Remote Senior Crypto Risk & Strategy Analyst

Unchain Data; New York (NY); Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary package

Equity package

Private healthcare benefits

Hybrid working schedule

Job summary

MoonPay is seeking a Principal Risk Analyst to identify, measure, and mitigate risks in our crypto payments business. You’ll work with Product, Engineering, Compliance, Treasury, and Operations to enable fast growth with informed risk controls.

Experience in risk management within crypto or fintech is essential. The role focuses on counterparty risk, market risk, liquidity, and operations risk across our payments ecosystem.

Qualifications

• 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 in a regulated or high-growth environment.
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills. You are comfortable building dashboards and models from raw data.
• Crypto payments knowledge is essential.
• Understanding of cross-chain bridges, swaps, and smart contracts risk.

Responsibilities

• Review & challenge risk assessment across payment flows, including on-ramps, off-ramps, card funding, stablecoin settlement, and cross-border transfers.
• Assess counterparty risk across liquidity providers, exchanges, custodians, banking partners, and processors.
• Evaluate exposure from cross-chain bridges, DEX swaps, and smart contract interactions, including protocol risk and liquidity.
• Review risks related to crypto trading, price slippage, and hedging liquidity across venues.
• Collaborate with Treasury on market, liquidity, and FX risk, including hedging strategies.

Skills

Risk management

Counterparty risk

Quantitative analysis

Dashboards & data models

Crypto payments knowledge

Blockchain basics

Tools

Chainalysis

TRM

Elliptic

Job description

MoonPay is seeking a Principal Risk Analyst to identify, measure, and mitigate risks in our crypto payments business. You’ll work with Product, Engineering, Compliance, Treasury, and Operations to enable fast growth with informed risk controls.

Experience in risk management within crypto or fintech is essential. The role focuses on counterparty risk, market risk, liquidity, and operations risk across our payments ecosystem.