Chief Control Officer

MoonPay is a financial services infrastructure company that moves value globally through crypto, stablecoins, tokenized assets, and emerging payment rails. Serving 30M+ customers and 500+ ecosystem partners across multiple regulated markets, the company is scaling rapidly while maintaining strict compliance standards. They're hiring a Chief Control Officer to build and lead their first-line risk and control framework, reporting to the Executive Office from their New York headquarters.

What you'll do

• Build and own the first-line risk and control framework across MoonPay's relevant business activities, including risk assessments, control standards, documentation, governance, issue management, and ongoing effectiveness monitoring.

• Translate regulatory requirements and supervisory expectations into practical, sustainable controls embedded within business processes, with clear ownership and accountability structures.

• Establish a robust control monitoring and testing program that identifies weaknesses, assesses impact, drives remediation, and reports transparently on control environment effectiveness.

• Develop the control architecture specifically supporting fiduciary, custody, and regulated financial services activities, ensuring governance and processes are embedded throughout.

• Partner across the three lines of defence, working with business leaders and independent Risk, Compliance, Legal, and Internal Audit teams to establish clear roles, effective challenge, and strong first-line ownership.

• Build scalable procedures, governance, reporting systems, and operating cadences that maintain control robustness as the company grows in complexity.

What you'll bring

• 15+ years working in US banking or regulated financial services, with substantial leadership experience in first-line risk, business controls, operational risk, or equivalent control functions.

• Hands-on expertise designing, implementing, and improving first-line control frameworks across risk assessments, control design, monitoring, testing, issue management, and governance.

• Deep working knowledge of US banking regulation and supervisory expectations, with meaningful experience supporting fiduciary, trust, custody, or transaction services activities.

• Strong understanding of the three lines of defence model and demonstrated ability to establish effective first-line ownership while collaborating with Risk, Compliance, Legal, Internal Audit, and senior stakeholders.

• Comfort operating in high-ambiguity, fast-scaling environments with strong technical judgment and the ability to influence senior stakeholders and personally drive robust control infrastructure development.

What we offer

• Salary range: 330,000 to 400,000 USD based on experience and US location.

• Equity package: all employees hold ownership stakes in MoonPay.

• Hybrid work arrangement in New York.