Chief Control Officer
MoonPay is a financial technology company that builds payments infrastructure for crypto.
Maintainer signals as of 8/14/2026
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About MoonPay
Moonpay is a financial technology company that enables web and mobile developers to let their users buy and sell cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies using conventional payment methods. The company focuses on creating a safe, simple, and transparent bridge between fiat currencies and cryptocurrencies.
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About the Role
You will build and own the first line risk and control framework across relevant business activities. You will translate regulatory requirements and identified risks into practical controls with clear ownership, establish monitoring and testing programs, identify weaknesses, drive remediation, and report on control effectiveness. You will develop controls for fiduciary, custody, and regulated financial services activities while partnering with business leaders and independent control functions. You will also establish the governance, procedures, systems, reporting, and operating cadence needed to scale the control environment.
Requirements
- 15+ years of relevant experience within US banking or regulated financial services
- Significant leadership experience in first line risk, business controls, operational risk, or a comparable control function
- Experience designing, implementing, and improving first line control frameworks
- Experience with risk assessments, control design, monitoring and testing, issue management, remediation, and governance
- Deep knowledge of US banking regulation and supervisory expectations
- Experience supporting fiduciary, trust, custody, transaction services, or related banking activities
- Understanding of the three lines of defence model
- Experience establishing first line ownership and partnering with Risk, Compliance, Legal, and Internal Audit
- Ability to operate in a high-ambiguity and fast-scaling environment
- Strong technical judgment and senior stakeholder influence
Responsibilities
- Build and own the first line risk and control framework
- Conduct risk and control assessments
- Define control standards and documentation
- Embed controls into business processes
- Establish control monitoring and testing programs
- Identify control weaknesses and assess their impact
- Drive remediation of control issues
- Develop controls for fiduciary and custody activities
- Partner across the three lines of defence
- Establish governance, reporting, systems, and operating cadence
Benefits
- Equity package
- Pay-for-performance equity bonus
- Moonshot award with a $250,000 equity grant for selected employees
- Pension with employer contributions from day one
- Employee referral reward of 10K in USDC
- Flexible time off
- Birthday leave
- Enhanced parental leave
- Hybrid working schedule with fully remote work available
- Commuter benefits
- Private healthcare benefits
- Wellhub wellness membership
- Unlimited enterprise access to AI tools
- Lunch credit on office days
- Home office setup allowance
- Remote working allowance
- Monthly product budget
- Zero-fee crypto transactions
- $1,000 annual training budget
- Regular remote company offsites
- Ireland Cycle to Work scheme
- UK EV salary sacrifice
