Personal Finance Advisor

Job title: Personal Finance Advisor

Job description: Desjardins Group is the largest cooperative financial group in Canada, and one of the largest employers in the country. It offers a full range of financial products and services and is home to a wealth of expertise in property and casualty insurance, life and health insurance, wealth management, services for businesses of all sizes, securities brokerage, asset management, venture capital, and secure, leading-edge virtual access methods.

Job Level NV-06

As a personal finance advisor, you’re responsible for developing and maintaining lasting and trusting business relationships with members and clients, to ensure they’re satisfied.

Your role is to listen to members’ and clients’ needs, offer them advice that fits their financial situation and help them choose appropriate solutions to meet their financial goals. You work closely with a client base consisting mainly of individual members. Interpersonal savvy is therefore essential.

You drive results by recommending investments, loans and insurance products. You use your expertise to balance member/client satisfaction, business objectives, profitability and sound and prudent risk management.

You work with various partners and experts to design integrated strategies that meet the needs of members and clients.

General Information on the Position

Main responsabilities

Advise members and clients on the best strategies and work with them to identify expected results

Manage business relationships, assess member/client satisfaction and service quality, follow up and identify areas for improvement

Stay up-to-date on the financial services industry, market trends and best practices in your field

Participate in outreach activities and represent the caisse in the community

Other working condition

Number of job available: 1

Qualifications

College diploma in a related field

A minimum of 2 years of relevant experience

Please note that other combinations of qualifications and relevant experience may be considered. For example, experience in sales consulting or business development in any industry may be considered relevant experience.

For vacant positions available in Quebec, please note that knowledge of French is required

Specific knowledge

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

Strategy recommendation and analysis applications

Desjardins applications

Caisse intranet portal

Sales and client management reports

Insurance products (financing and savings)

Savings and investment products

Consumer and mortgage financing products

Convenience products and services

Youth products

Estate settlement

Desjardins Cross-sector skills Action oriented, Customer Focus, Differences, Nimble learning

Key competencies for the job Drive results, Interpersonal Savvy

Work Location 1020, rue Bouvier Bureau 510 5e étage Québec

Trade Union Non Syndiqué

Unposting Date 2021-05-27

Job Family Member/client sales and service (FG)

Company: Desjardins

Expected salary:

Location: Quebec City, QC

Job date: Sat, 15 May 2021 02:22:19 GMT