Senior Compliance Associate - Automation & Systems

Kraken; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 420,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Kraken in the United Arab Emirates seeks a seasoned AML/FIU leader to optimize transaction monitoring, tune rules, and design new monitoring scenarios to boost detection quality while reducing false positives.

You will collaborate with Compliance leadership, Product, Engineering and Operations to enable scalable compliance controls, integrate vendor and regtech solutions, and advance AI/LLM-enabled tooling for alert triage and investigations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in AML/financial crime compliance or FIU operations.
• 3+ years designing, testing and tuning transaction monitoring rules.
• 3+ years working with transaction monitoring systems and compliance tooling.
• Experience in regulated financial institutions, ideally EU/UK/US.
• Experience driving process optimization or automation within compliance or financial crime.
• Cross-functional collaboration with Product, Engineering, Data or Operations teams to implement monitoring controls or integrations.
• Strong analytical and data interpretation skills with dashboards and data analysis.
• Experience in fintech/payments/crypto environments with scalable controls for new products and geographies.
• Experience with AI, ML or LLM-enabled compliance tools for investigations or alert triage.
• Familiar with blockchain analytics tools (Chainalysis, TRM Labs, Elliptic) or similar.

Responsibilities

• Lead transaction monitoring optimization, including rule testing, threshold tuning 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 efficiency and effectiveness.
• Evaluate and implement emerging technologies including AI-enabled tools to enhance alert triage investigations and SAR filing.
• Partner with Product, Engineering and Operations to support vendor integrations, monitoring infrastructure, and FIU tooling enhancements.
• Collaborate with Compliance leadership to maintain well-governed transaction monitoring frameworks aligned with regulatory expectations.
• Support FIU scalability by designing processes and monitoring strategies for expansion into new products, regions and higher volumes.

Skills

AML / Financial crime

Transaction monitoring

Regulatory expectations

Rule design & tuning

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

AI / ML / LLM tools

Crypto analytics familiarity

Job description

The opportunity

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

What you bring

• 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

Nice to haves

• ACAMS CAMS-Audit CFCS or similar financial crime certifications

Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting applications are accepted on an ongoing basis

Please note 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 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