FreeThink Capital Inc. - Senior Data Scientist

Job Description

Job Description

Salary :

This opportunity is being shared by General Bank of Canada on behalf of FreeThink Capital Inc. We are thrilled to help connect talented candidates with amazing opportunities across the Wheaton Group of companies!

While this position is posted through General Bank of Canada's Applicant Tracking Software, employment for this position is directly throughFreeThinkCapital Inc. All aspects of the role and employment will be managed by theFreeThinkCapital Inc. team.

FreeThink CapitalEdmonton, AB

313-11523 100 Avenue NW,

Edmonton, Alberta, T5K 0J8

Investment & Research Associate

Who we are

FreeThink Capital (FTC) is an investment management firm based in Edmonton, Alberta, with $1.5 billion currently under management. At the same time, FTC serves as the quantitative and financial research team for the Wheaton Group a broader conglomerate of companies that notably includes a schedule I Bank (General Bank of Canada) and two insurance companies (First Canadian Insurance Corporation & Millennium Insurance Corporation), among others. In this capacity, FTC performs analysis, employs data science, and builds models across a variety of financial functions, including capital adequacy, strategic asset allocation, valuation / pricing and automated decision making.

This exciting new role is being added to build upon the nascent data science team already in place which has already driven innovation, business strategy evolution, and process systemization across the Wheaton Group. Most recently, our data science team has researched, tested, implemented and operationalized an automated loan adjudication model at General Bank of Canada.

The Opportunity

FreeThink Capital is looking for a permanent, fulltime Senior Data Scientist to join a team of exceptional professionals that come from some of the top hedge funds and schools in the world. FTC consists of a small, tightly knit team that values quantitative / analytical thinking, evidence-based decision making, intellectual curiosity and humility.

As an organization that sits at the nexus of a variety of financial institutions, working for FTC provides a healthy variety of financial work that is both stimulating and vital. We are looking for an individual who can identify, research, and implement opportunities for improvement using systematic, quantitative insights. The objective for this role is not to tweak at the margins, rather, to identify and tackle high-impact changes to core business strategy. Extending beyond the mechanical traditional data science skills, we are seeking an individual who can work directly with stakeholders to understand business problems / opportunities and develop game-changing, real-world solutions.

Position Responsibilities

• Developing the Generation 2 automated loan adjudicator, via

Refining the underlying predictive credit risk models, employing advanced modeling & ML techniques

Required Qualifications

Fundamentally, we want someone with sharp technical and analytical capabilities, but pairs it with common sense and a laser focus on business outcomes. More specifically,

Preferred Qualifications

Position Details

We invite you to apply directly through our Careers portal atgeneralbank.ca / careers. Please send any questions you may have . While we appreciate all applications, only candidates selected for further consideration will be contacted directly.