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Would you like to further develop your career with our exponentially expanding Strategy, Risk & Transaction group? Are you up for the challenge to help the most sophisticated Canadian and international clients to solve their quantitative and modelling issues? 

What will your typical day look like?

In this role you will help financial services industry (FSI) clients face quantitative issues with informed confidence. Using your deep technical skills and leveraging our global network of experts, you’ll provide professional advice to our FSI clients in a wide range of situations. The result? Our clients will be better placed to take control and receive the best solutions to their complex challenges.

As a senior associate providing fraud analytics service to our clients, you will lead in the development and validation of kiting fraud detection models for large financial institutions, which includes providing expertise in guiding and analyzing detection capabilities in terms of models, rules, alert management, etc. You will also lead to assess and evaluate the end-to-end kiting detection process, ensuring its production readiness and providing timely support.

You will also be able to learn and work in other quantitative and analytical areas such as forecasting and stress testing, customer behavior modeling, and new innovations such as machine learning, natural language processing, large language models and artificial intelligence. 

About the team

Deloitte’s Strategy, Risk & Transaction practice delivers highly specialized advisory solutions for companies facing critical business events where significant value is at stake, in every phase of the economic cycle.

Our work is often high profile, high impact, and highly rewarding. If you’re looking for a challenge and an opportunity to grow your career alongside the best and brightest in the industry, you’ll find it in Financial Advisory at Deloitte. Broaden your skills. Broaden your reach. Broaden your career. It’s all possible at Deloitte.

Enough about us, let’s talk about you

You are someone with:
  

• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in capacity of development and validation of fraud detection models.
• Experience working with leading the development and validation of kiting fraud detection capabilities for financial institutions, including analyzing the detection capabilities in terms of models, rules, etc.
• Experience working with developing and tuning under natural language processing (NLP) and large language models (LLM) framework.
• Experience working on traditional regulatory (e.g. IFRS9, CCAR) credit and fraud risk models from machine learning and artificial intelligence modeling perspective.
• Ability to program in pertinent languages, such as Python, SAS, R, Excel VBA, SQL, etc.
• Proven ability in strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and comfortable meeting intensive deadlines.
• Proven ability in excellent written and verbal business communication skills.
• Solid academic background with a PhD or Master’s Degree in Mathematical Finance, Financial Engineering or other relevant post graduate degree.
• Having or working towards Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) or Financial Risk Manager (FRM) is an asset.
• Canadian travel required and occasional international travel. Candidates must be able to enter the USA to work on client assignments.

Total Rewards

The salary range for the Senior Associate position is $75,000 - $113,000 and $95,000 - $159,000 for the Manager position, and individuals may be eligible to participate in our bonus program. Deloitte is fair and competitive when it comes to the salaries of our people. We regularly benchmark across a variety of positions, industries, sectors, targets, and levels. Our approach is grounded on recognizing people's unique strengths and contributions and rewarding the value that they deliver.

Our Total Rewards Package extends well beyond traditional compensation and benefit programs and is designed to recognize employee contributions, encourage personal wellness, and support firm growth.  Along with a competitive base salary and variable pay opportunities, we offer a wide array of initiatives that differentiate us as a people-first organization. Some representative examples include: $4,000 per year for mental health support benefits, a $1,300 flexible benefit spending account, 38+ days off (including 10 firm-wide closures known as "Deloitte Days"), flexible work arrangements and a hybrid work structure.