About Akuna: Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm with a strong focus on collaboration, cutting-edge technology, data driven solutions, and automation. We specialize in providing liquidity as an options market-maker – meaning we are committed to providing competitive quotes that we are willing to both buy and sell. To do this successfully, we design and implement our own low latency technologies, trading strategies, and mathematical models. Our Founding Partners first conceptualized Akuna in their hometown of Sydney. They opened the firm’s first office in 2011 in the heart of the derivatives industry and the options capital of the world – Chicago. Today, Akuna is proud to operate from additional offices in Sydney, Shanghai, London, and Singapore. What you’ll do as a Junior Compliance Analyst at Akuna: Akuna is looking for a Junior Compliance Analyst to join its team. This person will assist and support the Compliance team in ensuring Akuna meets its regulatory obligations. Well qualified candidates will have a general understanding of options and futures products, equities, and cryptocurrency, possess strong analytical skills, have a strong attention to detail, and willingness to engage and effectively communicate with the Trading team. In this role, you will: Monitor surveillance systems daily to detect potential market manipulation, spoofing, wash trading, and other abusive trading practices Conduct daily reviews of trading activity, alert escalations, and flagged patterns Investigate suspicious trading behavior and prepare detailed investigative reports Support regulatory examinations and audit requests Document compliance procedures and maintain policy and procedure updates Manage form filings, securities registration/licensing, and SRO Exchange registration through the FINRA Web CRD portal (Form BD, U4, U5) Manage the Firm’s outside brokerage account process, including insider trading and anti-money laundering reviews Qualities th