Senior Compliance Associate - Automation & Systems

The role

This person will lead transaction monitoring optimization and drive automation across FIU processes. They will evaluate emerging technologies like AI and LLM to enhance operational capabilities and partner with cross-functional teams to support monitoring infrastructure.

What you will do

• Lead transaction monitoring optimization including rule testing and threshold tuning
• Design and rollout new monitoring scenarios to improve detection and reduce false positives
• Identify and drive automation and workflow improvements across FIU processes
• Evaluate and implement emerging technologies including LLM and AI-enabled tools
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Operations to support vendor integrations and tooling enhancements
• Collaborate with Compliance leadership to maintain well-governed transaction monitoring frameworks
• Support FIU scalability by designing processes and monitoring strategies for new products and regions

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in AML, financial crime compliance, or FIU operations
• Deep knowledge of transaction monitoring frameworks, suspicious activity detection, and regulatory expectations under BSA/AML regimes
• 3+ years of experience designing, testing, and tuning transaction monitoring rules
• 3+ years of experience working with transaction monitoring systems and compliance tooling
• Experience working in a regulated financial institution
• Experience driving process optimization or automation initiatives within compliance or financial crime programs
• Experience working cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Data, or Operations teams
• Strong analytical and data interpretation skills
• Experience operating in fast-growing fintech, payments, or crypto environments
• Experience working with AI, machine learning, or LLM-enabled compliance tools
• Familiarity with blockchain analytics tools such as Chainalysis, TRM Labs, Elliptic, or similar crypto investigative platforms
• Experience supporting vendor selection, implementation, or integration of regtech solutions

Nice to have

• ACAMS, CAMS-Audit, CFCS, or similar financial crime certifications
• Licensed to operate in the EU, UK, and/or United States

Before you apply

• Applicants are permitted to redact or remove information on their resume that identifies age, date of birth, or dates of attendance or graduation
• Candidates may be asked to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments

About the company

Payward is the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks. Kraken is a crypto platform trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions.