Associate, Reconciliation - Crypto Operations

Job Description

Employment Type: Permanent Full Time

Position Overview

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, opaque and expensive and make them transparent and low-cost for everyone. We’re the largest fintech company in Canada, with over 4 million users who trust us with more than $70 billion in assets.

Our teams ship often and make an impact with groundbreaking ideas. We're looking for talented people who keep it simple and value collaboration and humility as we continue to create inclusive and high-performing teams where people can be inspired to do their best work.

About the Team

As an Associate, you will join our Crypto Operations team to help deliver frictionless, reliable, accurate, and timely client experiences across an expansive set of products & features. Our Crypto Operations team is a part of the Wealthsimple Brokerage Operations business unit that provides the back-end technology, operations, and platform that powers our key Wealthsimple products. It continues to expand to deliver a wider breadth of financial services to our clients and supports the broader organization in operationalizing key priorities. We are always striving to deliver best-in-class operations for the products we support.

In this role, you’ll play a vital part in shaping and refining the key processes that drive our Crypto product. From ideation to execution, you’ll lead impactful projects while working hand-in-hand with Crypto Ops management, team members, and cross-functional partners in Finance, Data & Reconciliation, Compliance, and Engineering. Your collaboration will ensure seamless operations and continuous improvement across the board.

Responsibilities

In this role, you'll have the opportunity to:

• Foster accountability and ensure accuracy by preparing reconciliations, investigating variances, and documenting their resolution.
• Take ownership of process excellence by identifying and initiating proactive improvements to our reconciliation workflows.
• Drive collaborative problem-solving with Finance, Data & Reconciliation teams to address deviations between expected outcomes and actual results.
• Champion impactful project outcomes by independently owning problem-solving for distinct Crypto Product Ops initiatives and engaging leadership and stakeholders to move solutions forward.
• Ensure seamless communication and alignment across internal stakeholders, external vendors, regulators, and auditors.
• Cultivate expertise and elevate team knowledge by becoming a subject matter expert and supporting associates, specialists, and partners to level up collectively.

Optimize our Ecosystem

• Find opportunities to strengthen our internal controls, reduce any weaknesses/risks, and help scale processes within our product operations team.
• Collaborate with external teams to ensure our key processes & controls are supporting our stakeholders and their deliverables.
• Work closely with our Compliance & Finance teams to ensure our processes, controls, and reporting are adhering to regulatory standards (i.e CIRO, OSC).

What you’ll bring

• Relevant work experience: 2+ years of demonstrated success in a fast-paced environment preferably in brokerage operations, Fintech, Crypto, Financial Institutions or other operations roles in related fields.
• Naturally Curious: Relentlessly pursuing to find the root cause of a problem, and willing to further expand their own knowledge & competencies.
• Proactive and Action-Oriented: Takes initiative without needing direction, demonstrating full ownership of their work. Identifies problems proactively and strives to deliver solutions that make each day more effective and impactful than the last.
• Organization and Planning: Plans, organizes, schedules, and budgets time in a productive manner, allowing for a focus on key priorities.
• Collaboration: (Implied by the job description's emphasis on teamwork)

Note: Salary and Location Type information were not provided in the original description.