Senior Compliance Associate Lead – Market Surveillance

🔥 20 hours ago

🌐 United Kingdom, Ireland, +2 more countries – Remote

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇮🇪 Ireland – Remote 🇨🇾 Cyprus – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🚔 Compliance

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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

• Investigate complex market abuse cases end to end, including referrals that do not originate as alerts • Present investigation conclusions to senior compliance stakeholders and the business • Review colleagues’ work as a senior reviewer • Serve as an escalation point for alert and case-treatment judgement calls • Contribute to threshold and model reviews and recalibrate detection as trading behaviour, products and market structure change • Support surveillance platform and tooling work by defining detection objectives and validating results • Draft suspicious transaction and order reports and suspicious activity reports • Contribute to market abuse risk assessments and translate identified risks into surveillance coverage

🎯 Requirements

• At least 4 years investigating market abuse or trading conduct inside a firm subject to market conduct regulation • Track record running investigations end to end, writing findings to a regulator-reliant standard, and presenting conclusions to stakeholders • Solid knowledge of core market abuse typologies across asset classes • Hands-on experience with a surveillance platform such as Scila, Nasdaq SMARTS, Eventus or NICE Actimize • Comfort with SQL or a similar query tool • Exposure to threshold or model calibration, platform integration, or market abuse risk assessment work • Clear, evidence-first written communication and judgement about escalation • Based in the UK, Ireland, Cyprus, or Canada • Fluency in English • Crypto-asset markets exposure is welcomed but not required • Experience mentoring or acting as a senior reviewer for less experienced analysts is a nice-to-have • Experience of surveillance platform implementation or build-out is a nice-to-have • Electronic communications surveillance experience is a nice-to-have

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employment practices • Job-related skills or work-style assessments considered alongside experience and interviews • Opportunity to work remotely • Opportunity to work with a globally accessible financial infrastructure platform • Ongoing applications when no deadline is stated

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