Sr. Compliance Associate - Market Surveillance

The role

Senior Compliance Associates will carry out day to day surveillance across markets and investigate uncovered activities. They will also help build the programme as the business grows.

What you will do

• Review and disposition surveillance alerts across regulated markets.
• Carry out analytical reviews starting with trade and order data.
• Investigate escalated behaviour end to end.
• Assess referrals raised from across the business and externally.
• Draft suspicious transaction and order reports and suspicious activity reports.
• Produce management information and regulatory reporting.
• Contribute to surveillance platform and tooling work.
• Use AI and automation tools to speed up evidence-gathering and case reconstruction.

Required qualifications

• At least 2 years experience in trade surveillance, market abuse investigation or trading conduct inside a regulated firm.
• Working knowledge of the core market abuse typologies, for example spoofing, layering, wash trading, insider dealing, front running and ramping.
• Experience reviewing and dispositioning surveillance alerts and writing up findings.
• Clear, evidence-first written communication.
• Comfort using generative AI and other automation tools.
• Based in the UK, Ireland, Cyprus, Malta, Romania or Canada.
• Fluency in English.

Nice to have

• Exposure to crypto-asset markets
• Hands-on use of a surveillance platform such as Scila, Nasdaq SMARTS, Eventus or NICE Actimize
• SQL or a similar query tool for evidence-gathering
• Experience drafting suspicious transaction and order reports or suspicious activity reports
• Electronic communications surveillance experience

Before you apply

• 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.
• We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process.

About the company

Payward is the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks. Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions.