Remote Associate, Fraud Strategy & Analytics

Summary

Join Wealthsimple's Fraud team as a dynamic problem-solver to collaborate with seasoned engineers, product managers, and data scientists in creating seamless experiences for clients while minimizing losses due to fraud. You will have the opportunity to build data-driven business cases, partner with teams to bring ideas to market, create metrics & visualizations, share fraud trends, apply financial modelling, and develop grounded decision thresholds using ML based risk scores.

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 modelling to estimate the fraud loss impact of new feature launches
• Develop grounded decision thresholds using ML based risk scores

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