Internal Audit Financial Crime and Conduct Manager
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.
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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.
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About the Role
You will lead the global financial crime and conduct audit program, assess controls across AML/CFT, sanctions, anti-bribery and corruption, market integrity, and conduct risk, manage audit engagements, validate remediation, lead audit teams, and report findings to senior stakeholders, committees, and regulators.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in internal audit or financial crimes compliance
- Financial services experience
- Experience auditing financial crime compliance programs
- Multi-jurisdiction experience
- Understanding of AML and sanctions risks
- Understanding of anti-bribery and corruption
- Understanding of conduct and market integrity risk
- Experience executing audits end-to-end
- Ability to assess control design and operating effectiveness
- Experience communicating findings to senior stakeholders
- Audit team leadership experience
- Ability to work across multiple time zones
- CAMS, CIA, CFE, or equivalent certification
- Familiarity with crypto or fintech financial crime typologies
- Familiarity with AuditBoard or Workiva
Responsibilities
- Lead financial crime compliance audits
- Audit AML/CFT, sanctions, and anti-bribery controls
- Assess conduct and market integrity controls
- Perform risk assessments
- Design and execute control testing
- Shape multi-year audit plans
- Apply generative AI and data analytics to audits
- Lead audit engagements from planning through reporting
- Document findings and root causes
- Draft workpapers and reports
- Track and validate issue remediation
- Improve audit methodologies
- Ensure conformance with IIA standards
- Lead engagement teams
- Coordinate co-sourced resources
- Communicate audit results and control recommendations
- Present findings to senior stakeholders and committees
- Support regulatory examinations
- Monitor financial crime typologies and regulatory guidance