Compliance Senior Lead Sanctions Operations
Payward, Inc. is the parent company and operating platform behind Kraken and a portfolio spanning trading, custody, payments, lending, tokenized assets, onchain finance, and benchmarks.
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About Payward, Inc.
Payward operates unified financial infrastructure across crypto and traditional markets, including shared liquidity, risk and margin systems, collateral and settlement, compliance, and licensing. Its first-party portfolio includes Kraken, Kraken Pro, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services, CF Benchmarks, Reap, Krak, Kraken Prime, Kraken OTC, Kraken Custody, and Bitnomial.
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About the Role
You will investigate sanctions-related escalations, screening alerts, blockchain-monitoring alerts, account activity, and account-opening documentation. You will analyze data, communicate with regional compliance partners, improve workflows with automation and AI tools, and prepare regulatory reports and presentations.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in compliance, sanctions, or financial-crime compliance
- Experience conducting sanctions investigations
- Knowledge of US OFAC, EU, UK, and UN sanctions programs
- Experience writing sanctions reviews or investigation narratives
- Analytical and writing skills
- Knowledge of crypto, banking, or payment processes
- Experience with case-management systems such as Hummingbird or Zendesk
- Experience using automation and AI tools such as Claude or ChatGPT
- Verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to manage stakeholders across global and regional compliance partners
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
Responsibilities
- Perform sanctions reviews for escalations from monitoring and screening controls
- Review and resolve name-screening and transaction-screening alerts
- Review blockchain-monitoring alerts for sanctions exposure
- Analyze accounts for potential sanctions-circumvention risk
- Review escalated account-opening documentation
- Review large datasets for risk analyses
- Communicate with regional compliance officers and compliance teams
- Establish streamlined processes using automation and AI-assisted tools with human oversight
- Prepare regulatory reports for investigations
- Prepare and deliver presentations
Benefits
- Bonus program
- Equity program
- Wellness allowance
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)