About The Position
Payward, the parent company behind Kraken and other financial services businesses, is hiring several Senior Compliance Associates for Kraken’s Market Surveillance function. The team detects, investigates, and reports market abuse across regulated trading venues, including spot crypto markets, crypto futures, tokenised equities, OTC markets, and consumer trading. The role supports day-to-day surveillance and investigations while helping expand the surveillance programme as the company’s licensing footprint and product range grow. The position involves reviewing and resolving surveillance alerts, conducting data-led analytical reviews, investigating escalated behaviour, and documenting findings for senior compliance stakeholders. It also includes assessing internal and external referrals, drafting suspicious transaction and order reports and suspicious activity reports, preparing management information and regulatory reporting, and contributing to surveillance platform and tooling improvements. The associate will use AI and automation to support evidence-gathering and case reconstruction while applying human judgement to decisions. The role is suited to candidates based in the UK, Ireland, Cyprus, Malta, Romania, or Canada who are fluent in English. Payward is an equal opportunity employer and may use job-related skills or work-style assessments during hiring.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of experience in trade surveillance, market abuse investigation, or trading conduct within a regulated firm or comparable regulated trading business.
- Working knowledge of core market abuse typologies, such as spoofing, layering, wash trading, insider dealing, front running, and ramping.
- Experience reviewing and dispositioning surveillance alerts and documenting findings to a reliable standard.
- Clear, evidence-first written communication suitable for case files and escalations that may be reviewed by auditors and regulators.
- Comfort using generative AI and other automation tools to improve investigative work while maintaining appropriate oversight for regulated casework.
- Based in the UK, Ireland, Cyprus, Malta, Romania, or Canada.
- Fluency in English.
Nice To Haves
- Exposure to crypto-asset markets.
- Hands-on use of a surveillance platform such as Scila, Nasdaq SMARTS, Eventus, or NICE Actimize.
- SQL or a similar query tool for evidence-gathering.
- Experience drafting suspicious transaction and order reports or suspicious activity reports.
- Electronic communications surveillance experience.
Responsibilities
- Review and disposition surveillance alerts across regulated markets, documenting the reasoning for each decision clearly.
- Conduct analytical reviews beginning with trade and order data rather than system-generated alerts.
- Investigate escalated behaviour end to end by gathering data, reconstructing events, and preparing findings for senior compliance stakeholders.
- Assess referrals from internal business teams and external sources, and pursue those that warrant further action.
- Draft suspicious transaction and order reports and suspicious activity reports.
- Produce management information and regulatory reporting for covered entities.
- Contribute to surveillance platform and tooling work, including adding new products and data sources to scope and testing detection behaviour.
- Use AI and automation tools to accelerate evidence-gathering and case reconstruction while retaining human judgement over final decisions.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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