Compliance Monitoring Officer, Payward Europe Solutions Ltd at Kraken

<h1><strong>Building the Future of Open Finance</strong><br /></h1><p style="min-height:1.5em">Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><br />Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.kraken.com/culture"><u>culture page</u></a> to understand what drives us and how we work.</p><h2><strong>The team</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Payward Europe Solutions Ltd (PESL), Payward Inc.’s EU based virtual asset service provider offering brokerage, transfer and custody services for EEA clients, is hiring a Compliance Monitoring Officer. The Compliance Monitoring Officer is responsible for executing the firm's Compliance and Monitoring Programme.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We are looking for a builder who continuously improves compliance programs to stay ahead of market growth and upcoming regulation. If you want to build the compliance infrastructure that defines what responsible crypto and regulated financial services look like in the EU, using the best technology available, at one of the most recognized names in the industry, during the most consequential regulatory moment in fintech history, this is the opportunity.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">This will involve reviewing processes, risks and controls, identifying control effectiveness, control gaps and subsequent remediation plans, and conducting compliance monitoring reviews from initiation to completion. You will also recommend control improvements that add value to PESL, provide advice to the business on the appropriateness and effectiveness of controls and the application of rules, standards, regulations, policies and procedures, and undertake other key compliance function tasks as required by management.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">The ideal candidate should be “systems thinker” who deploys technology solutions including AI with the goal of automating everything possible consistent with regulatory requirements to scale the program as a risk based, operationally effective, data driven machine. This is the opportunity to build a compliance function that looks nothing like what you've been running - one where the answer to volume growth is never "hire more analysts." Ou