Compliance Senior Lead - Sanctions Operations

📋 Description

• Perform sanctions reviews in response to escalations generated across Kraken, from blockchain
• Review name screening alerts and transaction screening alerts escalated to the Sanctions team
• 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

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in compliance, sanctions or financial crime compliance, including hands-on
• 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
• Knowledge of crypto, banking or payment processes, procedures and systems
• Experience working with case management systems such as Hummingbird, Zendesk or equivalent

🎁 Benefits

• ACAMS (CAMS) or ACSS sanctions certification
• Prior regulatory experience or blockchain analytics vendor experience, such as attributing
• Experience supporting regulatory exams, audits or enforcement-related inquiries