Start date: May or June 2026, depending on the selected candidates’ availability.
The deadline to apply for the Parcours gestion des risques development program is March 20, 2026.
In 2025, Desjardins was ranked among🥇Canada’s Top 100 Employers, Canada’s Greenest Employers and Canada’s Top Employers for Young People.
2026 Parcours gestion des risques development program
A professional development program to match your ambitions!
💚 About Desjardins
Every day, Desjardins is exposed to many different types of risk, including financial, strategic, operational, reputational and emerging risk. The Risk Management Executive Division serves a strategic function, and its primary mission is to partner with Desjardins Group’s business and development sectors to identify, measure and manage risk. It also ensures that risk management at Desjardins is aligned with the organization’s risk appetite and business strategy.
2 separate paths!
1. Financial risk management
2. Non-financial risk management
👉 Your mandate
Your talent will be put to good use as you work with risk management professionals to contribute to your host team’s diverse and exciting projects. You’ll be working as a financial OR non-financial risk management analyst in a Parcours de découverte development program. When you’ve completed the program, you’ll have all the tools you need to pursue a promising career at Desjardins. As a candidate for the financial risk management program, you’ll help oversee, monitor, disclose and quantify financial risks. These include credit, market, counterparty, issuer, interest rate, liquidity and insurance risk. As a candidate for the non-financial risk management program, you’ll help identify, monitor and oversee non-financial risks. These include technology, information security, data, personal information protection, anti-money laundering, financial crime and reputation risk.
What you need to succeed?
Leadership and teamwork skills
The ability to build relationships and adapt to a changing work environment
Independence and intellectual curiosity
Excellent analytical skills
Effective communication skills The ability to summarize and synthesize information
Knowledge of French is required
What we offer*
Full-time permanent position, 35 hours a week
Salary: Based on internal scales in effect, plus competitive annual bonus
Benefits: 💰 Comprehensive insurance plan, defined benefit pension plan, reimbursement of health and wellness 🏋 and ergonomic equipment expenses, etc.
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What you bring to the table
Eligibility criteria
Social and academic involvement
Excellent academic record
Spring 2026 graduate from a bachelor’s or master’s program in a relevant field
Training related to the business sector
Knowledge of French required
Required documents:
Cover letter with your answers to the following two questions:
1. Briefly describe your educational background and career goals. (Max. 400 words)
2. How will Desjardins’s Parcours gestion des risques development program help advance your career and personal goals? Why do you want to take part? (Max. 300 words)
French-language résumé
Academic transcript
Best of luck!
Action oriented, Business insight, Complexity, Customer Focus, Differences, Nimble learningAt 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.
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Desjardins Montréal, Québec, CAN Office
1 Complexe Desjardins, , Montréal, QC , Canada, H2X
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