Director, Compliance Audit – iLottery & Interactive

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.

• 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 but not limited to 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 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, making sure 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.

• 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 various 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 recognized 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.

Company Summary

About Aristocrat

Aristocrat Leisure Limited (ASX: ALL) is a leading gaming content creation company powered by technology to deliver industry-leading casino games together with mobile games and online real money games, collectively entertaining millions of players worldwide, every day. Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, Aristocrat has three operating business units, spanning regulated land-based gaming (Aristocrat Gaming), social casino (Product Madness) and regulated online real money (Aristocrat Interactive). Our team of over 8,500 people across the globe are united by our company mission to bring joy to life through the power of play.

Our Values

• All about the Player

• Talent Unleashed

• Collective Brilliance

• Good Business Good Citizen

Travel Expectations

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 licenses or registrations with applicable gaming regulatory authorities.

Aristocrat operates in a highly regulated environment and holds licenses in over 340 gaming jurisdictions worldwide. To meet our 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. This is a condition of Aristocrat’s gaming licenses. The specific information required may vary depending on the jurisdiction and project assignment.