# Principal Risk Analyst

As a Principal Risk Analyst, you'll identify, measure, and mitigate the risks that come with operating a crypto payments business, including counterparty exposure, liquidity and market risk, and the technical risks unique to blockchain rails. You'll work with Product, Engineering, Compliance, Treasury, and Operations to make sure we can grow quickly without taking risks we don't understand. What You'll Do Review & challenge risk assessment across our 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 infrastructure vendors. Evaluate exposure from cross-chain bridges, DEX swaps, and smart contract interactions, including protocol risk, liquidity depth, slippage, and settlement failure. Review & challenge risks related to crypto trading, including price slippage, execution latency, and hedging liquidity across venues. Work with Treasury on market, liquidity, and FX risk, including hedging strategy, inventory and float management, and stablecoin de-peg scenarios. Provide an

- **Id**: 3872250
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/moonpay-principal-risk-analyst>
- **Role**: Finance
- **Role family**: Finance
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: New York, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T13:51:09Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T05:43:48Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3976
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cryptocurrencies, Crypto Payments, Crypto Wallets

## Company

- **Id**: 2725
- **Name**: MoonPay
- **Domain**: moonpay.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/moonpay>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 95
- **Open postings**: 3
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 64
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Technologies

- **Chainalysis** — Optional: no
- **MEV** — Optional: no
- **Smart Contracts** — Optional: no
- **DeFi** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T14:57:16Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Filed H-1B visas in the last two years; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 64
- **Reasons**: conf:0, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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