Risk and Compliance Officer; FTC

Join our journey to create a new experience for The National Lottery and help us to power change for the greater good.

We are Allwyn UK, part of the Allwyn Entertainment Group – a multi‑national lottery operator with a market‑leading presence across Europe which includes:
Czech Republic, Austria, Greece, Cyprus & Italy.

While the main contribution of The National Lottery to society is through the funds to good causes, at Allwyn we put our purpose and values at the heart of everything we do. Join us as we embark on a once‑in‑a‑lifetime, large scale transformation journey by creating a National Lottery that delivers more money to good causes.

We’ll talk a bit more about us further down the page, but for now – let’s talk about the role and who we’re looking for…

The Risk and Compliance Officer is a vital part of the Security Governance, Risk and Compliance team. This role will be responsible for:

• Undertaking risk assessments and managing the local and functional risk registers. Ensuring risks are identified, raised and managed in accordance with the Enterprise Risk Management Framework, actions are agreed and delivered on time, and information is kept up to date and accurate
• Managing and maturing the Third party Risk Management Policy and Framework
• Providing support and oversight with regards to the Identity and Access Management Framework, ensuring high quality output and access control findings are remediated within a timely manner
• Ensuring Allwyn remains compliant with the relevant legislative, regulatory and business requirements, as well as any latest versions of the frameworks/ standards/ requirements (such as Licence 4, ISO
  27001, WLA:
  
  SCS, PCI‑DSS and DPA 2018)
• Facilitating, managing and being part of security and privacy audits (both internally and externally). Ensuring evidence is readily available - and findings / areas of improvements are implemented into BAU in order to mitigate the risks associated
• Secretariat for Governance Committees whilst collating information, metrics and support writing the relevant governance papers
• Enhancing Alwyn's Security culture by conducting ongoing training and awareness of various related threat topics.

The Allwyn’s security team’s purpose is to protect the integrity of the National Lottery and to do so we work in a heavily regulated environment and have to secure one of the most visited websites in the UK, a very large retail channel and numerous back office systems spread across both on premise data centers and in the cloud.

This role will be well suited to someone who has experience and knowledge working within Information Security, risk and compliance for a while leading on all aspects of GRC including:

• Ability to demonstrate good understanding in the field of Information Security in terms of concepts, standards, frameworks and technologies
• Good understanding of the UK Data Protection legislation and principles
• Experience with security governance and compliance requirements (e.g. DPA, PCI‑DSS, ISO
  27001)
• Experience with working both individually with minimal supervision, and working as a part of larger teams on projects of varying complexities
• Ability to articulate technical /complex or sensitive issues / risks to a wide audience and manage them in accordance with wider frameworks
• An excellent level of attention to detail, and a strong sense of ownership
• Demonstrable experience with learning and applying new concepts quickly
• Thirst to learn

Highly desirable:

• Information security management qualifications or degrees such as a BSC or MSC in Information Security - or CISM, CISSP or equivalent is highly desirable
• Python knowledge / experience

We’ve developed ground‑breaking technologies, built player protection frameworks, and have a proven track record of making lotteries better.

• Innovation - We pride ourselves on it! We’re constantly looking for new ways to excite our customers, bringing new products to enjoy which is all underpinned by our responsible play values and making them accessible to all.
• Giving back – Did you know that playing the lottery generates around £30m a week for charities and…