Sr. Compliance Associate - Market Surveillance

As a Senior Compliance Associate in Market Surveillance at Kraken, you review and investigate market abuse across our regulated trading venues, spanning spot crypto markets, crypto futures, tokenised equities, OTC markets and consumer trading. You carry out day-to-day surveillance, investigate complex behavioural patterns, and help build out our surveillance programme as the business grows.

What you'll do

• Review and disposition surveillance alerts across our regulated markets, and document your reasoning clearly enough that others can follow your decision-making.
• Carry out analytical reviews that begin with trade and order data rather than with system-generated alerts.
• Investigate escalated behaviour end to end: gather the data, reconstruct what happened, and write it up for senior compliance stakeholders.
• Assess referrals raised from across the business and externally, and take forward the ones that warrant investigation.
• Draft suspicious transaction and order reports and suspicious activity reports.
• Produce management information and regulatory reporting for the entities we cover.
• Contribute to surveillance platform and tooling work, including bringing new products and data sources into scope and testing that detection behaves as intended.
• Use AI and automation tools to speed up evidence-gathering and case reconstruction, with human judgement over the final call.

What you bring

• At least 2 years of experience in trade surveillance, market abuse investigation or trading conduct inside a regulated firm such as an exchange, broker-dealer, trading venue, bank or comparable regulated trading business.
• Working knowledge of core market abuse typologies, including spoofing, layering, wash trading, insider dealing, front running and ramping.
• Experience reviewing and dispositioning surveillance alerts, and writing up your findings to a standard others can rely on.
• Clear, evidence-first written communication. Your case files and escalations will sometimes be read by auditors and regulators without you in the room to explain them.
• Comfort using generative AI and other automation tools to improve the speed and quality of investigative work, while maintaining the oversight that regulated casework requires.
• Based in the UK, Ireland, Cyprus, Malta, Romania or Canada, with fluency in English.

Nice to have

• Exposure to crypto-asset markets.
• Hands-on use of a surveillance platform such as Scila, Nasdaq SMARTS, Eventus or NICE Actimize.
• SQL or a similar query tool for evidence-gathering.
• Experience drafting suspicious transaction and order reports or suspicious activity reports.
• Electronic communications surveillance experience.

About Kraken

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