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About the role

  • AML Team Lead guiding analysts investigating fiat and cryptocurrency transactions at Wealthsimple, Canada’s leading financial innovator. Improving digital-asset financial crime controls and regulatory reporting.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop a team of AML analysts through coaching, regular 1:1s, feedback, and career conversations
  • Communicate team and company goals, help analysts manage workloads, and adapt to shifting priorities
  • Review and approve high-priority or complex investigations in accordance with internal AML policies and regulatory standards
  • Monitor team metrics such as case turnaround and QA scores, analyze trends, and address process or workflow gaps
  • Utilize and help train the team on blockchain analytics tools
  • Support analysts with escalation and technical troubleshooting
  • Act as a subject-matter expert in traditional fiat and/or cryptocurrency financial crime
  • Stay current on AML typologies, regulatory changes, and emerging risks
  • Propose and pilot enhancements to alerts, casework, and risk strategy for fiat and crypto activity
  • Provide proactive stakeholder updates, escalate issues, and follow through to resolution
  • Lead knowledge-sharing and calibration sessions, support ongoing training, and identify growth opportunities

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience in AML/CTF
  • 2+ years of hands-on crypto AML experience, such as at a crypto exchange, blockchain analytics provider, or fintech offering digital assets
  • 1–2+ years in a team leadership role, coaching or managing direct reports in an operational environment
  • Subject-matter expertise in AML controls, typologies, and compliance frameworks, including FATF and FINTRAC
  • Direct experience conducting investigations and preparing, filing, and reviewing Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs), Large Virtual Currency Transaction Reports (LVCTR), Electronic Funds Transfer Reports (EFTR), and other regulatory reports
  • Proven track record of meeting SLAs, overseeing QA, and driving process improvements
  • Proficiency with crypto on-chain analytics tools such as Chainalysis, TRM Labs, and Elliptic
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Certification in Chainalysis, TRM Labs, Elliptic, or financial crime designations such as CAMS, CFE, or CFCS is a nice-to-have
  • Experience at a regulated crypto exchange or blockchain analytics firm is a nice-to-have
  • Legally eligible to work in Canada

Benefits

  • Top-tier health benefits and life insurance
  • Long-term group savings with employer match, through Wealthsimple for Business
  • 20 vacation days
  • 4 wellness days
  • Unlimited sick and mental health days per year
  • Work outside Canada for up to 90 days per year
  • Employee resource groups, including Rainbow (2SLGBTQ), Women of WS, and Black at WS
  • Equity compensation for permanent employees
  • Hybrid team with collaboration across North America

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$89,600 - CA$112,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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