Internal Audit Manager, Financial Crime & Conduct

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🌐 United Kingdom, Ireland – Remote

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇮🇪 Ireland – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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🔴 Lead

🚨 AML and Financial Crime

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Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2011

₿ Crypto

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

Crypto • Finance • Fintech

Kraken Digital Asset Exchange is a cryptocurrency platform that facilitates the buying and selling of over 200 cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and many others. Founded in 2011, Kraken provides a comprehensive suite of features for both beginner and advanced traders, such as advanced trading interfaces and margin trading. The platform emphasizes industry-leading security, deep liquidity, and 24/7 customer support, making it a trusted choice for users worldwide. Kraken caters to individual investors as well as institutional clients, offering services like OTC trading and custody. The company is committed to transparency with its proof of reserves and mission-driven values. Kraken operates globally, supporting clients in over 190 countries, with a quarterly trading volume exceeding $207 billion. However, users are advised of the high risk of crypto investments and the lack of regulation in some jurisdictions.

📋 Description

• Lead the global financial crime and conduct audit program across AML/CFT, sanctions, anti-bribery and corruption, conduct, and market integrity risk • Perform risk assessments and prioritize audit coverage • Design and execute control testing, evaluating design and operating effectiveness • Assess market abuse and surveillance, personal account dealing, conflicts of interest, and consumer protection controls • Shape and contribute to multi-year audit plans across jurisdictions • Apply generative AI, agentic workflows, and data analytics across the audit lifecycle • Lead multiple audit engagements from planning through fieldwork and reporting • Document findings, root causes, workpapers, and audit reports • Track and validate issue remediation and escalate delays or gaps • Improve audit methodologies and frameworks in line with IIA Global Internal Audit Standards and quality assurance requirements • Lead engagement teams and coordinate co-sourced resources • Partner with Compliance, Legal, Risk, and Business stakeholders while maintaining audit independence • Present findings to senior management, the Audit Committee, and regulators where applicable • Support regulatory examinations and enforcement-related follow-up • Monitor evolving financial crime typologies, sanctions regimes, conduct expectations, and regulatory guidance

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in internal audit or combined audit and financial crimes compliance roles within financial services • Direct experience assessing or auditing financial crime compliance programs, including AML/CFT frameworks • Experience across more than one regulatory regime, ideally with globally distributed teams • Strong understanding of AML, sanctions, and anti-bribery and corruption risks • Understanding of conduct and market integrity risk, including market abuse, personal account dealing, and consumer protection • Proven experience executing audits end-to-end: planning, fieldwork, and reporting • Ability to assess control design and operating effectiveness within complex organizations • Experience communicating findings and recommendations to senior stakeholders • Leadership experience managing audit workstreams and engagement teams • Ability to operate across multiple time zones with globally distributed teams • Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight • Relevant certifications such as CAMS, CIA, CFE, or equivalent are nice to have • Familiarity with crypto, fintech, or digital asset financial crime typologies is nice to have • Familiarity with AuditBoard or Workiva is nice to have

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work arrangement • Opportunity to work with globally distributed teams • Skills or work-style assessments applied consistently across candidates • Equal opportunity employment • Kraken product dogfooding after joining (stated as a requirement for everyone)