Internal Audit Financial Crime & Conduct Manager

BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE 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. Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page https://www.kraken.com/culture to understand what drives us and how we work. THE TEAM 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. Payward's Audit & Risk function operates as an Integrated Assurance organization, bringing together Internal Audit and Enterprise Risk Management under a unified risk oversight strategy. The function spans Internal Audit, SOX Compliance, and Enterprise Risk Management across multiple regulated entities and jurisdictions. Internal Audit partners with co-sourced providers, maintains direct reporting lines to the Global and Local Audit Committee Chairs, and is building a financial crime and conduct assurance capability at the forefront of crypto and financial innovation. THE OPPORTUNITY You'll partner with Internal Audit leadership to run the global financial crime and conduct audit program, evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of controls across AML/CFT, sanctions, anti-bribery and corruption, market integrity, and conduct risk. This is a global, multi-jurisdiction mandate that is entity and region agnostic, with an immediate focus on our overseas operations and the regulatory regimes that govern them. Financial crime compliance will be a primary focus, and the role will also focus on conduct and market integrity risk. This is a hands-on role with real ownership over scope, stakeholders, and outcomes - you'll play a central role in how the Internal Audit function assesses some of the highest-visibility risks our business carries. If you want financial crime audit work where the landscape is genuinely current and your work has a real impact on how the business protects itself, this is it. Responsibilities span the following areas: Financial crime & conduct audit leadership - Lead audits across financial crime compliance, including AML/CFT, sanctions, and anti-bribery and corruption, as well as conduct and market integrity risk, across multiple jurisdictions and regulatory regimes - Perform risk assessments to identify key areas of exposure and prioritize audit coverage. - Design and execute control testing across business and compliance processes, evaluating both design and operating effectiveness - Assess conduct and market integrity controls, including market abuse and surveillance, personal account dealing and conflicts of interest, and consumer protection - Shape and contribute to multi-year audit plans aligned to Payward’s financial crime and conduct risk profile across jurisdictions - Lead AI-enabled auditing - apply generative AI, agentic workflows, and data analytics across the audit lifecycle to expand testing coverage, sharpen risk targeting, and improve efficiency, while retaining human ownership of judgment and conclusions Engagement & issue management - Lead multiple audit engagements concurrently, managing planning, fieldwork, and reporting end-to-end. - Document audit findings, including control gaps and root cause, and draft clear, well-supported workpapers and reports - Track and validate remediation of identified issues, escalating delays or gaps to Internal Audit leadership - Contribute to the continuous improvement of audit methodologies and frameworks, and ensure conformance with the IIA Global Internal Audit Standards and the function's quality assurance requirements - Lead engagement teams, including staffing and coordinati…