Senior Data Scientist, Finance & Market Risk

Department: Data & Engineering

Location: Remote (Canada)

Compensation: CA$151.2K – CA$189K • Offers Equity

Employment Type: FullTime

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Wealthsimple's mission is to help everyone achieve financial freedom – by making financial services simple, transparent, and low-cost. We're Canada's largest fintech, trusted by over 3 million clients with more than $100 billion in assets. We move fast, we own our work, and we care deeply about the people using our products. If that sounds like you, keep reading.

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About the team

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.

About the role

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.

What you'll do

• 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.

Skills you bring

• 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 working with financial ledger data, including understanding of accounting principles, transaction flows, and reconciliation processes to ensure data accuracy and integrity

• 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.

Why Wealthsimple?

🌸 Top-tier health benefits and life insurance

📈 Long-term group savings with employer match, through Wealthsimple for Business

🌴 20 vacation days, 4 wellness days, and unlimited sick and mental health days per year

✈️ 90 days away: work outside Canada for up to 90 days per year

👥 Employee resource groups, including Rainbow (2SLGBTQ), Women of WS, and Black at WS

🌎 We are a hybrid team with over 1,500 employees across North America. The people are one of the best parts of working here: you'll collaborate with incredibly talented, curious, and driven teammates who are deeply committed to doing great work.

ICYMI

Technology & Innovation at Wealthsimple: We move quickly and build thoughtfully. That means we're always looking for better ways to work — whether that's new tools, AI, or rethinking how we approach a problem. We don't expect you to have all the answers, but we do expect curiosity and a willingness to evolve alongside the products we're building.

Inclusion Statement: We're building products for a diverse world, and we need a diverse team to do it well. We strongly encourage applications from everyone, regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.

Accessibility Statement: We're committed to an accessible hiring experience. If you need any accommodations throughout the interview process, please let us know — we'll work with you to make sure you have what you need. We also welcome any feedback on how we can better accommodate candidates with accessibility needs.

AI in Hiring: We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of our hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our team but don't replace human judgment – all final hiring decisions are made by people. If you have questions about how your data is used, reach out to us.