Sr. Compliance Associate Lead - Market Surveillance

As a Sr. Compliance Associate Lead at Kraken, you take on complex market abuse investigations end to end, own an area of our surveillance programme, and act as a senior point of reference for the analysts around you. Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions. Our Market Surveillance function detects, investigates and reports market abuse across regulated trading venues spanning spot crypto markets, crypto futures, tokenised equities, OTC markets and consumer trading.

What you'll do

• Take on complex investigations end to end, including those that begin as a referral rather than an alert, and present conclusions to senior compliance stakeholders and the business
• Act as a senior reviewer for colleagues' work and a point of escalation for judgement calls on how an alert or case should be treated
• Contribute to threshold and model reviews, recalibrating detection as trading behaviour, products and market structure change
• Support surveillance platform and tooling work, including setting out what detection needs to achieve and validating that it does
• Draft suspicious transaction and order reports and suspicious activity reports
• Contribute to market abuse risk assessment work and help translate identified risks into surveillance coverage

What you bring

• At least 4 years investigating market abuse or trading conduct inside a firm subject to market conduct regulation
• A track record running investigations end to end, including writing findings to a standard a regulator can rely on and presenting conclusions to stakeholders
• Solid knowledge of core market abuse typologies and how they present differently across asset classes
• Hands-on experience with a surveillance platform such as Scila, Nasdaq SMARTS, Eventus or NICE Actimize, and 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 the judgement to know when something needs escalating
• Based in the UK, Ireland, Cyprus or Canada, with fluency in English

Nice to have

• Exposure to crypto-asset markets
• Experience mentoring or acting as a senior reviewer for less experienced analysts
• Experience of a surveillance platform implementation or build-out
• Electronic communications surveillance experience

About Kraken

Kraken, part of Payward, is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, offering spot trading, margin, futures, staking and OTC services to over 10 million individuals and institutions globally.