Senior Advisor, Personal
- Montréal, QC, Canada
Full-time
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- English
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Original job description
As a senior personal advisor, you help serve, prospect for, solicit, and develop and maintain business relationships with members and clients. You provide service tailored to client needs in accordance with current strategies and practices. You lead clients and practitioners on sales and service development projects, initiatives and activities that significantly impact multiple business sectors. You take a strategic mindset to boost the organization’s development and profitability while retaining clients and stakeholders and ensuring their satisfaction. You draw on your networking skills and interpersonal savvy to develop and maintain business partnerships with important clients who have complex, diverse needs. Your complex, strategic initiatives require extensive knowledge of sales and service. You analyze highly complex problems and develop and implement personalized solutions tailored to client needs. You serve as specialist and resource person for your unit, members and clients and represent your unit before decision-making bodies. You help represent Desjardins and enter the organization into important agreements with clients. More specifically, you will be required to :
- Evaluate and act on business and partnership opportunities to boost the organization’s development and profitability
- Advise members, clients and stakeholders to help them position, plan, develop, execute and monitor strategic initiatives
- See to member, client and stakeholder development, retention and satisfaction. Develop retention tactics and strategies
- Monitor the industry to understand and anticipate trends in your specialty area and make recommendations.
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
* Benefits apply based on eligibility criteria
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
- 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
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, 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!
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Job Family
Member/client sales and service (FG)Unposting Date
2026-11-26More about this job
Responsibilities
The senior personal advisor at Federation Caisses Desjardins will serve and advise members and clients on strategic financial initiatives. They will identify business opportunities, build partner relationships and work to keep clients satisfied.
Requirements
Federation Caisses Desjardins needs a candidate with a bachelor's degree in a related field and at least six years of relevant experience. Fluent French is required, along with advanced English.
Skills
- Business development
- Sales strategy
- Strategic planning
- Financial advisory
- Partnership development
- Client retention
- Problem solving
- Stakeholder management
- Industry trend analysis
- Negotiation
- Networking
- Bilingual communication in French and English
- Solution design
Benefits
- Four weeks of flexible vacation
- Defined benefit pension plan
- Group insurance including telemedicine
- Reimbursement of health and wellness expenses
Categories
- Finance & Accounting
- Customer Service & Support
- Sales
Keywords
- personal advisor
- senior advisor
- personal financial advisor
- member services
- sales
- business development
- financial advisory
- retention strategy
- strategic planning
- partnership development
- wealth management
- banking
- cooperative financial services
- bilingual French English
- market trends analysis
- Desjardins
Seniority
Senior
Perks
- Generous paid time off
- Flexible hours
- Retirement plan
- Wellness program
Languages
- French
- English