Manager, Quantitative Market Risk

BUILD SOMETHING PEOPLE LOVE

Wealthsimple is Canada’s leading financial innovator. The company offers a full suite of simple, sophisticated financial products across managed investing, do-it-yourself trading, cryptocurrency, tax filing, spending and saving. Wealthsimple currently serves more than 4 million Canadians and holds over $155 billion in assets under administration. The company was founded in 2014 by a team of financial experts and technology entrepreneurs, and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

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ABOUT THE TEAM

Operations is the team that makes everything run. Within Operations, the Credit Risk team owns the models, frameworks, and day-to-day execution that keep Wealthsimple's brokerage business running soundly — across margin, delinquency, and dynamic risk reporting. We're a high-ownership team that works closely with Product, Finance, and the business to close gaps, reduce friction, and build for scale. If you take risk seriously and want your work to have a direct impact on how millions of Canadians experience their finances, you'll feel at home here.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We manage billions of dollars on behalf of millions of Canadians, and doing that well means having people who understand not just what a model says — but whether it's saying something meaningful. This is a risk quant role in the true sense: you'll own the development, maintenance, and methodology of the models our teams depend on to make consequential decisions every day. You'll work across margin, stress testing, and capital impact modelling in a CIRO-regulated environment, and you'll be the person who knows when something is off and can fix it.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Own the development, testing, and ongoing maintenance of quantitative risk models, including VaR, SV...