Senior Crypto Compliance & Market Surveillance Analyst

Wwshemi; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Kraken is hiring several Senior Compliance Associates to carry out day to day surveillance across our markets, investigate what that surveillance uncovers, and help us build the programme out as the business grows.

We seek candidates with 2+ years in trade surveillance or market abuse investigations within regulated firms, fluent English, and comfort with generative AI to speed up evidence gathering while keeping regulator-facing oversight. UK-based roles with ongoing growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• At least 2 years experience in trade surveillance, market abuse investigation or trading conduct inside a regulated firm, such as an exchange, broker-dealer, trading venue, bank or comparable regulated trading business.
• 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 what you found to a standard others can rely on.
• Clear, evidence-first written communication. Your case files and escalations will sometimes be read by auditors and regulators without you in the room to explain them.
• Comfort using generative AI and other automation tools to improve the speed and quality of investigative work, while maintaining the oversight that regulated casework requires.

Responsibilities

• Review and disposition surveillance alerts across our regulated markets, and record the reasoning behind each decision clearly enough that someone else can follow it.
• Carry out analytical reviews that begin with trade and order data rather than with a system-generated alert.
• Investigate escalated behaviour end to end: gather the data, reconstruct what happened, and write it up for presentation to senior compliance stakeholders.
• Assess referrals raised from across the business and externally, and take forward the ones that warrant it.
• Draft suspicious transaction and order reports and suspicious activity reports.
• Produce management information and regulatory reporting for the entities we cover.
• Contribute to surveillance platform and tooling work, including bringing new products and data sources into scope and testing that detection behaves as intended.
• Use AI and automation tools to speed up evidence-gathering and case reconstruction, with human judgement over the final call.

Skills

Trade surveillance

Market abuse investigation

Written communication

Generative AI

Data analysis

Tools

Scila

Nasdaq SMARTS

Eventus

NICE Actimize

Job description

Kraken is hiring several Senior Compliance Associates to carry out day to day surveillance across our markets, investigate what that surveillance uncovers, and help us build the programme out as the business grows.

We seek candidates with 2+ years in trade surveillance or market abuse investigations within regulated firms, fluent English, and comfort with generative AI to speed up evidence gathering while keeping regulator-facing oversight. UK-based roles with ongoing growth opportunities.