Senior Compliance Associate - Automation & Systems

Building the Future of Open Finance Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, Ninja

Trader, 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. The team 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 Compliance team at Payward plays a critical role in enabling the company to grow responsibly while navigating a rapidly evolving regulatory environment. Our teams work across jurisdictions and product lines to design and maintain scalable compliance frameworks that support Payward’s mission while ensuring regulatory obligations are met. The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) Scale Team is responsible for ensuring the FIU can scale, across new operating jurisdictions and new products, effectively and efficiently.

The team leads AML transaction monitoring and blockchain monitoring to ensure thresholds are appropriately set, tested, and governed while reducing false positives and maintaining strong oversight. In addition, the team focuses on identifying efficiencies in process workflows and implementing automation across the FIU. Scale works c