About the role

  • Senior Data Scientist at Wealthsimple utilizing advanced analytics for finance and risk management. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to optimize financial resources and enhance decision-making.

Responsibilities

  • 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

Benefits

  • 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)

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$151,200 - CA$189,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

PythonSQL

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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