Senior Financial Due Diligence Advisor

As a fund manager, Desjardins Capital partners with investors to create entrepreneurial wealth and contribute to collective prosperity. For over 50 years, Desjardins Capital has provided customized support to businesses to support the socio-economic development of Quebec, with over $3 billion in assets under management and a portfolio of nearly 700 partner companies. As a Senior Financial Due Diligence Advisor, you will play a key role in evaluating new investments and reinvestments in growing companies from diverse sectors. Through your financial analyses and modeling, you will help illuminate investment decisions, identify value creation levers, and support companies in their evolution. Your in-depth understanding of their financial performance and operations will enable you to make concrete observations and recommendations, and remain involved in post-transaction follow-up to support the implementation of top priorities. More specifically, you will be tasked with:

• Ensuring sound decision-making by ensuring that the analyzed financial information is accurate, relevant, and complete. Determine a procedure and methodology adapted to the particularities of each file and the amount of the investment, then examine the operations and controls of the company under study
• Design robust financial models to assess the performance, outlook, and key value levers of companies
• Analyze historical and interim results as well as the financial situation of companies. Assess the realism of their financial forecasts, test them, and adjust them as needed to support an informed investment decision
• Assess the capacity and practices of the company's financial team, then present clear and useful findings to the decision. Depending on the importance of the file, recommend concrete measures regarding points of concern, define post-investment follow-up priorities, and write the financial analysis section of the executive report
• Act as a partner-advisor to companies to improve the quality and presentation of their financial information as well as to evolve their accounting policies and practices
• Develop and maintain a network of contacts in the field, stay up-to-date on changes and trends in due diligence, then translate them into concrete improvements to current practices and policies. Share your knowledge with other employees to contribute to the development of collective expertise.
• Integrate artificial intelligence into analyses to increase their depth, efficiency, and the value of our expertise.

What we offer

• Competitive salary and annual bonus
• 4 weeks of flexible vacation after the first year
• Defined benefit pension plan that ensures a predictable and stable income throughout retirement
• Group insurance plan including telemedicine services
• Reimbursement of health, well-being, and telework equipment expenses
• Benefits are applicable based on eligibility criteria.

What you will bring

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance
• Minimum of eight years of relevant experience
• Please note that other combinations of education and relevant experience may be considered
• Knowledge of French required
• Advanced English proficiency, both spoken and written, due to the nature of the tasks, work tools, or interactions with anglophone partners, members, or clients
• Strong knowledge in company evaluation

Appreciate differences, Learn with agility, Communicate effectively, Be client-oriented, Be action-oriented, Show strategic thinking, Master interpersonal relationships, Organizational know-how

Equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility

At Desjardins, we believe in equity, diversity, and inclusion. We are committed to welcoming all people, considering and valuing them for who they are, enriching ourselves with their differences and uniqueness, and, above all, offering them a workplace where they will feel at home. For us, discrimination, in any form, is a zero-tolerance policy! We believe that our teams should reflect the diversity of our members, our clients, and the communities we serve.

If you need assistance to make the recruitment process or the position more accessible to you, please let us know. Adjustments will be made to those who request them at any stage of the recruitment process.

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Administration (GF)

Closing date 2026-09-18