Personal Finance Advisor
Hybrid · Québec, Quebec, Canada
Job Summary
As a Personal Finance Advisor, you’ll develop and maintain lasting, trust-based relationships with Desjardins members and clients, listening to needs and offering tailored advice on investments, loans, and insurance to meet financial goals. You’ll manage business relationships, assess satisfaction and service quality, stay current on industry trends, participate in outreach activities, and represent the caisse in the community. Your role combines expertise in financial services with risk management and prudent practices to balance member goals, business objectives, profitability, and sound governance. You’ll collaborate with partners and experts to design integrated strategies for members and clients, leveraging knowledge of mutual funds, retirement planning, and a broad range of Desjardins products and services. The role requires a Bachelor’s degree, at least one year of relevant experience, a Mutual fund representative certificate, and fluent French, with the ability to navigate current financial, economic, political, and legislative contexts. The position is described as Hybrid with benefits including competitive salary and bonus, generous vacation, pension, insurance, telemedicine, and telework equipment, and applications are encouraged from eligible Desjardins members and communities.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a related field
- Minimum of one year of relevant experience
- Mutual fund representative certificate – Autorité des marchés financiers
- Knowledge of French is required
- Knowledge of current financial, economic, political and legislative events
- All products and services aimed at caisse members and those offered by Desjardins Business Centres, Desjardins components and distribution networks, and those offered by competitors
- Debt management
- Notions of compliance with legislation respecting the distribution of financial products and services
- Understanding of the philosophy and fundamentals of financial services cooperatives
- Policies, legislation and standards related to products and services offered by the caisse
- Desjardins business processes
- Service standards
- Techniques used to assess and monitor individual financing applications
- Action oriented, Customer Focus, Differences, Drive results, Interpersonal Savvy, Nimble learning
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