Senior Compliance Associate - Automation & Systems

About Kraken

Payward — the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services, and CF Benchmarks — has spent the last 15 years building modern, globally accessible financial infrastructure to advance an open, global financial system.

Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services.

The Team

The Compliance team at Payward plays a critical role in enabling responsible growth while navigating a rapidly evolving regulatory environment. The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) Scale Team is responsible for ensuring the FIU scales effectively across new operating jurisdictions and products. The team leads AML transaction monitoring and blockchain monitoring to set, test, and govern thresholds while reducing false positives, optimizing workflows, and implementing automation across the FIU.

The Opportunity

• Lead transaction monitoring optimization, including rule testing, threshold tuning, and the design and rollout of new monitoring scenarios to improve detection quality and reduce false positives.
• Identify and drive automation and workflow improvements across FIU processes to increase operational efficiency and effectiveness.
• Evaluate and implement emerging technologies, including LLM and AI-enabled tools, to enhance alert triage, investigations, SAR filing, and FIU operational capabilities.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Operations to support vendor integrations, monitoring infrastructure improvements, and FIU tooling enhancements.
• Collaborate with Compliance leadership, including RCOs and MLROs, to maintain well-governed transaction monitoring frameworks aligned with regulatory expectations.
• Support FIU scalability by designing processes and monitoring strategies that enable expansion into new products, regions, and increased transaction volumes.

What You Bring

• 5+ years of experience in AML, financial crime compliance, or FIU operations, with deep knowledge of transaction monitoring frameworks, suspicious activity detection, and regulatory expectations under BSA/AML regimes.
• 3+ years of experience designing, testing, and tuning transaction monitoring rules, including threshold optimization, scenario design, and alert reduction strategies.
• 3+ years of experience working with transaction monitoring systems and compliance tooling, including case management platforms, monitoring infrastructure, and investigative workflows.
• Experience working in a regulated financial institution, preferably licensed in the EU, UK, and/or United States.
• Proven track record of driving process optimization or automation initiatives within compliance or financial crime programs.
• Experience working cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Data, or Operations teams to implement monitoring controls, vendor integrations, or compliance technology solutions.
• Strong analytical and data interpretation skills, using metrics, dashboards, and data analysis to evaluate monitoring effectiveness.
• Experience operating in fast-growing fintech, payments, or crypto environments.
• Experience working with AI, machine learning, or LLM-enabled compliance tools for investigative automation or alert triage.
• Familiarity with blockchain analytics tools such as Chainalysis, TRM Labs, Elliptic, or similar crypto investigative platforms.
• Experience supporting vendor selection, implementation, or integration of RegTech solutions.

Nice to Haves

• ACAMS, CAMS-Audit, CFCS, or similar financial crime certifications.