LATAM Legal & Compliance Specialist
Job Summary
Job Description
The LATAM Legal & Compliance Specialist will oversee all compliance activities for Sporty's Brazilian and LATAM entities. Responsibilities include drafting and maintaining corporate policies, managing legal tasks, ensuring compliance with AML/CTF regulations, serving as a main point of contact for compliance matters, providing legal counsel, managing litigations, ensuring advertising compliance, and developing compliance training programs. The role requires strong legal expertise, experience in iGaming compliance (beneficial), and excellent organizational and communication skills. The successful candidate will report to the Brazilian Legal & Compliance Director, LATAM Finance Director, and LATAM Country Managers.
Must have:
- Bachelor's degree in Law (+5 yrs experience)
- Active OAB registry
- AML/CTF experience
- Compliance audit & reporting
- Fluency in English & Portuguese
- Drafting and reviewing legal documents
Good to have:
- iGaming industry experience
- Spanish fluency
Perks:
- Quarterly bonuses
- Flexible working hours
- Top-of-the-line equipment
- Referral bonuses
- 30 days paid annual leave
- Annual company retreat
2 skills required
Job Details
Sporty's sites are some of the most popular on the internet, consistently staying in Alexa's list of top websites for the countries they operate in.
The LATAM Legal & Compliance Specialist will oversee all compliance-related activities for the company's Brazilian and LATAM entities, ensuring adherence to regulatory frameworks, licensing and certification conditions, and internal policies.
This role includes the execution of operational routine tasks, managing audits, ensuring effective record-keeping, and coordinating with internal and external stakeholders to maintain regulatory compliance and mitigate risks, reporting to the Brazilian Legal & Compliance Director, to the LATAM Finance Director, and to the LATAM Country Managers.
Responsibilities:
- Draft, oversee, review, and maintain corporate policies and procedures to comply with current laws and regulations, liaising with the internal areas to ensure alignment with the product;
- Execute and manage legal & compliance routinely tasks across Brazilian and LATAM entities under supervision;
- Ensure compliance with customer due diligence, suspicious transaction reporting, and record-keeping as outlined in the applicable laws and regulations;
- Serve as the main point of contact and coordinate with internal teams to fulfill compliance and regulatory requirements and deadlines effectively;
- Provide support as a counselor when necessary in reviewing agreements and general advising, as well in handling administrative and judicial litigations with external third-party providers;
- Ensure compliance with advertising standards to prevent misleading marketing, renewal of the applicable licenses, and processes, self-exclusion policies and provide reports whenever necessary;
- Develop and deliver tailored training programs on compliance matters for company employees related to LATAM countries;
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Law, with +5yrs post qualification experience. Active OAB registry.
- Previous experience in iGaming industry would be beneficial (betting regulations and best practices, including the
Ordinances enacted by the Regulators);
- Experience in Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Counter-Terrorist Financing (CTF) measures;
- Familiarity with compliance audit processes and reporting;
- Excellent organisational, record-keeping and analytical skills.
- Strong interpersonal skills for effective collaboration with internal teams and external stakeholders.
- Attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities under strict deadlines.
- Fluency in English and Portuguese is a must, Spanish is also desired.
Benefits
Quarterly bonuses
Flexible working hours
Top-of-the-line equipment
Referral bonuses
30 days paid annual leave
Annual company retreat
Highly talented, dependable co-workers in a global, multicultural organisation
Our teams are small enough for you to be impactful
Our business is globally established and successful, offering stability and security to our Team Members
Our Mission
Our mission is to be an everyday entertainment platform for everyone
Our Operating Principles
1. Create Value for Users
2. Act in the Long-Term Interests of Sporty
3. Focus on Product Improvements & Innovation
4. Be Responsible
5. Preserve Integrity & Honesty
6. Respect Confidentiality & Privacy
7. Ensure Stability, Security & Scalability
8. Work Hard with Passion & Pride
Working at Sporty
The top-down mentality at Sporty is high performance based, meaning we trust you to do your job with an emphasis on support to help you achieve, grow and de-block any issues when they're in your way.
Generally employees can choose their own hours, as long as they are collaborating and doing stand-ups etc. The emphasis is really on results.
As we are a highly structured and established company we are able to offer the security and support of a global business with the allure of a startup environment. Sporty is independently managed and financed, meaning we don’t have arbitrary shareholder or VC targets to cater to.
We literally build, spend and make decisions based on the ethos of building THE best platform of its kind. We are truly a tech company to the core and take excellent care of our Team Members.
Benefits
Quarterly bonuses
Flexible working hours
Top-of-the-line equipment
Referral bonuses
30 days paid annual leave
Annual company retreat
Highly talented, dependable co-workers in a global, multicultural organisation
Our teams are small enough for you to be impactful
Our business is globally established and successful, offering stability and security to our Team Members
Our Mission
Our mission is to be an everyday entertainment platform for everyone
Our Operating Principles
1. Create Value for Users
2. Act in the Long-Term Interests of Sporty
3. Focus on Product Improvements & Innovation
4. Be Responsible
5. Preserve Integrity & Honesty
6. Respect Confidentiality & Privacy
7. Ensure Stability, Security & Scalability
8. Work Hard with Passion & Pride
Working at Sporty
The top-down mentality at Sporty is high performance based, meaning we trust you to do your job with an emphasis on support to help you achieve, grow and de-block any issues when they're in your way.
Generally employees can choose their own hours, as long as they are collaborating and doing stand-ups etc. The emphasis is really on results.
As we are a highly structured and established company we are able to offer the security and support of a global business with the allure of a startup environment. Sporty is independently managed and financed, meaning we don’t have arbitrary shareholder or VC targets to cater to.
We literally build, spend and make decisions based on the ethos of building THE best platform of its kind. We are truly a tech company to the core and take excellent care of our Team Members.
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