Sr. Compliance Associate Lead - Market Surveillance

Kraken's Market Surveillance function is responsible for detecting, investigating and reporting market abuse across our regulated trading venues, spanning spot crypto markets, crypto futures, tokenised equities, OTC markets and consumer trading. We are hiring a Senior Compliance Associate Lead to take on our more complex casework, own an area of the surveillance programme, and act as a senior point of reference for the analysts around them.

Responsibilities

Take the more 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 a 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 the risks identified into surveillance coverage

Requirements

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 up to a standard a regulator can rely on and presenting conclusions to stakeholders; Solid knowledge of the 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, Canada, with fluency in English

Nice to have

Exposure to crypto-asset markets is welcomed but not required; 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