Senior Compliance Associate Automation and Systems

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.

Recently funded
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States

Funding history

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 optimize transaction-monitoring rules and thresholds, improve FIU workflows through automation, and evaluate AI-enabled compliance tools. You will partner with Product, Engineering, and Operations on vendor integrations, monitoring infrastructure, and scalable compliance controls.

Requirements

  • AML
  • Financial crime compliance
  • FIU operations
  • Transaction monitoring
  • Suspicious activity detection
  • BSA
  • Case management
  • Compliance tooling
  • Automation
  • Data analysis
  • AI
  • Machine learning
  • LLM
  • Blockchain analytics
  • Chainalysis
  • TRM Labs
  • Elliptic
  • Regtech

Responsibilities

  • Optimize transaction-monitoring rules, thresholds, and scenarios
  • Drive FIU workflow automation and process improvements
  • Evaluate AI and LLM-enabled tools for alert triage and investigations
  • Support vendor integrations and monitoring infrastructure improvements
  • Maintain governed transaction-monitoring frameworks
  • Design monitoring strategies that support expansion and increased transaction volume

Hiring Process

Job-related skills or work-style assessment, considered alongside experience and interviews.