Senior Advisor, Legal and regulatory compliance

Desjardins; Lévis; Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Flexible vacation

Pension plan

Group insurance

Telework equipment reimbursement

Wellness reimbursement

Job summary

Desjardins in Lévis, Canada seeks a senior legal and regulatory compliance advisor to design and coordinate the compliance framework. You will lead complex initiatives, interact with stakeholders, and promote an ethics‑driven culture across the organization.

You will develop policies, monitor programs, and represent the unit in decisions, while advising internal clients on strategic regulatory efforts. This role emphasizes collaboration and governance in a large cooperative.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field is required.
• Minimum six years of relevant experience or equivalent combinations may be considered.
• Knowledge of French is required.
• Intermediate advanced proficiency in English due to duties and tools.
• Action oriented, customer focus, interpersonal savvy, nimble learning and strategic mindset are valued.
• Equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility are emphasized.

Responsibilities

• Lead specialized development projects and initiatives impacting the organization.
• Design, update, implement and monitor complex action plans and tools requiring regulatory knowledge.
• Advise clients and partners to plan, develop and monitor strategic projects.
• Identify, analyze and diagnose major issues and make recommendations to decision-making bodies.
• Develop and update policies, standards, models and programs to support strategic initiatives.
• Offer legal and regulatory compliance programs to internal employees to promote ethics and compliance.
• Represent the unit before decision-making bodies and external partners.

Skills

Interpersonal Savvy

Strategic mindset

Nimble learning

Customer focus

French

English

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Job description

As a senior legal and regulatory compliance advisor, you help design, institute and coordinate the compliance framework and enforce related rules. You help ensure that oversight measures such as officer and employee behaviours comply with the organization’s standards. You lead development projects and strategic initiatives that are complex and innovative. Your initiatives require extensive knowledge of your specialty area. You make recommendations on the planning and execution of operationally and conceptually complex projects and initiatives that require comprehensive analysis and understanding of the organization and line of business. Coordination is critical, so you frequently interact with stakeholders working in many other fields. Interpersonal savvy is therefore essential. You serve as specialist advisor and subject matter expert, as well as resource person and coach for decision‑making bodies.

More specifically, you will be required to:

• 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 requiring comprehensive knowledge of legal and regulatory compliance to balance business needs, requirements and best practices
• Advise your clients and partners to help them position, plan, develop, execute and monitor 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 your unit’s strategic projects and initiatives
• Offer legal and regulatory compliance programs to internal employees to promote our culture of ethics and compliance
• Represent your unit before decision‑making bodies
• Represent Desjardins’s position when making agreements with external partners and organizations

What we offer*

• 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

* Benefits apply based on eligibility criteria. #LI-Hybrid

What you bring to the table

• Bachelor's degree in a related field
• A minimum of six years of relevant experience. Please note that other combinations of qualifications and relevant experience may be considered
• Knowledge of French is required
• Intermediate advanced proficiency of English due to the nature of the duties or work tools or because the position involves interactions with English‑speaking partners, members and/or clients
• Action oriented, Customer Focus, Differences, Interpersonal Savvy, Nimble learning, Strategic mindset
• Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility

At Desjardins, we believe in equity, diversity and inclusion. We're committed to welcoming, respecting and valuing people for who they are as individuals, learning from their differences and embracing their uniqueness, and providing a positive workplace for all. At Desjardins, we have zero tolerance for discrimination of any kind. We believe our teams should reflect the diversity of the members, clients and communities we serve.

If there's something we can do to help make the recruitment process or the job you're applying for more accessible, let us know. We can provide accommodations at any stage in the recruitment process. Just ask!

Desjardins Group is the largest cooperative financial group in North America. We're the choice for over 52,000 employees and we're named one of Canada's top employers by Mediacorp and Forbes. We offer a full range of financial products and services and share our expertise in personal services, business services, wealth management, life and health insurance, and property and casualty insurance. Pursuing a career at Desjardins means being part of an organization that puts people first.