Wealthsimple
Toronto
201-500 employees
Powerful financial tools to help you grow and manage your money.
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Director, Fraud Analytics
Director, Fraud Analytics
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Wealthsimple is on a mission to help everyone achieve financial freedom, no matter who they are or how much they have. Using smart technology, Wealthsimple takes financial services that are often confusing, opaque and expensive and makes them simple, transparent, and low-cost. We're the company behind some of Canada's leading digital financial products, and are growing faster than ever.
Our team is reimagining what it means to manage your money. Smart, high-performing team members will challenge you to learn and grow every day. We value great work and great ideas. We're looking for talented people who love a fast-paced environment, and want to ship often and make an impact with groundbreaking ideas.
We’re a remote-first team and output is more important than face time, so where you choose to work is up to you — as long as you have internet access, you can work from anywhere in Canada. Be a part of our Canadian success story and help shape the financial future of millions — join us! Read our Culture Manual and learn more about how we work.
Fraud Analytics @ Wealthsimple
Fraud Analytics is a new domain within the engineering group at Wealthsimple. It’s our belief that there is an opportunity to fight fraud and financial crime with the pragmatic application of machine learning. While some manual work will always have to be done, we intend to keep that to a minimum. By unifying fraud countermeasures and fraud detection functions under one leader we aim to create quick feedback loops and data driven solutions.
We envision that the Fraud Analytics team will have people from diverse educational backgrounds: math, business operations, computer science and statistics with expertise in data science, fraud analytics, product management and software engineering.
We value impact on a day by day basis. We value better over perfect. We value today over tomorrow.
The Role
Clients of Wealthsimple trust us with money for their day to day spending, stock trading, retirement, their children's education, or their first home. This trust is paramount to the success of Wealthsimple. We are looking for a Director of Fraud Analytics who will lead the team in building machine learning and data driven solutions to protect their finances and maintain trust.
Wealthsimple is a fintech company which makes it an attractive target for fraud and other financial crimes. In this role you will build a team of teams around fraud detection and fraud countermeasures. You will provide technical mentorship to your team and act as a people lead, while reporting to the VP of Fraud and Risk.
Your core responsibilities are
- Build best-in-class Fraud Detection and Countermeasures teams
- Scale the team to effectively fight new and emerging threats
- Build real-time fraud monitoring and response capabilities
- Deploy new machine learning models, business rules and analytical solutions to prevent fraud while limiting customer friction
- Collaborate with other business units to ensure products are built cohesively with fraud risk management at the forefront across the platform.
In this role you will
- Love using data to make better decisions.
- Believe that simple is better, Occam's razor is your friend.
- Take ownership and ship it.
- You release incrementally and iteratively.
- Get the best out of the team by leveraging their diverse backgrounds.
- Teach and learn from your team members. We value making others successful.
We are looking for someone who
- A builder: you love building inclusive and diverse teams and you love building fraud detection frameworks
- Analytically strong and always looking for better ways to use data to improve fraud detection
- Has strong understanding of fundamental machine-learning algorithms: regression, decision trees and deep learning.
- Has worked in the fraud detection space for 5+ years.
- Able to balance the interests of our customers (frictionless & instant user experience) and the financial risk to Wealthsimple.
- Able to tailor our fraud fighting narrative to their audience using their excellent communication skills.
At Wealthsimple, we are building products for a diverse world and we need a diverse team to do that successfully. We strongly encourage applications from everyone regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status. Wealthsimple provides an accessible candidate experience. If you need any accommodations or adjustments throughout the interview process and beyond, please let us know.
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