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Wealthsimple, Canada's leading financial innovator serving 4+ million customers with $155B+ in assets under administration, is seeking an Associate in AML Analytics to join its Anti-Money Laundering team. The AML team detects and responds to money-laundering and terrorist-financing risks, working alongside compliance and operational experts to strengthen Wealthsimple's AML program and combat financial crime.
In this role, you will solve data problems in a fast-paced environment focused on shipping and iterating on new features. You'll deliver data-backed decisions about AML detection strategy, collaborating with product, technology, and compliance teams to create significant business impact.
Key responsibilities include:
- Creating and improving detection models to identify unusual transaction patterns and suspicious activities while minimizing false positives
- Extracting, transforming, and analyzing large datasets to identify patterns, trends, and anomalies related to financial crime
- Refining risk-scoring models to quantify AML risk associated with clients
- Developing dashboards to provide insights that enhance program effectiveness
- Sharing AML trends and performance metrics with AML leadership
Required qualifications:
- Strong data skills with applied experience in a risk function like AML or fraud
- Proficiency with SQL for quantitative analysis and synthesizing results into actionable proposals
- Experience using AI tools to work faster, with judgment to validate their output
- Ability to develop and communicate stories to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Capacity to internalize and weigh information to reach balanced decisions
- Intellectual curiosity and passion for the work
Preferred qualifications include experience in AML or compliance functions, data visualization tools (Preset, Superset, Tableau, Looker, PowerBI), and databases (Snowflake, Redshift, MySQL).
Wealthsimple offers top-tier health benefits, life insurance, employer-matched group savings, 20 vacation days plus 4 wellness days and unlimited sick/mental health days, 90 days annual work-from-anywhere flexibility, and employee resource groups. The company operates as a hybrid team with 1,500+ employees across North America, emphasizing diversity, inclusion, and accessibility throughout the hiring process.
