Compliance & Money Laundering Reporting Officer (Director)

Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Salary: AUD $190,000–$200,000 annually, plus superannuation and performance bonus.

Company

hirify.global is a large payments company operating across financial services and supporting businesses with payment solutions.

What you will do

• Lead the compliance function across Australia and New Zealand, providing strategic direction and independent oversight.
• Act as the designated MLRO and lead the Australian AML/CTF and financial crime compliance program.
• Oversee financial crime risk management, including customer due diligence, transaction monitoring, suspicious matter reporting, sanctions controls, remediation, and assurance.
• Maintain the compliance management framework and embed regulatory requirements into products, services, processes, controls, and strategic initiatives.
• Lead regulatory engagements, examinations, audits, information requests, and remediation activities with AUSTRAC and other regulators.
• Advise senior leaders, Board committees, and Australian Boards while leading and developing the Compliance team.

Requirements

• Relevant tertiary qualification in Law, Business, Finance, Commerce, Risk Management, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Extensive experience leading compliance, AML/CTF, and financial crime programs in payments, merchant acquiring, fintech, banking, or financial services.
• Experience acting as an MLRO or performing equivalent senior compliance leadership responsibilities.
• Strong knowledge of Australian regulatory requirements, including AFSL, AML/CTF, sanctions, and payments regulation.
• Experience designing and enhancing compliance and financial crime frameworks, risk assessments, monitoring, controls, and assurance programs.
• Strong analytical, investigative, communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with global and regional teams in an inclusive, collaborative environment.
• Partner with Legal, Risk, Product, Operations, Commercial, and Technology functions.
• Opportunities to influence compliance, financial crime awareness, and continuous improvement across the organisation.
• Superannuation and performance bonus included in the compensation package.