Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Kraken is hiring a senior sanctions operations compliance lead to review, escalate, and resolve sanctions risks across its global operations. The role handles complex sanctions reviews and investigations while improving operational speed and scalability through streamlined processes and appropriate automation.

Responsibilities

• Perform sanctions reviews in response to escalations generated across Kraken, from blockchain monitoring, name screening and transaction screening to anti-circumvention controls and account sign-up and maintenance rules
• Review name screening alerts and transaction screening alerts escalated to the Sanctions team, applying sound judgment to resolve them accurately and on time
• Review blockchain monitoring alerts for direct and indirect sanctions exposure
• Analyse Kraken accounts for potential sanctions circumvention risk
• Review account opening documentation escalated by Kraken's first line of defence (1LOD)
• Review large data sets to support proactive and ad-hoc risk analyses
• Communicate with Regional Compliance Officers and other Compliance teams, ensuring regional perspectives are reflected while maintaining sanctions programme integrity
• Coordinate with teammates to establish streamlined processes, using automation and AI-assisted tools where they make the work faster and better, with appropriate human oversight
• Prepare regulatory reports in response to investigations as needed
• Prepare and deliver presentations as needed

Skills

• 5+ years of experience in compliance, sanctions or financial crime compliance, including hands-on sanctions investigations, ideally gained within financial services such as banking, crypto or fintech
• Working knowledge of the major sanctions regimes: US OFAC, EU, UK and UN programmes
• Experience writing sanctions reviews or investigation narratives
• Strong analytical and writing skills, sound judgment, and a detail-oriented, problem-solving approach
• Knowledge of crypto, banking or payment processes, procedures and systems
• Experience working with case management systems such as Hummingbird, Zendesk or equivalent
• Hands-on experience using automation and AI tools, such as Claude or ChatGPT, to make the team faster and the work better
• Effective verbal and written communication, with the ability to convey complex issues and manage stakeholders across global and regional compliance partners
• Ability to collaborate effectively with colleagues across functions
• Ownership of your work product, and a record of delivering results in a fast-paced environment
• High degree of integrity, discretion and ability to handle confidential and sensitive information
• A bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
• ACAMS (CAMS) or ACSS sanctions certification
• Prior regulatory experience or blockchain analytics vendor experience, such as attributing sanctions risk
• Experience supporting regulatory exams, audits or enforcement-related inquiries

Benefits

• Fully remote

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