[Hiring] FIU Compliance Associate - FIU Scale Team @Kraken

Role Description

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 closely with external vendor, Compliance, and internal technology teams.

The Senior Compliance Associate – FIU Scale Team is responsible for providing leadership and subject matter expertise in transaction monitoring testing, tuning, and new rule design and implementation. The role also supports the integration of LLM and AI-enabled solutions, vendor technology integrations, and efficiency planning across FIU processes. In addition, the position helps drive scalable improvements across core FIU BAU workflows.

The role will serve as a key point of coordination across Compliance Regional Compliance Officers and Money Laundering Reporting Officers, Product, Operations, and Engineering to support the FIU’s ability to scale effectively and efficiently alongside the company’s rapid growth, including expansion into new regions and the launch of new products.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in AML, financial crime compliance, or FIU operations, with 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, including threshold optimization, scenario design, and alert reduction strategies
• 3+ years of experience working with transaction monitoring systems and compliance tooling, including case management platforms, monitoring infrastructure, and investigative workflows
• Experience working in a regulated financial institution, preferably one licensed to operate in the EU, UK, and/or United States
• Experience driving process optimization or automation initiatives within compliance or financial crime programs to improve operational efficiency and scalability
• Experience working cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Data, or Operations teams to implement monitoring controls, vendor integrations, or compliance technology solutions
• Strong analytical and data interpretation skills, with experience using metrics, dashboards, and data analysis to evaluate monitoring effectiveness and improve detection quality
• Experience operating in fast-growing fintech, payments, or crypto environments, with the ability to design scalable compliance controls that support new product launches and geographic expansion
• Experience working with AI, machine learning, or LLM-enabled compliance tools, including investigative automation or alert triage technologies
• 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

Requirements

• Lead transaction monitoring optimization, including rule testing, threshold tuning, and the design and rollout of new monitoring scenarios to improve detection quality and reduce false positives
• Identify and drive automation and workflow improvements across FIU processes to increase operational efficiency and effectiveness
• Evaluate and implement emerging technologies, including LLM and AI-enabled tools, to enhance alert triage, investigations, SAR filing and FIU operational capabilities
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Operations to support vendor integrations, monitoring infrastructure improvements, and FIU tooling enhancements
• Collaborate with Compliance leadership, including RCOs and MLROs, to maintain well-governed transaction monitoring frameworks aligned with regulatory expectations
• Support FIU scalability by designing processes and monitoring strategies that enable expansion into new products, regions, and increased transaction volumes

Benefits

• Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
• We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
• We celebrate all Krakenites for their diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions and unique perspectives.
• We hire strictly based on merit, meaning we seek out the candidates with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills considered the most suitable for the job.
• We encourage you to apply for roles where you don't fully meet the listed requirements, especially if you're passionate or knowledgeable about crypto!