Senior Compliance Associate - Automation & Systems

Building the Future of Open Finance Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, Ninja Trader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.

The team 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, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.

The Compliance team at Payward plays a critical role in enabling the company to grow responsibly while navigating a rapidly evolving regulatory environment. Our teams work across jurisdictions and product lines to design and maintain scalable compliance frameworks that support Payward’s mission while ensuring regulatory obligations are met.

The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) Scale Team is responsible for ensuring the FIU can scale, across new operating jurisdictions and new products, effectively and efficiently. The team leads AML transaction monitoring and blockchain monitoring to ensure thresholds are appropriately set, tested, and governed while reducing false positives and maintaining strong oversight. In addition, the team focuses on identifying efficiencies in process workflows and implementing automation across the FIU.

Scale works closely with external vendor, Compliance, and internal technology teams.

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 bring5+ 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 regimes3+ years of experience designing, testing, and tuning transaction monitoring rules, including threshold optimization, scenario design, and alert reduction strategies3+ 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 one licensed to operate in the EU, UK, and/or United States Experience driving process optimization or automation initiatives within compliance or financial crime programs to improve operational efficiency and scalability

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, with experience using metrics, dashboards, and data analysis to evaluate monitoring effectiveness and improve detection quality

Experience operating in fast-growing fintech, payments, or crypto environments, with the ability to design scalable compliance controls that support new product launches and geographic expansion

Experience working with AI, machine learning, or LLM-enabled compliance tools, including investigative automation or alert triage technologies

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 havesACAMS, CAMS-Audit, CFCS, or similar financial crime certifications

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