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Sr. Compliance Associate - Market Surveillance
OtherRemote — United Kingdom, Ireland, Cyprus, Malta, Romania, Canada
Published on 2026-10-30
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About this role
Carry out market surveillance across regulated trading venues and investigate potential market abuse. The role includes alert review, evidence-based casework, reporting, and helping expand surveillance tooling and coverage as products and markets grow.
About the company
Kraken is a leading cryptocurrency exchange that provides a platform for buying, selling, and trading a diverse range of digital assets. The company focuses on compliance, security, and innovative financial solutions to serve both individual and institutional clients.
The team
Market Surveillance function within Compliance.
What you'll do
- Review and disposition market surveillance alerts, documenting decisions clearly.
- Conduct analytical reviews of trade and order data.
- Investigate escalated behaviour and present findings to senior compliance stakeholders.
- Assess internal and external referrals and progress relevant cases.
- Draft suspicious transaction and order reports and suspicious activity reports.
- Produce management information and regulatory reporting.
- Support surveillance tooling, new product and data-source coverage, and detection testing.
- Use AI and automation to support evidence gathering and case reconstruction.
What we're looking for
- At least 2 years of experience in trade surveillance, market abuse investigations, or trading conduct at a regulated firm.
- Working knowledge of market abuse typologies such as spoofing, layering, wash trading, insider dealing, front running, and ramping.
- Experience reviewing surveillance alerts and producing reliable written case records.
- Clear, evidence-first written communication.
- Comfort using generative AI and automation tools while maintaining appropriate oversight.
- Based in the UK, Ireland, Cyprus, Malta, Romania, or Canada; fluent in English.
Nice to have
- Exposure to crypto-asset markets.
- Experience with Scila, Nasdaq SMARTS, Eventus, or NICE Actimize.
- SQL or a similar query tool.
- Experience drafting suspicious transaction and order reports or suspicious activity reports.
- Electronic communications surveillance experience.