Risk & Compliance Manager (Corporate Functions Line 1) – 12 Month FTC
This is a high-impact role where the individual will partner closely with leaders across Finance and Corporate Functions to keep risk management practical, commercially aware, and built for pace. The role will play a key part in strengthening financial controls, supporting regulatory compliance, and helping the business move forward with confidence.
From SOX readiness to control uplift and transformation initiatives, the individual will bring a sharp eye for risk and a collaborative mindset that helps teams do great work, safely. This is a 12-month maternity leave cover commencing mid-late August 2026.
- Partner with leaders across Finance, People & Culture, Legal, Corporate Affairs, Commercial, and Procurement to provide pragmatic risk and compliance guidance.
- Strengthen the control environment across key corporate processes including financial controls, payroll, treasury, tax, procurement, and legal.
- Lead and coordinate SOX readiness, including control documentation, testing support, remediation, and continuous improvement.
- Support transformation projects and process changes by assessing impacts to financial reporting and key controls.
- Design, review, and enhance controls that are scalable, practical, and embedded into day-to-day business processes.
- Oversee assurance activity, track remediation actions, and help close control gaps in a sustainable way.
- Manage control issues, audit findings, and exceptions, including escalation, root cause analysis, and follow-through.
- Deliver clear, decision-useful reporting and insights that help leaders identify trends and strengthen risk outcomes.
- Strong experience in risk, compliance, governance, audit, or financial controls, ideally within a complex or highly regulated environment (required).
- A track record of designing, improving, and embedding control frameworks in operational settings (required).
- Experience partnering with senior stakeholders to provide clear, commercially aware advice on risk and regulatory obligations (required).
- Exposure to SOX programs, control testing, remediation, and audit support (required).
- A proactive, outcome-focused mindset with strong ownership, sound judgement, and the ability to influence change (required).
- A collaborative style and a genuine interest in innovation, continuous improvement, and using technology to strengthen risk management (required).
- 25 days annual leave.
- Hybrid working policy (Monday and Friday from home).
- Hack Days for creative projects.
- Weekly concierge service including free massages and nail appointments.
- Free breakfast, daily fresh fruit and weekly rotating socials.
- End of trip facilities with onsite table tennis and pool tables.
Sportsbet is a leading Australian online wagering operator and part of Flutter Entertainment. It serves more than 2.4 million customers through a customer-first, insight-driven approach, helping Australians engage with racing and sporting events. The company employs more than 1,300 people across Melbourne, Sydney and Darwin, with over half working in technology and data. As a market leader, Sportsbet emphasises corporate and social responsibility, customer safety and high industry standards, and is headquartered in Melbourne.