highly motivated team, ensuring they are prepared to meet the demands of an ever-changing and high growth business environment
  • ​Lead and promote a top class compliance culture and framework throughout the group, promoting values & behaviours, ensuring each function within the business fully complies with licensing and regulatory requirements
  • ​Take ownership of the following sectors of the business; Regulatory contact and reporting, policies and procedures, AML (Fraud, KYC, EDD, Customer Risk Assessment), Responsible Gambling, compliance risk assessment/register, Compliance Committee, compliance complaints, compliance monitoring (internal audit), maintain the internal control system (ICS) document, training, payments and data protection
  • ​Report to the GC, Compliance Committee, Senior Management Team and relevant Boards, any key findings and recommendations on all Risk & Compliance matters via regular reporting
  • ​Be the lead person on the Compliance Committee, ensuring agendas, reports and minutes are maintained and interact with the independent chairperson
  • ​Monitor & implement new regulatory guidance, identify compliance requirements, update/create policies and procedures and liaise with all levels of management, Compliance Committee and the Board to address and establish controls as needed
  • ​Continually assess systems via compliance monitoring to improve the controls environment, identify areas of the business where there may be a risk of non-compliance and develop projects to implement remedial plans
  • ​Where appropriate, help manage third party relationships and share best practice with them to facilitate compliance with licensing and regulatory requirements

What we are looking for - 

  • ​Strong relationship skills and the ability to work collaboratively
  • ​Decisiveness and an ability to explain and communicate decisions to a range of audiences at Board level, Compliance Committee, Compliance team and colleagues in other departments
  • ​The ability to make significant decisions in the face of uncertainty/ambiguity
  • ​The ability to influence both peers and the wider organisation whilst maintaining a cohesive dynamic
  • ​A positive enthusiastic individual who is capable of managing their own workload notwithstanding competing priorities, and who responds well to change
  • ​Commercially minded
  • ​A meticulous approach with an eye for detail
  • ​People person

The ideal candidate will -

  • ​Have a minimum of 3+ years experience in Risk and Compliance
  • ​Have comprehensive knowledge of gaming regulatory frameworks (UKGC), KYC, EDD, AML, Data Protection, and other areas relevant to the online gaming industry
  • ​Have had or currently have a working relationship with a regulator
  • ​Have reported to senior leadership 
  • ​Have led a team to help in the delivery of the risk and compliance objectives
  • ​Be experienced in identifying the risk of fraud and the means for detection, investigation and prevention
  • ​Have an understanding of the Three Lines of Defence model, risk management, risk registers, controls and governance
  • ​Hold a regulatory licence (e.g. a personal management licence issued by the UK Gambling Commission is desirable
Apply now!