Risk Analyst Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• 5–10 years of risk management experience 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, including comfort building dashboards and models from raw data.
• Deep understanding of end-to-end crypto payments, including fiat-to-crypto and crypto-to-fiat flows, crypto swaps, stablecoin settlement, and merchant and card acquiring.
• Working knowledge of blockchain fundamentals, including consensus, finality, confirmations, reorgs, gas and fees, wallets, and key management.
• Understanding of cross-chain bridges and their trust and security models, including the history of bridge exploits.
• Understanding of swaps, DEXs and AMMs, liquidity pools, slippage, MEV, and aggregator routing.
• Knowledge of crypto hedging approaches, including spot, perpetuals, futures, options, and stablecoin basis risk.
• Familiarity with stablecoin mechanics, reserve and de-peg risk, smart contract risk, and audits.
• Experience with blockchain analytics tools such as Chainalysis, TRM, or Elliptic, and on-chain data exploration.
• Excellent judgment under uncertainty, including the ability to make decisions with incomplete information and explain the reasoning.
• Clear written and verbal communication, including the ability to translate technical risk into business impact for non-specialists.
• Collaborative approach, with the ability to say no or approve with conditions without becoming a blocker.

Nice To Haves

• A professional risk certification such as FRM, PRM, or CAMS, or a quantitative degree.
• Experience in DeFi or familiarity with writing or reading simple smart contract logic.
• Prior experience building a risk function at a scaling company.

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 infrastructure vendors.
• Evaluate exposure from cross-chain bridges, DEX swaps, and smart contract interactions, including protocol risk, liquidity depth, slippage, and settlement failure.
• Review and 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.
• Independently review new product proposals with Product and Engineering, identify risks and controls early, and recommend approval with or without conditions.
• Review business continuity testing and business impact analyses to assess operational resilience and preparedness for disruptions.
• Develop, maintain, and evolve the risk framework, including Risk Appetite Statements, Key Risk Indicators (KRIs), risk registers, limits, and escalation procedures.
• Review technology and information security risks across core systems, infrastructure, and third-party integrations.
• Prepare risk reporting for senior leadership, the board, auditors, and partners.
• Conduct third-party risk assessments and continuous monitoring for critical vendors, service providers, and partners.

Benefits

• Competitive salary package.
• Equity package and employee ownership.
• Pay-for-performance equity bonus.
• Moonshot award, including a $250,000 equity grant for each of 20 employees annually.
• Employer pension contributions from day one.
• Employee referral program with a 10K USDC reward.
• Flexible Time Off.
• Company-wide end-of-year Recharge Period.
• Birthday leave.
• Enhanced parental leave.
• Hybrid working schedule, with the option to work fully remotely or from a nearby Moonbase.
• Netherlands-only commuter benefits for public transportation.
• Private healthcare benefits.
• Wellhub wellness membership.
• Enterprise access to AI tools, including Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini.
• Lunch credit for days worked in the office.
• Home office setup allowance.
• Remote working allowance for fully remote employees.
• Monthly product budget and zero-fee crypto transactions.
• $1,000 annual training budget.
• High Potential Program with structured development, mentorship, and stretch opportunities.
• Regular remote company offsites, including in-person sessions and hackathons.
• Ireland-only Cycle to Work scheme.
• UK-only EV Salary Sacrifice scheme.