Program Manager, Compliance

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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 $50 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 Security Assurance Team
The Security Assurance team plays a critical role in maintaining compliance over security frameworks and creating a space for risk mitigation and oversight. We want to ensure that Wealthsimple maintains a secure operational environment by implementing and monitoring controls designed to protect information, systems and infrastructure. Within the compliance management domain, we aim to ensure Wealthsimple meets the necessary requirements and obligations set forth by regulatory bodies, industry standards, contractual agreements and internal policies. Monitoring controls to ensure continuous compliance and control improvements.

In this role you’ll have the opportunity to:

• Lead and coordinate compliance efforts related to industry standard frameworks such as SOC 1 and SOC 2 (and other compliance frameworks as they arise) 
• Streamline both SOC 1 and SOC 2 programs while coordinating the successful and timely completion of these external audits simultaneously
• Serve as a primary point of contact for external auditors and internal control owners to facilitate the completion of the audit
• Expand the SOC 2 program by broadening the scope beyond the Security Trust Service Criteria
• Facilitate cross functional team coordination to ensure controls are operating effectively and help identify areas for improvement
• Draw meaningful outputs from the automated compliance management tool to efficiently address issues in our control environment and ensure continuous controls monitoring
• Support preparation of materials, presentations and other documentation as required for periodic management and audit committee meetings

Looking for someone who:

• Brings 3+ years of experience with formal audit, compliance or audit roles with a focus on SOC 1 and SOC 2 (such as working in an audit firm or being part of an internal compliance function)
• Maintains a relevant certification such as a CISA, CISM, CISSP 
• In-depth knowledge and experience working with frameworks such as SOC 1, SOC 2 and SOX ITGCs 
• Ability to work independently and handle multiple priorities
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and communicate both technical and non-technical audit requirements
• Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments
• Is naturally curious and creative, a self-starter and attentive to details
• Demonstrates exceptional organizational skills by maintaining detailed documentation and ensuring timely follow up on action items 

Why Wealthsimple?🤑 Competitive salary with top-tier health benefits and life insurance📈 Retirement savings matching plan using Wealthsimple Work🌴 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) 💖 Company-wide wellness days off scheduled throughout the year
We’re a remote-first team, with over 1,000 employees coast to coast in North America. Be a part of our Canadian success story and help shape the financial future of millions — join us!
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