Job Description

Role Description

As an English to French Translator/Reviser, you help promote the organization’s projects, policies, and programs by designing, developing, and translating communications and sharing them within Desjardins Group and with its members and clients. You advise and assist clients and partners on important translation and language services matters. You recommend solutions to improve or optimize standards, policies, and programs. Your projects and initiatives require extensive knowledge of your line of work. You frequently interact with stakeholders working in other fields. Interpersonal savvy is therefore essential.

You translate a wide variety of internal and external documents from English to French, including:

• Marketing materials
• Contracts
• Correspondence
• Business requirements
• Training materials
• Internal communications

Daily work will include a considerable amount of editing and proof-reading. Daily work may also include post-editing, writing, inter-revision, and providing guidance to internal clients. More specifically, you will be required to:

• Translate, edit, and proof-read the organization's documents, including many strategic documents that have a significant impact on the Desjardins brand and image.
• Complete work as assigned by project manager(s) in line with productivity and quality targets.
• Use suitable terminology for the financial services and insurance sector.
• Assure the quality of work done by internal colleagues and external suppliers.
• Occasionally support and advise clients.
• Post-edit, edit, and proofread documents.
• Carry out French terminology and linguistic research to ensure linguistic consistency across the organization.
• Help develop the terminological lexicon and style guide used by the Linguistics team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Translation or in a related field
• A minimum of four years of relevant experience
• Knowledge of French is required
• Other combinations of qualifications and relevant experience may be considered

Requirements

• Action oriented
• Ambiguity
• Business insight
• Customer Focus
• Decision quality
• Differences
• Ensures accountability
• Interpersonal Savvy
• Nimble learning

Benefits

• 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

Company Description

At Desjardins, we believe in equity, diversity, and inclusion. We're committed to welcoming, respecting, and valuing people for who they are as individuals, learning from their differences, embracing their uniqueness, and providing a positive workplace for all. At Desjardins, we have zero tolerance for discrimination of any kind. We believe our teams should reflect the diversity of the members, clients, and communities we serve.

If there's something we can do to help make the recruitment process or the job you're applying for more accessible, let us know. We can provide accommodations at any stage in the recruitment process. Just ask!

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