Senior Technical Program Manager, Data & Audit Readiness
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 coordinate the Data team's audit engagements and act as its liaison with Internal Audit, Risk, Security, Finance, Compliance, and external auditors. You will maintain audit inventories, response playbooks, data catalogs, readiness statuses, tagging and governance processes, and auditor access roles as a continuous audit-readiness practice.
Requirements
- 7+ years of program or project management, audit coordination, or data governance experience
- Experience with SOC, SOX, IT general controls, or other regulatory audit frameworks
- Experience coordinating audit engagements or liaising with Audit, Risk, Compliance, or external auditors
- Experience building and maintaining inventories, playbooks, or recurring cross-functional process documentation
- Familiarity with data cataloging, tagging, and governance practices
- Understanding of data access management principles
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Responsibilities
- Act as the Data team's program management layer during audits
- Maintain audit inventories, playbooks, and catalogs continuously between audits
- Create and manage inventories of audit tests, expected requests, and response playbooks
- Maintain catalogs of audit-scoped data sources, issues, readiness statuses, and improvement areas
- Coordinate with Finance, Security, and Compliance during audit activities
- Implement tagging and governance processes with Data Governance
- Manage the auditor data access role