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Salary: USD 180,000 - 200,000 / annual
MoonPay is a fintech platform operating at the intersection of financial services and digital assets, serving 30M+ customers and 500+ ecosystem partners. The company is licensed in the US and regulated across the UK, EU, Canada, and Australia, offering fund, tokenize, trade, and spend capabilities for crypto, stablecoins, and tokenized assets.
You will build and lead a strong first-line risk and control framework across MoonPay's business, with particular focus on fiduciary, custody, and regulated financial services activities. This is a foundational role in a fast-evolving industry, reporting to senior leadership and working across the organization to establish a robust, scalable control environment.
Key responsibilities:
- Build and own the first-line risk and control framework, including risk assessments, control standards, documentation, governance, issue management, and ongoing monitoring of control effectiveness.
- Embed effective controls into business processes by translating regulatory requirements, policies, identified risks, and supervisory expectations into practical, sustainable controls with clear ownership.
- Establish a robust control monitoring and testing program to identify weaknesses, assess impact, drive remediation, and report on control environment effectiveness.
- Develop the control framework supporting fiduciary, custody, and other regulated financial services activities, ensuring appropriate governance, processes, controls, and monitoring.
- Partner across the three lines of defence with business leaders, Risk, Compliance, Legal, Internal Audit, and other control functions to establish clear roles, effective challenge, timely remediation, and strong first-line ownership.
- Build for scale and increasing complexity, establishing procedures, governance, reporting, systems, and operating cadence to maintain a robust control environment as the company evolves.
MoonPay emphasizes outcomes over process, impact over titles, and real ownership. AI is embedded as a default operating mode across all roles. The company was recognized as one of Forbes' America's Best Startup Employers 2026 and ranked 2nd in Crypto Services on Fortune's inaugural Crypto 100.
Requirements:
- 10+ years of relevant experience within US banking or regulated financial services, including significant leadership experience in first-line risk, business controls, operational risk, or comparable control function.
- Proven track record as a builder and operator with hands-on experience designing, implementing, and improving first-line control frameworks spanning risk assessments, control design, monitoring and testing, issue management, remediation, and governance.
- Deep working knowledge of US banking regulation and supervisory expectations, with meaningful experience supporting fiduciary, trust, custody, transaction services, or closely related banking activities.
- Strong understanding of the three lines of defence model and experience establishing effective first-line ownership while partnering with Risk, Compliance, Legal, Internal Audit, and senior business stakeholders.
- Comfort operating in high-ambiguity, fast-scaling environments, combining strong technical judgement with ability to influence senior stakeholders and personally drive development of robust control infrastructure from the ground up.
