Senior Financial Crime Compliance Associate

Strengthen financial crime controls with Payward, using transaction monitoring expertise and analytical skills to support Kraken’s global crypto platform. Work across products and jurisdictions.

This Senior Compliance Associate serves on the Financial Intelligence Unit Scale Team, helping Payward grow responsibly while meeting regulatory obligations. The position focuses on suspicious activity detection, monitoring infrastructure, automation, and investigative workflows. You will collaborate with Compliance leadership, Product, Engineering, Data, Operations, and external vendors to improve operational effectiveness and scalability.

• Maintain governed transaction monitoring frameworks aligned with expectations
• Improve alert detection quality and reduce false positives
• Implement automation across financial intelligence workflows
• Enhance alert triage, investigations, and SAR filing capabilities
• Partner on monitoring controls and regtech integrations

• Deep knowledge of BSA/AML regulatory expectations
• 3+ years optimizing monitoring scenarios and thresholds
• Experience with case management and monitoring systems
• Cross-functional experience implementing compliance technology solutions
• ACAMS, CAMS-Audit, CFCS, or similar certification preferred

Bring financial crime compliance, workflow automation, and monitoring expertise to support responsible growth across Payward’s evolving product landscape.