Senior SOX Auditor - Business Process Controls

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 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 Risk & Audit function operates as an Integrated Assurance organization, bringing together Internal Audit and Enterprise Risk Management under a unified risk oversight strategy. The function spans SOX Compliance, Enterprise Risk Management, and Internal Audit across multiple regulated entities and jurisdictions. The team partners with co-sourced providers, maintains direct reporting lines to the Global and Local Audit Committee Chairs, and is building a technology-forward assurance capability at the forefront of crypto and financial innovation. This role sits within Internal Audit and will lead the independent testing of business process SOX controls. You will assess whether controls over revenue, financial close, and treasury are designed and operating effectively, providing the assurance that the Audit Committee, external auditors, and regulators rely on. The opportunity You will lead Internal Audit’s business process SOX controls testing program, building the testing approach, workpapers, and institutional knowledge from the ground up. This is a hands-on role with real program ownership and you’ll be doing it at a crypto exchange — where revenue includes digital asset trading, staking, and custody fees, where treasury manages both fiat and crypto assets, and the financial reporting landscape is evolving in real time. If you want a SOX role where the accounting is interesting and the controls are consequential, this is it. Responsibilities span the following areas: SOX business process controls testing Lead the execution of independent controls testing across business process areas including revenue, financial close, and treasury.