Senior compliance advisor designing legal and regulatory frameworks for Desjardins, North America’s largest cooperative financial group. Leading organization-wide initiatives, policies, and strategic compliance programs.
Responsibilities
Lead specialized development projects, initiatives and activities that significantly impact the entire organization
Design, update, implement and monitor complex action plans, programs, solutions and tools related to legal and regulatory compliance
Advise clients and partners on positioning, planning, development, execution and monitoring of strategic projects and initiatives
Identify, analyze and diagnose major issues and make recommendations to decision-making bodies
Develop and update policies, standards, models and programs to support strategic projects and initiatives
Offer legal and regulatory compliance programs to internal employees to promote the organization’s culture of ethics and compliance
Represent the unit before decision-making bodies
Represent Desjardins’s position when making agreements with external partners and organizations
Serve as specialist advisor, subject matter expert, resource person and coach for decision-making bodies
Requirements
Bachelor's degree in a related field
A minimum of six years of relevant experience
Other combinations of qualifications and relevant experience may be considered
Knowledge of French is required
Extensive knowledge of legal and regulatory compliance
Ability to conduct comprehensive analysis and understand the organization and line of business
Action oriented
Customer Focus
Differences
Interpersonal Savvy
Nimble learning
Strategic mindset
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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