Internal Audit Financial Crime & Conduct Manager

As an Internal Audit Financial Crime & Conduct Manager at Kraken (Payward), you will lead the global financial crime and conduct audit program, evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of controls across AML/CFT, sanctions, anti-bribery and corruption, market integrity, and conduct risk. You'll partner with Internal Audit leadership to deliver audit work that directly shapes how the business protects itself against some of its highest-visibility risks, spanning multiple jurisdictions and regulatory regimes.

What you'll do

• Lead audits across financial crime compliance, including AML/CFT, sanctions, and anti-bribery and corruption, as well as conduct and market integrity risk, across multiple jurisdictions and regulatory regimes
• Perform risk assessments to identify key areas of exposure and prioritize audit coverage
• Design and execute control testing across business and compliance processes, evaluating both design and operating effectiveness
• Assess conduct and market integrity controls, including market abuse and surveillance, personal account dealing and conflicts of interest, and consumer protection
• Shape and contribute to multi-year audit plans aligned to Payward's financial crime and conduct risk profile across jurisdictions
• Lead AI-enabled auditing by applying generative AI, agentic workflows, and data analytics across the audit lifecycle to expand testing coverage, sharpen risk targeting, and improve efficiency, while retaining human ownership of judgment and conclusions
• Lead multiple audit engagements concurrently, managing planning, fieldwork, and reporting end-to-end
• Document audit findings, including control gaps and root cause, and draft clear, well-supported workpapers and reports
• Track and validate remediation of identified issues, escalating delays or gaps to Internal Audit leadership
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of audit methodologies and frameworks, and ensure conformance with the IIA Global Internal Audit Standards and the function's quality assurance requirements
• Lead engagement teams, including staffing and coordinating co-sourced resources, to ensure quality and timely delivery across audits
• Partner with stakeholders across Compliance, Legal, Risk, and Business teams to communicate audit results and advise on control improvements, while maintaining audit independence
• Present findings and recommendations to senior stakeholders, including senior management, the Audit Committee, and, where applicable, regulators
• Support regulatory examinations and enforcement-related follow-up relevant to financial crime and conduct
• Monitor evolving financial crime typologies, sanctions regimes, conduct expectations, and regulatory guidance across the jurisdictions relevant to Payward's business

What you bring

• 8+ years of experience in internal audit, or a combination of audit and financial crimes compliance roles, within financial services
• Direct experience assessing or auditing financial crime compliance programs, including AML/CFT frameworks
• Multi-jurisdiction experience auditing or assessing compliance programs across more than one regulatory regime, ideally with globally distributed teams
• Strong understanding of financial crime risks, including AML, sanctions, and anti-bribery and corruption
• 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, including managing audit workstreams and engagement teams
• Comfort operating across multiple time zones, partnering with globally distributed compliance, risk, and audit teams
• Ability to utilize generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality

Nice to have

• Relevant certifications: CAMS, CIA, CFE, or equivalent
• Familiarity with crypto, fintech, or digital asset financial crime typologies
• Familiarity with audit management platforms such as AuditBoard or Workiva

About Kraken (Payward)

Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, founded in 2011 and trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions globally. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services for both individual investors and institutional clients. Payward, the parent company, has spent 15 years building a modern, globally accessible financial infrastructure platform that advances an open, global financial system.