Desjardins is a North American financial cooperative serving individuals, businesses, and communities across Canada. Its offerings span personal and business banking, credit cards, mortgages, loans, savings and investments, and auto and home insurance. The organization combines financial and insurance services with a cooperative model that gives members a role in decision-making, while emphasizing responsible investment, local economic support, community involvement, and youth development.
Administrative Assistant – Desjardins, Montréal (Hybrid)
Provide administrative and secretarial support to Desjardins managers, including meeting coordination, stakeholder communication and budget tracking. This full-time hybrid role in Montréal requires advanced written and spoken French.
Description
- Prepare and revise information documents, and handle related secretarial work.
- Manage internal administrative tasks such as sales tracking, dashboards, expenses, supplies and performance reviews.
- Maintain the manager’s calendar and handle calls, email and correspondence.
- Arrange and attend meetings, take minutes and track follow-up actions.
- Coordinate logistics for team meetings, committees, assemblies, travel and public relations activities.
- Help prepare the annual budget, monitor spending and analyze and explain variances.
- Provide administrative and secretarial support to a director or manager reporting to a vice-president.
- Assist other unit members with administrative tasks as needed.
- Coordinate, plan and prioritize the unit’s management activities.
- Work with stakeholders, making independent decisions and completing tasks to meet administrative needs.
Requirements
- Related trade school diploma.
- At least three years of relevant experience.
- Other combinations of qualifications and relevant experience may be considered.
- Advanced written and spoken French.
- Action oriented.
- Communicates effectively.
- Customer focused.
- Values differences.
- Interpersonally savvy.
- Learns nimbly.
- Plans and aligns.
- Adapts to situations.
- Technologically savvy.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and annual bonus.
- Four weeks of flexible vacation starting in the first year.
- Defined benefit pension plan providing predictable, stable retirement income.
- Group insurance, including telemedicine.
- Reimbursement for health and wellness expenses and telework equipment.