Senior Compliance Associate, Automation & Systems (Remote)

Kraken is hiring a Senior Compliance Associate for Automation and Systems, open to candidates in the UAE on a remote basis. The role sits in the Financial Intelligence Unit scale team, which supports AML transaction monitoring, blockchain monitoring and automation as the business grows into new products and regions.

Responsibilities

• Optimise transaction monitoring through rule testing, threshold tuning and new detection scenarios that reduce false positives
• Find and deliver automation and workflow improvements across financial intelligence processes
• Evaluate and introduce AI and LLM-enabled tools for alert triage, investigations and suspicious activity reporting
• Work with product, engineering and operations teams on vendor integrations and monitoring tooling
• Partner with compliance leadership to keep monitoring frameworks well governed

Requirements

• 5+ years in AML, financial crime compliance or financial intelligence operations
• 3+ years designing, testing and tuning transaction monitoring rules
• Experience with monitoring systems and case management tooling at a regulated financial institution
• Experience leading process optimisation or automation in a compliance programme
• Strong analytical skills and comfort working across product, engineering and data teams

Nice to Have

• Fintech, payments or crypto experience
• Familiarity with blockchain analytics tools
• CAMS or similar financial crime certification

How to Apply

Apply through the employer careers page: Senior Compliance Associate at Kraken