Senior legal affairs advisor protecting Desjardins’ legal interests and ensuring regulatory compliance. Leading complex litigation, governance, policy and strategic initiatives.
About the role
- Desjardins legal compliance advisor designing and monitoring regulatory programs. Advising stakeholders and improving ethics, standards, policies, and compliance action plans.
Responsibilities
- Design, update, implement and monitor legal and regulatory compliance action plans, programs, solutions and tools to balance business needs, requirements and best practices
- Diagnose issues, challenges and needs to determine target outcomes
- Analyze information, carry out studies, and develop and propose recommendations to develop best practices for the organization
- Help train internal practitioners, raise awareness and communicate information about the culture of ethics and compliance
- Oversee business line activities
- Help represent internal and external partners and practitioners
- Represent the unit before committees, practitioners and organizational units
- Help design, institute and coordinate the compliance framework and enforce related rules
- Help ensure officer and employee behaviours comply with organizational standards
- Advise and assist clients and partners as part of intervention and development initiatives
- Recommend solutions to improve or optimize standards, policies and programs
- Prepare recommendations, solutions and action plans based on organizational objectives and priorities
- Solve complex problems using analytical skills and extensive knowledge of the line of business
- Frequently interact with stakeholders working in other fields
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a related field
- A minimum of four years of relevant experience
- Other combinations of qualifications and relevant experience may be considered
- Knowledge of French is required
- Action oriented
- Business insight
- Customer Focus
- Differences
- Interpersonal Savvy
- Nimble learning
Benefits
- Competitive salary and annual bonus
- 4 weeks of flexible vacation starting in the first year
- Defined benefit pension plan that provides predictable, stable income throughout retirement
- Group insurance including telemedicine
- Reimbursement of health and wellness expenses and telework equipment
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