About The Position
Payward, the parent company behind Kraken and other financial services brands, builds financial infrastructure to advance an open, global financial system. Kraken’s Market Surveillance function detects, investigates, and reports market abuse across regulated trading venues, including spot crypto markets, crypto futures, tokenised equities, OTC markets, and consumer trading. The Senior Compliance Associate Lead will take on complex surveillance casework, own an area of the surveillance programme, and serve as a senior point of reference for analysts. The role includes leading investigations, reviewing colleagues’ work, contributing to detection calibration and surveillance tooling, drafting suspicious transaction and activity reports, and helping translate market abuse risks into surveillance coverage.
Requirements
- At least 4 years investigating market abuse or trading conduct within a firm subject to market conduct regulation.
- Experience running investigations end to end, writing findings to a regulator-reliable standard, and presenting conclusions to stakeholders.
- Solid knowledge of core market abuse typologies and how they present across asset classes.
- Hands-on experience with a surveillance platform such as Scila, Nasdaq SMARTS, Eventus, or NICE Actimize.
- Comfort with SQL or a similar query tool.
- Exposure to threshold or model calibration, platform integration, or market abuse risk assessment work.
- Clear, evidence-first written communication and sound judgement about when to escalate.
- Based in the UK, Ireland, Cyprus, or Canada.
- Fluency in English.
Nice To Haves
- Exposure to crypto-asset markets.
- Experience mentoring or acting as a senior reviewer for less experienced analysts.
- Experience with a surveillance platform implementation or build-out.
- Electronic communications surveillance experience.
Responsibilities
- Lead complex investigations end to end, including cases originating from referrals rather than alerts, and present conclusions to senior compliance stakeholders and the business.
- Review colleagues’ work and provide escalation support on decisions about alerts and cases.
- Contribute to threshold and model reviews, recalibrating detection as trading behaviour, products, and market structure change.
- Support surveillance platform and tooling work by defining detection requirements and validating that they are met.
- Draft suspicious transaction and order reports and suspicious activity reports.
- Contribute to market abuse risk assessment work and translate identified risks into surveillance coverage.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
