Team Lead, AML (Crypto)

As Team Lead, AML at Wealthsimple, you lead a team of AML analysts responsible for detecting, responding to, and mitigating money laundering and terrorist financing risks across fiat and cryptocurrency transactions. You'll drive proactive workflow improvements, navigate emerging AML typologies, and support your team's continuous learning while helping set the standard for digital asset financial crime controls in Canada.

What you'll do

• Lead and develop a team of AML analysts, supporting their growth through coaching, regular 1-on-1s, feedback, and career conversations.
• Set expectations and prioritization by communicating team and company goals, helping analysts manage their workload, and adapting to shifting priorities.
• Review and approve high-priority or complex investigations, ensuring adherence to internal AML policies and regulatory standards.
• Champion operational excellence by monitoring team metrics such as case turnaround and QA scores, analyzing trends, and acting on process or workflow gaps.
• Utilize and help train the team on blockchain analytics tools, and support analysts in escalation and technical troubleshooting.
• Act as a subject matter expert in financial crime, both traditional fiat and cryptocurrency, staying up to date on typologies, regulatory changes, and emerging risks.
• Drive improvement and innovation by proposing and piloting enhancements to alerts, casework, and overall risk strategy for fiat and crypto activity.
• Ensure clear communication with stakeholders by giving proactive updates, escalating issues, and following through to resolution.
• Foster a learning culture by leading regular knowledge-sharing or calibration sessions, supporting ongoing training, and spotlighting growth opportunities.

What you bring

• 4+ years of experience in AML/CTF, with 2+ years of hands-on crypto AML experience at a crypto exchange, blockchain analytics provider, or fintech offering digital assets.
• 1-2+ years in a team leadership role, coaching or managing direct reports in an operational environment.
• Subject matter expertise in AML controls, typologies, and compliance frameworks such as FATF and FINTRAC.
• Direct experience conducting investigations and preparing, filing, and reviewing Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs), Large Virtual Currency Transaction Reports (LVCTR), Electronic Funds Transfer Reports (EFTR), and other regulatory reports.
• Strong operational rigor with a proven track record of meeting SLAs, overseeing QA, and driving process improvements.
• Proficiency with crypto on-chain analytics tools such as Chainalysis, TRM Labs, or Elliptic.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• A hands-on leadership approach, strong at guiding others, giving feedback, and helping people stretch into new skills.
• Data-driven mindset, able to track and explain team performance and agile in addressing emerging bottlenecks.
• Comfort with ambiguity and change, proactively finding improvement opportunities and leading the team through new workflows, system rollouts, or policy changes.
• Resilience and resourcefulness, seeing challenges as chances to grow and acting as a calm anchor in fast-evolving or high-pressure situations.

Nice to have

• Certifications in Chainalysis, TRM Labs, Elliptic, or financial crime designations such as CAMS, CFE, or CFCS.
• Experience at a regulated crypto exchange or blockchain analytics firm.

What we offer

• 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
• Up to 90 days per year to work outside Canada
• Employee resource groups, including Rainbow (2SLGBTQ+), Women of WS, and Black at WS
• Hybrid work across North America

About Wealthsimple

Wealthsimple is Canada's leading financial innovator, offering managed investing, do-it-yourself trading, cryptocurrency, tax filing, spending and saving products. The company serves more than 4 million Canadians and holds over $155 billion in assets under administration, with over 1,500 employees across North America and headquarters in Toronto.