Compliance Program Manager

Summary

Join Wealthsimple's Regulatory team as a Program Manager to support AML Transformation. You will oversee AML enablement, infrastructure, and transformation, embedding within AML and risk teams to understand their vision and progress. Identify gaps in controls and coordinate remediation efforts. Collaborate with various teams to understand regulatory requirements and ensure coverage for new products and features. Prioritize and plan improvements and remediation. This role requires strong analytical, investigative, and communication skills, along with experience in program management. Wealthsimple offers competitive benefits, including health benefits, retirement savings matching, generous vacation time, wellness and professional development budgets, and a remote-first work environment.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience implementing and managing programs, projects, systems, or products
• Strong attention to detail and documentation skills
• Strong analytical, research, and investigative skills
• Ability to understand and distill complex content into a clear and concise narrative and communicate it with audiences at all levels
• Appropriately assess risk/reward relationships when making decisions
• Ability to take ownership and lead projects with a proactive (reactive, when appropriate) approach and able to independently drive initiatives to conclusions
• Ability to perform well in a high pressure, time-sensitive environment
• Effective leadership qualities and motivated self-starter

Responsibilities

• Oversee AML enablement, infrastructure, and transformation
• Embed within AML and risk teams to understand vision, roadmaps, and progress
• Identify gaps in controls and coordinate on remediation
• Work with product, design, engineering, and regulatory teams to understand regulatory requirements and infrastructure or data gaps for new interfaces, products, and services
• Ensure coverage as we build and improve on products and features
• Prioritize and plan for improvements and remediation where opportunities exist

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in AML, compliance, product, or operations
• Experience working in cross functional teams, especially between compliance, product, and developers
• Experience in implementing compliance software and tooling
• Knowledge of FINTRAC rules for securities dealers and money services businesses
• Fluency in French

Benefits

• Competitive salary with top-tier health benefits and life insurance
• Retirement savings matching plan using Wealthsimple Work
• 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
• Remote-first team