Wealthsimple

Senior Associate, Crypto Operations

Wealthsimple

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇨🇦 Canada

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

SQL

About the role

  • Help deliver frictionless, reliable, accurate, and timely client experiences across an expansive set of products & features.
  • Support in leading and continuously working to improve the key processes that help power the Crypto product.
  • Manage projects from ideation to completion.
  • Work collaboratively with Crypto Ops team members, Finance, Data & Reconciliation, Compliance, and Engineering teams.
  • Maintain oversight and accountability for the reconciliations review process and operational controls, ensuring accuracy and timely resolution of any discrepancies.
  • Partner with leadership and senior figures within the team to identify, design, and lead improvement initiatives, such as process automation, risk reduction, and scaling operations.
  • Own the problem-solving of distinct Crypto Operations projects and independently engage with leadership and stakeholders to drive outcomes.
  • Facilitate effective communication across multiple partners, from internal stakeholders to external vendors, regulators, and auditors.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of demonstrated success in a fast-paced environment, either in crypto operations, brokerage operations, fintech, startups, FI’s or other operations roles in related fields.
  • General interest or professional working experience in crypto and its various applications (e.g., Staking, Trading, Digital Asset Custody, Blockchain Reconciliation)
  • Proven experience with SQL, General Ledgers, and Reconciliations is a huge plus
  • Naturally Curious - Relentlessly pursuing to find the root cause of a problem, and willing to further expand their own knowledge & competencies.
  • Proactive & Action-Oriented - Acts without being told what to do. Takes full ownership of work and proactively identifies problems. Striving to make the next day better than the last.
  • Organization & Planning - Plans, organizes, schedules, and budgets time in a productive manner, allowing for a focus on key priorities. Knows the appropriate time to make the necessary trade-offs
  • Collaboration - Excellent interpersonal skills and experience in highly collaborative environments
  • Efficient - Ability to produce significant output with minimal wasted effort. Finds the path of least resistance to the problem definition, solution and execution
  • Communication - Speaks plainly and truthfully. Communicates complex ideas in a simple & easy-to-understand way for any audience (e.g. engineering, finance, operational teams, executive team)
  • Honesty/integrity - Doesn't cut corners. Does what is right, not what is politically expedient.
Benefits
  • Competitive salary with top-tier health benefits and life insurance
  • Retirement savings matching plan using Wealthsimple for Business
  • 20 vacation days per year and unlimited sick and mental health days
  • Up to $1,500 per year towards wellness and professional development budgets respectively
  • 90 days away program: Employees can work internationally in eligible countries for up to 90 days per calendar year
  • A wide variety of peer and company-led Employee Resource Groups (ie. Rainbow, Women of Wealthsimple, Black @ WS)
  • Allocated number of Wellness Days that can be scheduled over the course of the year!

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
SQLGeneral LedgersReconciliationsProcess automationRisk reductionBlockchain ReconciliationStakingTradingDigital Asset Custody
Soft skills
Naturally CuriousProactiveAction-OrientedOrganizationPlanningCollaborationEfficientCommunicationHonestyIntegrity