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Salary: USD 180,000 - 200,000 / annual
MoonPay is a high-growth fintech company 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 first-line risk and control framework across MoonPay's business activities. This is a foundational role for an experienced financial services controls leader to establish a robust, scalable control environment in a fast-evolving industry.
Key responsibilities include:
- Building and owning the first-line risk and control framework, including risk assessments, control standards, documentation, governance, issue management, and ongoing monitoring of control effectiveness
- Embedding effective controls into business processes by translating regulatory requirements, policies, identified risks, and supervisory expectations into practical, sustainable controls with clear ownership
- Establishing a robust control monitoring and testing program to identify weaknesses, assess impact, drive remediation, and provide clear reporting on control environment effectiveness
- Developing the control framework supporting fiduciary, custody, and other regulated financial services activities with appropriate governance, processes, controls, and monitoring
- Partnering across the three lines of defence with business leaders and independent Risk, Compliance, Legal, and Internal Audit teams to establish clear roles, effective challenge, timely remediation, and strong first-line ownership
- Building scalable procedures, governance, reporting, systems, and operating cadence to maintain a robust control environment as MoonPay evolves
The company emphasizes high standards, high velocity, and high accountability. AI is integrated into all roles, and you are expected to use it daily. You will thrive if outcomes excite you more than process, if impact motivates you more than titles, and if you want hard problems, real ownership, and teammates who love winning and building together.
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
