Sr Data Scientist, Finance & Market Risk

Build something people love
Wealthsimple is on a mission to help everyone achieve financial freedom by reimagining what it means to manage your money. Using smart technology, we take financial services that are often confusing and expensive and make them transparent and low-cost for everyone. We’re the largest fintech company in Canada, with 3+ million users who trust us with more than $100 billion in assets. And we’re just getting started.

We’re looking for someone who thinks big, sweats the small stuff and keeps things simple. You’ll join a high-bar, fast-paced team where people are trusted to own their work, communicate openly, and ship things that improve our clients’ lives. Collaboration, humility, and an obsession over quality are how we get stuff done.

The Finance and Market Risk Data Science team is a dynamic group of data scientists and analytics developers who deliver high-quality financial metrics and advanced analytics that drive key decisions at Wealthsimple. We support financial planning, treasury operations, liquidity management, and brokerage risk assessment for products like margin trading and options.

Our team has created a solid foundation for data-driven financial decision-making. Now we're ready to scale these initiatives, optimizing financial resources and enhancing risk management as our product offerings grow increasingly sophisticated. As the Senior Data Scientist, Finance & Market Risk, you'll make a significant impact through advanced analytics that support both strategic financial planning and sophisticated risk management across our expanding brokerage services.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to::
• Apply advanced analytics techniques to solve complex business problems across finance and market risk domains.
• Develop and maintain the finance data mart, with a focus on optimizing data quality, accessibility, and efficiency.
• Create insightful dashboards to monitor financial KPIs, profitability metrics, and regulatory reporting requirements.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with finance, risk, and product teams to provide business intelligence support for financial reporting, product performance analysis, and forecasting.
• Productionize and make continuous improvements to Wealthsimple’s machine learning models, ensuring that models are well tested, documented and maintained.
• Build automation tools and pipelines to increase team efficiency and scalability.
• Design and execute product experiments to help improve Wealthsimple’s client experience.
• Translate analytical findings into actionable business solutions.
• Build and enhance data assets that support a variety of analytics tasks across the business.
• Believe that simple is better, Occam's razor is your friend.
• Take ownership and ship it; release incrementally and iteratively.
• Teach and learn from your teammates. We value making others successful

Requirements::
• Strong technical skills in coding (SQL & Python) and statistical methods.
• Strong understanding of data visualization principles and methodologies, including analytics engineering.
• Able to build and maintain multi-functional relationships with various teams across the business.
• Experience in building end-to-end productionized machine learning pipelines.
• Comfortable with software engineering best practices such as unit testing and version control.
• Results-driven: keeping things as simple as possible to achieve the product goals.
• Curiosity: willing to dive deep into product strategies and business context.
• Experience in complex experimental design (A/B tests, factorial design).
• Experience working in finance and risk management domain is a plus

Compensation & Equity
🤑 Base salary range: For this role, candidates located in Canada can expect a base salary range of CAD $151,200 - $189,000. Actual compensation is determined based on skills, experience, and role level. Exceptional candidates may be considered above the top of the range, and pay can increase quickly for those who make a big impact in the role.
🚀 Total compensation: In addition to base salary, this role includes equity compensation. We use clear job levels and market-based salary bands to ensure compensation is fair and consistent across the company.

Why Wealthsimple?
🌸 Top-tier health benefits and life insurance
📈 Long-term group savings with employer match using our Wealthsimple for Business platform
🌴 20 vacation days + 4 wellness days per year, and unlimited sick and mental health days
✈️ 90 days away program: Employees can work outside of Canada for up to 90 days per calendar year
👥 A wide variety of peer and company-led Employee Resources Groups (e.g., Rainbow, Women of Wealthsimple, Black @ WS)
🌎 We’re a remote first team with over 1,500 employees across North America - and one of the best things about working here is the people. You’ll be collaborating with incredibly talented, curious, and driven teammates who care deeply about doing great work.

Be a part of our Canadian success story and help shape the financial future of millions.

Read our Culture Manual and learn more about how we work.

Technology & Innovation at Wealthsimple
We believe the future belongs to those who innovate boldly. At Wealthsimple, every team member is expected to lean into new technologies, including AI, and tooling to rethink how we work, solve problems faster, and create even greater value. We're looking for people who are not just comfortable with change but energized by it. Our commitment is to build a company that evolves at the pace of the world around us, and we want you to help lead that future.

DEI Statement
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.

Accessibility Statement
Wealthsimple provides an accessible candidate experience. If you need any accommodations or adjustments throughout the interview process and beyond, please let us know, and we will work with you to provide the necessary support and make reasonable accommodations to facilitate your participation. We are continuously working to improve our accessibility practices and welcome any feedback or suggestions on how we can better accommodate candidates with accessibility needs.

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