Head of Business Risk & Controls

The role

Build and own the first-line risk and control framework for relevant MoonPay activities, including fiduciary, custody, and regulated financial services. Lead control monitoring, testing, issue management, and remediation, and work with Risk, Compliance, Legal, and Internal Audit.

What you will do

• Build and own the first-line risk and control framework, including risk and control assessments, control standards, documentation, governance, issue management, and ongoing monitoring.
• Embed controls into business processes and translate regulatory requirements, policies and supervisory expectations into practical controls with clear ownership.
• Establish a control monitoring and testing program, identify control weaknesses, assess impact, drive remediation and report on control effectiveness.
• Develop the control framework for fiduciary, custody and other regulated financial services activities.
• Partner across the three lines of defence with business leaders and independent Risk, Compliance, Legal and Internal Audit teams.
• Build procedures, governance, reporting, systems and operating cadence that scale as MoonPay grows.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant experience in US banking or regulated financial services
• Significant leadership experience in first-line risk, business controls, operational risk or a comparable control function
• Hands-on experience designing, implementing and improving first-line control frameworks
• Deep working knowledge of US banking regulation and supervisory expectations
• Meaningful experience supporting fiduciary, trust, custody, transaction services or closely related banking activities
• Strong understanding of the three lines of defence model
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders in a high-ambiguity, fast-scaling environment

Benefits

• Competitive salary package
• Equity package for all employees
• Pay-for-performance equity bonus
• Moonshot award: $250,000 equity grant for 20 employees a year
• Pension with employer contributions from day one
• Employee referral program: 10K in USDC
• Flexible time off
• Recharge period at end of year
• Birthday leave
• Enhanced parental leave
• Hybrid working schedule with commuter benefits
• Private healthcare benefits

Before you apply

• Salary is based on experience and location in the US
• The posting says women may hesitate without experience in every listed area, and encourages applying at about a 75% match

About the company

MoonPay builds infrastructure for moving value, including crypto, stablecoins and tokenized assets, with four offerings: fund, tokenize, trade and spend. It is licensed in the US and regulated across the UK, EU, Canada and Australia.