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About the role

  • Senior Compliance Associate optimizing AML transaction monitoring and FIU automation. Supporting Kraken’s global crypto infrastructure across products, jurisdictions, and transaction volumes.

Responsibilities

  • Lead transaction monitoring optimization, including rule testing, threshold tuning, and new monitoring scenario design and rollout
  • Identify and drive automation and workflow improvements across FIU processes
  • Evaluate and implement LLM and AI-enabled tools for alert triage, investigations, SAR filing, and FIU operations
  • Partner with Product, Engineering, and Operations on vendor integrations, monitoring infrastructure, and FIU tooling
  • Collaborate with Compliance leadership, including RCOs and MLROs, to maintain governed transaction monitoring frameworks
  • Design processes and monitoring strategies supporting expansion into new products, regions, and transaction volumes
  • Support AML transaction monitoring and blockchain monitoring while reducing false positives and maintaining oversight

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in AML, financial crime compliance, or FIU operations
  • Deep knowledge of transaction monitoring frameworks, suspicious activity detection, and BSA/AML regulatory expectations
  • 3+ years of experience designing, testing, and tuning transaction monitoring rules
  • 3+ years of experience with transaction monitoring systems and compliance tooling
  • Experience in a regulated financial institution, preferably licensed in the EU, UK, and/or United States
  • Experience driving compliance process optimization or automation initiatives
  • Experience working cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Data, or Operations teams
  • Strong analytical and data interpretation skills
  • Experience in fintech, payments, or crypto environments
  • Experience with AI, machine learning, or LLM-enabled compliance tools
  • Familiarity with blockchain analytics tools such as Chainalysis, TRM Labs, or Elliptic
  • Experience supporting vendor selection, implementation, or integration of regtech solutions
  • ACAMS, CAMS-Audit, CFCS, or similar certification is nice to have
  • Must select a city and country from the application options
  • Must disclose whether work sponsorship is needed

Benefits

  • Applications accepted on an ongoing basis unless a specific deadline is stated
  • Applicants may redact age, date of birth, and education attendance or graduation dates from resumes
  • Equal opportunity employer
  • Job-related skills or work-style assessments applied consistently and considered alongside experience and interviews
  • Kraken product dogfooding after joining

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

RemoteUnited Kingdom

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