Principal Risk Analyst
MoonPay Enterprise is the current MoonPay successor to Iron, providing stablecoin payment and on-chain banking infrastructure through one enterprise API platform.
Funding history
About MoonPay Enterprise
Iron was acquired by MoonPay in Q1 2025 and has since become MoonPay Enterprise. The current platform provides stablecoin-focused enterprise workflows including named virtual accounts and fiat collection, institutional stablecoin trading and FX/OTC conversion, stablecoin-to-fiat payouts through local banking rails, and fiat-backed stablecoin issuance with minting, redemption, compliance, onboarding, and distribution infrastructure. It serves wallets, payment service providers, fintechs, enterprises, marketplaces, and crypto platforms.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You'll identify, measure, and mitigate the risks of operating a crypto payments business, including counterparty, liquidity, market, and blockchain technical risks. You'll work with Product, Engineering, Compliance, Treasury, and Operations, independently review new product proposals, evolve the risk framework, and prepare risk reporting for leadership, the board, auditors, and partners.
Requirements
- 5-10 years in risk management at a payments company, fintech, exchange, bank, or crypto firm
- Hands-on experience with credit/counterparty, operational, or market risk
- Strong quantitative and analytical skills, building dashboards and models from raw data
- Deep understanding of end-to-end crypto payments
- Working knowledge of blockchain fundamentals
- Understanding of cross-chain bridges and their security models
- Understanding of swaps, DEXs, AMMs, liquidity pools, slippage, MEV
- Knowledge of crypto hedging approaches
- Familiarity with stablecoin mechanics, de-peg risk, and smart contract risk
- Experience with blockchain analytics tools such as Chainalysis, TRM, Elliptic
- Excellent judgment under uncertainty
- Clear written and verbal communication
Responsibilities
- Review and challenge risk assessments across payment flows including on-ramps, off-ramps, card and bank funding, stablecoin settlement, and cross-border transfers
- Assess and monitor counterparty risk across liquidity providers, exchanges, custodians, banking partners, payment processors, and blockchain vendors
- Evaluate exposure from cross-chain bridges, DEX swaps, and smart contract interactions
- Review and challenge risks related to crypto trading, including slippage, execution latency, and hedging liquidity
- Work with Treasury on market, liquidity, and FX risk, including hedging, float management, and stablecoin de-peg scenarios
- Provide independent review of new product proposals and recommend approval with or without conditions
- Review business continuity testing and business impact analyses
- Develop and maintain the risk framework, including Risk Appetite Statements, KRIs, risk registers, limits, and escalation procedures
- Review technology and information security risks across systems and third-party integrations
- Prepare risk reporting for senior leadership, the board, auditors, and partners
- Conduct third-party risk assessments and continuous vendor monitoring
Benefits
- Competitive salary package
- Equity package
- Pay-for-performance equity bonus
- Moonshot award equity grant
- Pension with employer contributions from day one
- Employee referral program
- Flexible Time Off
- Recharge Period company-wide time off
- Birthday leave
- Enhanced parental leave
- Hybrid working schedule or fully remote
- Commuter benefits (Netherlands only)
- Private healthcare benefits
- Wellhub wellness membership
- Enterprise access to AI tools
- Lunch credit
- Home office setup allowance
- Remote working allowance
- Monthly product budget and zero-fee crypto transactions
- $1,000 annual training budget
- High Potential Program
- Regular remote company offsites
- Cycle to Work scheme (Ireland only)
- EV Salary Sacrifice (UK only)
