Senior Lead, Compliance – Sanctions Operations

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $72.6k - $145.2k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🚨 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

• Perform sanctions reviews for escalations from blockchain monitoring, name screening, transaction screening, anti-circumvention controls, and account sign-up and maintenance rules • Review name-screening and transaction-screening alerts escalated to the Sanctions team • Review blockchain-monitoring alerts for direct and indirect sanctions exposure • Analyze Kraken accounts for potential sanctions circumvention risk • Review account-opening documentation escalated by the first line of defence • Review large data sets for proactive and ad-hoc risk analyses • Communicate with Regional Compliance Officers and other Compliance teams • Coordinate streamlined processes using automation and AI-assisted tools with appropriate human oversight • Prepare regulatory reports in response to investigations • Prepare and deliver presentations as needed • Report directly to Kraken's Chief Sanctions Officer

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in compliance, sanctions, or financial crime compliance • Hands-on sanctions investigations experience, ideally in banking, crypto, or fintech • Working knowledge of US OFAC, EU, UK, and UN sanctions programmes • Experience writing sanctions reviews or investigation narratives • Strong analytical and writing skills • Sound judgment and detail-oriented problem-solving approach • Knowledge of crypto, banking, or payment processes, procedures, and systems • Experience with case management systems such as Hummingbird, Zendesk, or equivalent • Hands-on experience using automation and AI tools such as Claude or ChatGPT • Effective verbal and written communication skills • Ability to convey complex issues and manage stakeholders across global and regional compliance partners • Ability to collaborate across functions • Record of delivering results in a fast-paced environment • High integrity, discretion, and ability to handle confidential and sensitive information • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience • ACAMS (CAMS) or ACSS sanctions certification preferred • Prior regulatory experience or blockchain analytics vendor experience preferred • Experience supporting regulatory exams, audits, or enforcement-related inquiries preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonus program • Equity program • Wellness allowance • Medical benefits • Dental benefits • Vision benefits • 401(k) • Remote work arrangement • Kraken product dogfooding opportunity/requirement after joining