Desjardins is a Canadian financial cooperative serving individuals, businesses, and institutions through a broad range of banking and financial services. Its operations span retail and commercial banking, insurance, wealth management, investments, brokerage, and digital financial platforms, with a presence across Canada and in the United States. The organization brings together a large, multidisciplinary workforce supporting members and clients across the financial sector.
Administrative Assistant, Desjardins — Hybrid in Montréal
Support Desjardins managers with documents, meetings, budgets, and internal operations. This hybrid role in Montréal requires advanced French and intermediate English.
Description
- Prepare, format, update, produce, and linguistically review information documents.
- Handle internal administration, including sales tracking, dashboards, expense accounts, inventory, supplies, and performance reviews.
- Manage the manager’s calendar, calls, email, and correspondence, and follow up as needed.
- Arrange and attend meetings, including management committee sessions; take minutes and track follow-up actions.
- Coordinate logistics for team meetings, committees, assemblies, travel, and public relations activities.
- Help prepare the annual budget and monitor it throughout the year, analyzing and explaining variances.
- Provide administrative and secretarial support to a director or manager who reports to a vice-president.
- Provide administrative assistance to other members of the unit as needed.
- Work with a range of stakeholders, making independent decisions and completing tasks to meet administrative needs.
Requirements
- A trade school diploma in a related field.
- At least three years of relevant experience.
- Other combinations of relevant qualifications and experience may be considered.
- Advanced spoken and written French.
- Intermediate English proficiency.
- Ability to perform administrative and secretarial duties.
- Ability to coordinate, plan, and prioritize management activities.
- Effective communication skills and the ability to adapt one’s approach as needed.
- Action-oriented approach.
- Customer focus.
- Respect for differences.
- Ability to learn quickly.
- Planning and alignment skills.
- Situational adaptability.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and annual bonus.
- Four weeks of flexible vacation starting in the first year.
- Defined benefit pension plan offering predictable, stable retirement income.
- Group insurance, including telemedicine.
- Reimbursement for health and wellness expenses and telework equipment.