Head of Compliance

Department: Compliance

Reporting To: Group Compliance & Risk Director

Location: Ireland (Remote)/UK (Remote)/Gibraltar (Hybrid)

Key Responsibilities

• Assist the Group Compliance and Risk Director in the creation and maintenance of policies designed to ensure compliance across all relevant markets.
• Lead a team of compliance experts across the organisation, delivering expertise and guidance on the overall BOYLE Sports compliance approach across multiple markets.
• Support the enhancement and maturity of operational processes, acting as a regulatory subject matter expert and advising business areas on how to meet compliance obligations effectively.
• Lead the assessment, interpretation and implementation of regulatory change across relevant jurisdictions, ensuring new or amended requirements are translated into clear business actions, controls, policies and evidence of compliance.
• Monitor and maintain high-quality compliance frameworks, ensuring all policies and procedures are complied with.
• Oversee compliance monitoring, quality assurance and assurance activity across retail and digital operations, identifying control gaps, tracking remedial actions and reporting progress to senior stakeholders.
• Lead the understanding of regulatory expectations within teams, providing guidance and training across BOYLE Sports.
• Scope and manage the onboarding of new countries from a regulatory compliance perspective.
• Engage with regulators in new and existing markets, managing quarterly, annual and ad hoc reporting to regulatory bodies as required by each market.
• Lead or support responses to regulatory enquiries, audits, compliance assessments, information requests and reviews, ensuring responses are accurate, timely and appropriately evidenced.
• Support the identification, assessment, escalation and reporting of regulatory incidents, potential breaches and material compliance risks.
• Support the Learning and Development team to oversee a compliance training programme.
• Ensure training on all areas of social responsibility is delivered effectively across the organisation and that training content is aligned with country-specific requirements.
• Communicate regular updates to senior personnel on regulatory matters.
• Ensure regular monitoring of internal practices against regulatory requirements within the relevant jurisdictions.
• Undertake social responsibility audits across all jurisdictions to ensure compliance in these areas.
• Manage the pipeline of business requirements from enquiry through to delivery.
• Ensure gaming systems are set up and maintained in accordance with relevant regulatory requirements.
• Continue to develop and maintain knowledge of all areas of regulation within the required jurisdictions.
• Uphold BOYLE Sports values at all times, working within professional boundaries and maintaining safety.
• Support licence applications for any new regulated markets.
• Ensure licence conditions and ongoing regulatory requirements are monitored, maintained and complied with across all relevant markets
• Undertake occasional travel to Ireland and other international offices as required.