Senior Associate, Fraud Strategy and Analytics

Summary

Join Wealthsimple's Fraud team and contribute to our mission of enabling safe growth while providing seamless client experiences. You will build data-driven business cases, partner with cross-functional teams, create insightful visualizations, and share fraud trends with leadership. This role requires strong data skills and experience in risk functions, SQL proficiency, and excellent communication abilities. You'll apply financial modeling, develop ML-based decision thresholds, and mitigate millions in potential fraud losses. Wealthsimple offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a remote-first work environment.

Requirements

• Has strong data skills with applied experience in a risk function like fraud or credit
• Experience using SQL to conduct quantitative analysis, and synthesizing results into actionable proposals
• Can develop and communicate stories to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Is able to 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 features launches
• Develop grounded decision thresholds using ML based risk scores

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with card processing systems like TSYS and i2c
• Experience working with data visualization softwares 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 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