Senior Associate, Wealthsimple

• 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

Desirable

• A typical week in this role would have you solving ambiguous problems in a fast-paced environment that prioritizes shipping and iterating new features for our clients
• Our Fraud team is staffed with seasoned engineers, product managers, and data scientists
• We need a dynamic problem-solver who can collaborate with these teams to deliver on business cases, real-time fraud defences, financial modelling, data visualization and ML decision thresholds
• Our team is at the forefront of every new feature launch, and you will get the opportunity to collaborate with product, technology, and risk while seeing your work create big impacts to the business
• Your strategies will mitigate millions of dollars of attempted fraud annually while protecting the financial security of over 3 million clients
• 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