MLRO (Online Gambling)

Location: Hybrid in Swieqi, Malta or Gibraltar

Company

hirify.global is an international online casino company focused on gaming experiences, innovation, security, and responsible gaming.

What you will do

• Own and oversee the AML/CTF and wider financial crime compliance framework, including policies, procedures, controls, and risk assessments.
• Act as the designated MLRO and escalation point for suspicious activity, money laundering, terrorist financing, and other financial crime concerns.
• Assess suspicious activity reports, determine when external disclosures are required, and oversee complex investigations and high-risk customer cases.
• Lead improvements to KYC, due diligence, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, and customer risk methodologies.
• Engage with regulators and authorities during audits, inspections, information requests, and compliance reviews.
• Advise senior management, report material risks, collaborate across business functions, and promote AML awareness and escalation.

Requirements

• Significant experience in AML, financial crime prevention, or regulatory compliance, ideally in online gaming.
• Previous experience engaging with the UK Gambling Commission, including audits, reviews, or information requests.
• Proven experience handling complex AML investigations, high-risk customer cases, and regulatory reporting.
• Strong knowledge of KYC, CDD, EDD, Source of Funds, Source of Wealth, sanctions, PEP screening, and transaction monitoring.
• Experience developing or overseeing AML frameworks, risk assessments, policies, and internal controls.
• Confidence working with regulators, Financial Intelligence Units, and other relevant authorities.
• Excellent analytical skills, regulatory judgement, and the ability to make and communicate difficult risk-based decisions.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, including the ability to challenge decisions and influence senior colleagues.
• Proactive, commercially aware, independent, discreet, and highly integrity-driven approach.
• Ability to meet applicable regulatory suitability and approval requirements.

Nice to have

• Relevant AML qualification such as ICA or ACAMS.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time hybrid employment based in the Malta or Gibraltar office.
• Private health insurance and wellness support, including fitness allowances and mental well-being services.
• Flexible national holidays and office-specific lunch provisions.
• Work From Anywhere for two weeks per year, increasing to four weeks after longer employment within the company.
• Professional development through training platforms and hirify.global College, alongside social events and collaborative workplaces.
• hirify.global promotes the values Aspire, Believe, and Care.