Compliance Monitoring Officer
Payward, Inc. is a global financial infrastructure company and the parent organization behind Kraken. It provides trading, custody, payments, lending, staking, tokenized assets, derivatives, and market data infrastructure to consumers, professional traders, institutions, enterprises, fintechs, banks, exchanges, asset managers, and onchain platforms.
Funding
Investors
About Payward, Inc.
Payward, Inc. operates a unified financial infrastructure platform powering a portfolio of products including Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, CF Benchmarks, and Payward Services. Its shared architecture provides global liquidity, risk and margin management, collateral and settlement, compliance and licensing, and operational infrastructure across crypto, tokenized assets, and traditional markets. Through Payward Services, the company offers APIs and infrastructure for crypto trading, custody, on/off-ramps, tokenized equities, derivatives, staking and yield, payments, and benchmark data. Payward operates across more than 190 jurisdictions and serves consumers, professional traders, institutional investors, enterprises, fintechs, banks, exchanges, asset managers, and DeFi/onchain protocols.
Skills
About the Role
You will develop and operate the compliance monitoring and testing programme for European operations. You will review processes, risks, and controls; identify gaps; manage remediation; and advise the business on regulations, policies, and procedures. You will implement AML/CFT policies, oversee emerging regulatory requirements, support product launches, deliver compliance training, oversee regulatory reporting, and review marketing materials for local compliance.
Requirements
- Experience in crypto, fintech, or another regulated, high-volume transaction industry.
- Second-line compliance experience in a previous senior role at a regulated MiFID investment firm, MTF, bank, crypto exchange, or payments firm.
- Experience with the CJA and CASP registrations.
- Experience managing complex global compliance projects.
- Risk analysis and sound judgment.
- Knowledge of compliance risk management techniques.
- Financial crimes and markets compliance experience.
Responsibilities
- Develop and implement a compliance monitoring and testing programme.
- Conduct reviews and assessments to identify non-compliance.
- Provide compliance advice and guidance on regulations, rules, and internal procedures.
- Develop and operationalise policies and procedures, including AML/CFT requirements.
- Oversee implementation of new regulatory requirements and manage horizon scanning.
- Work with the COO and CEO to implement operational compliance efficiencies.
- Support regional product rollouts.
- Develop and deliver compliance training programmes.
- Oversee regulatory reporting requirements.
- Ensure marketing materials comply with local requirements.
- Foster compliance awareness and accountability through communication and training.
