Associate - Client Experience - Tax Support
Wealthsimple
Customer Service
Remote
Posted on Oct 29, 2024
Your career is an investment that grows over time!
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.
Wealthsimple takes financial services, like filing your tax return, that are often confusing, opaque and expensive, and makes them simple, transparent, and low-cost. We're the company behind some of Canada's leading digital financial products and our team is reimagining what it means to manage your money.
Smart, high-performing team members will challenge you to learn and grow every day. We value great work and great ideas — not ego. We're looking for talented people who love a fast-paced environment and want to ship often and make an impact with groundbreaking ideas.
In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to:
- Deliver an amazing client experience; no matter what
- Build your skills by gaining exposure to investment, tax, personal finance, and stock trading knowledge as you grow
- Engage directly with clients; Wealthsimple is for all Canadians, of any age, and you’ll get to experience this through supporting our clients as they use Wealthsimple products. This includes email support, and also participating in user and product research, with appropriate stakeholders, to drive solutions for our clients, and insights for our business
- Be accountable for meeting or exceeding daily targets, as you’ll be interacting with hundreds of clients each week through multiple channels in a live client support environment
- Be a key part in monitoring and improving client-facing issues in our products and operational processes
we're looking for people who:
- Possess a passion, curiosity, and energy for taxes, finance, & investing. You understand the ins and outs of filing your tax return and like to help others with theirs. More importantly - you know how to explain these concepts simply
- Want to make a difference. We are a small team effectively reshaping how people do their taxes and manage their financial future. We need people who 'get it' and want to play an integral part in helping us accomplish this mission and are persistent in getting the job done
- Live our do what’s right for each client value at your core
- Thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. You’re a trusted professional who can manage your own schedule and workload. It’s important you take pride in your work and have a sense of ownership
- Embrace technology and the role it plays in filing your taxes and improving financial services. Specifically, you have the flexibility to navigate multiple applications simultaneously to deliver effective and actionable solutions
- Demonstrate resilience, because our journey will have its fair share of challenges to overcome. We’re looking for people that love a challenge, always see the glass as half full, and want to create opportunities to provide a better client experience
Skills we're looking for:
- Brings experience in client-facing work, and can demonstrate a higher-level understanding of our Tax product, and Canadian tax returns
- Bilingual, in both English and French is considered a strong asset
- The Helper/Coach- You have great people skills and know-how to give and receive instructions & feedback, and you know the difference! You tailor your approach to each client, and you make those around you better
- Attention to Detail - You sweat the details, and can actively listen and troubleshoot when helping people with their taxes. You will have to explain how Canadian taxes work, and how to use our products, in a simple and accessible way
- Prioritization & problem-solving - You know how to break down complex problems and identify root causes. Knows how to balance what needs to be done with what’s possible to do. Understands the scope of an issue and its priority
- Communication - You’re an excellent writer, meaning you are clear and concise. You’re able to convey complex ideas or instructions succinctly and with great precision. Punctuation matters to you!
- Action orientation -A clear bias for action and the ability to act without being told what to do, takes full ownership over work and seeks help and input when needed
- Collaboration -Excellent interpersonal skills and an ability to work cross-functionally with a wide range of stakeholders
Why Wealthsimple?
🤑 Competitive salary
📈 Retirement savings matching plan using Wealthsimple Work
🌴 Generous PTO offerings
🌎 A wide variety of peer and company-led Employee Resource Groups (ie. Rainbow, Women of Wealthsimple, Black @ WS)
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!
DEI Statement
At Wealthsimple, we are building products for a diverse world and we need a diverse team to do that successfully. We strongly encourage applications from everyone regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.
Accessibility Statement
Wealthsimple provides an accessible candidate experience. If you need any accommodations or adjustments throughout the interview process and beyond, please let us know, and we will work with you to provide the necessary support and make reasonable accommodations to facilitate your participation. We are continuously working to improve our accessibility practices and welcome any feedback or suggestions on how we can better accommodate candidates with accessibility needs.