Sr. Compliance Associate Lead - Market Surveillance
Job description
A Senior Compliance Associate Lead role in Kraken's Market Surveillance function, handling complex market abuse investigations and acting as a senior point of reference for analysts. The role owns an area of the surveillance programme across regulated trading venues.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote
What you'll do
- Take the more complex investigations end to end, including those that begin as a referral rather than an alert, and present conclusions to senior compliance stakeholders and the business
- Act as a senior reviewer for colleagues' work, and a point of escalation for judgement calls on how an alert or a case should be treated
- Contribute to threshold and model reviews, recalibrating detection as trading behaviour, products and market structure change
- Support surveillance platform and tooling work, including setting out what detection needs to achieve and validating that it does
- Draft suspicious transaction and order reports and suspicious activity reports
- Contribute to market abuse risk assessment work, and help translate the risks identified into surveillance coverage
What we're looking for
- At least 4 years investigating market abuse or trading conduct inside a firm subject to market conduct regulation
- A track record running investigations end to end, including writing findings up to a standard a regulator can rely on and presenting conclusions to stakeholders
- Solid knowledge of the core market abuse typologies and how they present differently across asset classes
- Hands-on experience with a surveillance platform such as Scila, Nasdaq SMARTS, Eventus or NICE Actimize, and 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 the judgement to know when something needs escalating
Nice to have
- Exposure to crypto-asset markets is welcomed but not required
- Experience mentoring or acting as a senior reviewer for less experienced analysts
- Experience of a surveillance platform implementation or build-out
- Electronic communications surveillance experience
Your team
Market Surveillance
Responsible for detecting, investigating and reporting market abuse across regulated trading venues, spanning spot crypto markets, crypto futures, tokenised equities, OTC markets and consumer trading.
How to get hired
- 1We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process
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About Kraken
Building the Future of Open Finance
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.
Mission
Built to advance an open, global financial system
Key facts
- 2011
- crypto
- Payward is the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, 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
- Trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe
What they value
- We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills for the job
- We celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table