Associate, Fraud Strategy & Analytics

Summary

Join Wealthsimple's Fraud team and help us build a safer and more secure financial future for millions of clients. You will be responsible for developing data-driven fraud strategies, partnering with cross-functional teams, creating insightful visualizations, and applying financial modeling to mitigate fraud risks. This role requires strong data skills, experience in quantitative and qualitative analysis, and the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. You will work in a fast-paced environment, solving ambiguous problems and iterating on new features. Your work will directly impact the business by mitigating millions of dollars in attempted fraud annually. Wealthsimple offers a competitive salary, top-tier benefits, and a remote-first work environment.

Requirements

• Has strong data skills, with applied experience and demonstrated success in academic and/or professional settings
• Experience in structuring ambiguous problems, using data to conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis, and synthesizing results into actionable proposals
• Can develop and communicate stories to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Can internalize and weigh information to come to balanced decisions
• Is intellectually curious and passionate about their work

Responsibilities

• Build data-driven business cases around fraud strategies to manage the risk on new & existing products
• Partner with data science, product and engineering teams to bring your ideas to market
• Create metrics & visualizations to monitor account activity, applying judgment skills to uncover anomalous patterns
• Share fraud trends and performance with leadership
• Apply financial modeling to estimate the fraud loss impact of new feature launches
• Develop grounded decision thresholds using ML based risk scores

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with large datasets and languages like SQL, R, or Python
• Experience working with data visualization software such as Tableau, Looker, PowerBI, etc
• Experience working with databases like Snowflake, Redshift, MySQL

Benefits

• Competitive salary with top-tier health benefits and life insurance
• Retirement savings matching plan using Wealthsimple for Business
• 20 vacation days per year and unlimited sick and mental health days
• Up to $1,500 per year towards wellness and professional development budgets respectively
• 90 days away program: Employees can work internationally in eligible countries for up to 90 days per calendar year
• A wide variety of peer and company-led Employee Resource Groups (ie. Rainbow, Women of Wealthsimple, Black @ WS)
• Company-wide wellness days off scheduled throughout the year