About the role
Payward builds financial infrastructure platforms to advance an open, global financial system. Kraken is a crypto platform offering spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services to individual investors and institutional clients. Its Market Surveillance function detects, investigates, and reports market abuse across regulated trading venues, including spot crypto markets, crypto futures, tokenised equities, OTC markets, and consumer trading.
Responsibilities
•Conduct complex investigations end to end, including referrals, and present conclusions to senior compliance stakeholders and the business
•Review colleagues' work and serve as an escalation point for decisions on alerts and cases
•Contribute to threshold and model reviews, recalibrating detection as trading behaviour, products, and market structure change
•Support surveillance platform and tooling work by defining detection objectives and validating outcomes
•Draft suspicious transaction and order reports and suspicious activity reports
•Contribute to market abuse risk assessments and translate identified risks into surveillance coverage
Requirements
•At least 4 years investigating market abuse or trading conduct at a firm subject to market conduct regulation
•Experience running investigations end to end, writing findings to a regulator-reliable standard, and presenting conclusions to stakeholders
•Solid knowledge of core market abuse typologies and how they differ 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
•Clear, evidence-first written communication and sound judgement about when to escalate
•Based in the UK, Ireland, Cyprus, or Canada
•Fluent in English
Nice to have
•Exposure to crypto-asset markets
•Mentoring or senior review experience
•Surveillance platform implementation or build-out experience
•Electronic communications surveillance experience
Conditions
•Applicants may redact or remove resume information identifying age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution
•Qualified applicants with criminal histories are considered in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
•Job-related skills or work-style assessments may be part of the hiring process; results are considered alongside experience and interviews and are not the sole basis for an employment decision
