# Internal Audit Financial Crime & Conduct Manager

**Company:** [Kraken](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/kraken)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Finance & Accounting
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Internal Audit, Aml/Cft, Sanctions, Anti-Bribery And Corruption, Market Abuse, Market Surveillance, Risk Assessment, Control Testing, Data Analytics, Generative AI, Auditboard, Workiva, Cams, Cia, Cfe
**Posted:** 2026-08-12

> Leads global internal audits of financial crime, conduct, and market integrity controls across multiple jurisdictions. The role requires 8+ years in financial services audit or financial crime compliance, strong control-testing and stakeholder-management experience, and the ability to lead complex engagements.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

### 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 control design and operating effectiveness.
- Assess conduct and market integrity controls, including market abuse and surveillance, personal account dealing, conflicts of interest, and consumer protection.
- Shape and contribute to multi-year audit plans aligned to the organization’s financial crime and conduct risk profile across jurisdictions.
- Lead AI-enabled auditing using generative AI, agentic workflows, and data analytics across the audit lifecycle 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 causes, 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 continuous improvement of audit methodologies and frameworks.
- Ensure conformance with the IIA Global Internal Audit Standards and quality assurance requirements.
- Lead engagement teams, including staffing and coordinating co-sourced resources, to ensure quality and timely delivery.

### Stakeholder Engagement & Reporting
- Partner with Compliance, Legal, Risk, and Business stakeholders to communicate audit results and advise on control improvements while maintaining audit independence.
- Present findings and recommendations to senior management, the Audit Committee, and, where applicable, regulators.
- Support regulatory examinations and enforcement-related follow-up relevant to financial crime and conduct.
- Monitor evolving financial crime typologies, sanctions regimes, conduct expectations, and regulatory guidance across relevant jurisdictions.

## Requirements

- 8+ years of experience in internal audit, or a combination of audit and financial crimes compliance roles, within financial services.
- Direct experience assessing or auditing financial crime compliance programs, including AML/CFT frameworks.
- Multi-jurisdiction experience across more than one regulatory regime, ideally with globally distributed teams.
- Strong understanding of financial crime risks, including AML, sanctions, and anti-bribery and corruption.
- Understanding of conduct and market integrity risk, including market abuse, personal account dealing, and consumer protection.
- Proven experience executing audits end to end, including planning, fieldwork, and reporting.
- Ability to assess control design and operating effectiveness within complex organizations.
- Experience communicating findings and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
- Leadership experience managing audit workstreams and engagement teams.
- Ability to operate across multiple time zones and partner with globally distributed compliance, risk, and audit teams.
- Ability to use generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight while improving workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

## Nice to Haves

- CAMS, CIA, CFE, or equivalent certification.
- Familiarity with crypto, fintech, or digital asset financial crime typologies.
- Familiarity with AuditBoard or Workiva.

## Compensation & Benefits

- Payward may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of the hiring process.

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