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About the role
Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
The Sr. Compliance Associate Lead, Sanctions Operations sits at the heart of how we review, escalate and resolve sanctions risk across Kraken's global footprint. This role reports directly to Kraken's Chief Sanctions Officer and focuses on complex sanctions risks while making operations faster and more scalable.
What you'll do
- Perform sanctions reviews in response to escalations generated from blockchain monitoring, name screening, and transaction screening.
- Review name screening alerts and transaction screening alerts escalated to the Sanctions team.
- Review blockchain monitoring alerts for direct and indirect sanctions exposure.
- Analyse Kraken accounts for potential sanctions circumvention risk.
- Review account opening documentation escalated by Kraken's first line of defence (1LOD).
- Review large data sets to support proactive and ad-hoc risk analyses.
- Communicate with Regional Compliance Officers and other Compliance teams to ensure regional perspectives are reflected.
- Coordinate with teammates to establish streamlined processes using automation and AI-assisted tools.
- Prepare regulatory reports in response to investigations as needed.
- Prepare and deliver presentations as needed.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years of experience in compliance, sanctions or financial crime compliance, including hands-on sanctions investigations.
- Working knowledge of major sanctions regimes: US OFAC, EU, UK and UN programmes.
- Experience writing sanctions reviews or investigation narratives.
- Strong analytical and writing skills with a detail-oriented, problem-solving approach.
- Knowledge of crypto, banking or payment processes, procedures and systems.
- Experience working 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.
- A bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to have
- ACAMS (CAMS) or ACSS sanctions certification.
- Prior regulatory experience or blockchain analytics vendor experience.
- Experience supporting regulatory exams, audits or enforcement-related inquiries.
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