Senior Advisor, General Finance and Accounting

Desjardins

Senior finance and accounting advisor at Desjardins managing financial accounts, reports, and audits. Leading strategic projects and providing expert advice to decision-making bodies.

Posted 5/22/2026full-timeMontréal • 🇨🇦 CanadaSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Help manage financial accounts in accordance with the organization’s objectives by producing reports; performing audits, inspections and financial simulations; analyzing risks, profits and losses
Help plan and review budget processes
Manage and control the organization’s accounting systems by gathering, processing and recording financial data
Assist with product and service pricing and financial engineering, financial market transactions, and tax law analysis (including payroll)
Lead development projects and strategic initiatives that are complex and innovative
Serve as subject matter specialist for practitioners and decision-making bodies
Advise clients and partners to help them position, plan, develop, execute and monitor strategic projects and initiatives
Develop and update policies, standards, models and programs to support the unit’s strategic projects and initiatives
Identify, analyze and diagnose major issues and make recommendations to decision-making bodies
Monitor the industry to understand and anticipate trends and make recommendations to develop best practices for the organization
Represent the unit before decision-making bodies
Represent Desjardins’s position when making agreements with external partners and organizations.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree in a related field
A minimum of six years of relevant experience
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

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

financial reportingauditingfinancial simulationsrisk analysisbudget planningaccounting systems managementfinancial engineeringtax law analysisstrategic project managementpolicy development

Soft Skills

leadershipadvisory skillsanalytical skillsproblem-solvingcommunicationclient relationsstrategic thinkingdecision-makingcollaborationtrend analysis

Certifications

Bachelor's degree