Senior Compliance Associate Lead Market Surveillance
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 lead complex market-abuse investigations from referral or alert through conclusion and present your findings to senior stakeholders. You will review colleagues' work, resolve escalations, recalibrate surveillance detection, support platform work, draft regulatory reports, and translate market-abuse risks into surveillance coverage.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of experience investigating market abuse or trading conduct in a regulated firm
- Experience leading investigations end to end, documenting regulator-ready findings, and presenting conclusions
- Knowledge of market abuse typologies across asset classes
- Experience with a surveillance platform such as Scila, Nasdaq SMARTS, Eventus, or NICE Actimize
- Experience with SQL or a similar query tool
- Exposure to threshold or model calibration, platform integration, or market abuse risk assessment
- Evidence-based written communication and escalation judgement
- Based in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Cyprus, or Canada
- Fluency in English
Responsibilities
- Lead complex investigations end to end and present conclusions to stakeholders
- Review colleagues' work and resolve case-treatment escalations
- Contribute to threshold and model reviews
- Support surveillance platform and tooling work
- Draft suspicious transaction and order reports and suspicious activity reports
- Contribute to market abuse risk assessments and surveillance coverage
Hiring Process
Job-related skills or work-style assessment may be required.
