Building the Future of Open Finance 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 up-to-date and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients. 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. As our licensing footprint and product range grow, so does the scale and complexity of the surveillance programme behind them. 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. 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.



Contribute to market abuse risk assessment work, and help translate the risks identified into surveillance coverage. At least 4 years investigating market abuse or trading conduct inside a firm subject to market conduct regulation. 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. Based in the UK, Ireland, Cyprus, Canada, with fluency in English. 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. Please note, applicants are permitted to redact or remove information on their resume that identifies age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether based on race, ethnicity, age, gender identity, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. Follow us on Twitter

📌 Sr. Compliance Associate Lead (Winnipeg)
🏢 Kraken
📍 Winnipeg