Translator-reviser - Scotiabank, Montreal

Position summary

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture. As a key member of our Global Wealth Management Linguistic Services team, you will play a vital role in the overall success of our organization, particularly Scotia Global Asset Management. As a translator-reviser, you will champion a customer-focused culture, translate and adapt high-visibility client-facing financial documents and internal communications, and ensure that translated materials align with brand standards through rigorous quality assurance. You will actively contribute to large-scale projects, leveraging your expertise to drive impactful outcomes for our clients and the organization.

Day-to-day

In the role you will perform the following responsibilities:

• Champion a customer-focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
• Translate, adapt and transcreate high-visibility financial, investment and marketing content for French-speaking audiences, including client communications, thought-leadership pieces, digital content, videos, campaign material and internal communications.
• Ensure translated materials reflect the intended message, resonate with the target audience and remain aligned with brand voice, style and positioning.
• Provide thorough revision of translations completed by internal translators and external suppliers while ensuring consistency, accuracy and readability.
• Provide constructive feedback, coaching and guidance to colleagues and contribute to the continuous development of linguistic excellence across the team.
• Edit and enhance French-only content material to ensure clarity, consistency and adherence to corporate writing standards.
• Proofread, edit and approve final versions of translated and French-original documents for print, web, digital and internal platforms, etc.
• Manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment while maintaining exceptional quality standards.
• Maintain and leverage translation memories, terminology bases, AI-enabled translation tools and style guides.
• Conduct terminology and subject-matter research to support high-quality translations and revisions.
• Liaise with business partners and stakeholders to clarify source content, understand business objectives and ensure optimal communication outcomes.
• Ensure service commitments are consistently met or exceeded and contribute to ongoing process improvements.
• Collaborate closely with team members on large, complex or time-sensitive projects.
• Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
• Actively pursues effective and efficient operations of his/her respective areas, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational risk, regulatory compliance risk, AML/ATF risk and conduct risk.
• Champion a high-performance and inclusive work environment.

Qualifications

We would love to work with you if you have the following skills and experience:

• Minimum 10 years of experience in a corporate environment, preferably in financial services, wealth management, asset management.
• Minimum 2 years of revision experience in a corporate environment.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Translation.
• Exceptional French writing and editing skills, with demonstrated ability to adapt tone, style and messaging for diverse audiences.
• Demonstrated expertise in financial and investment translation and strong experience adapting marketing and promotional content.
• Excellent knowledge of Canadian English and Canadian/Québec French, including their cultural and stylistic nuances.
• Experience with CAT tools, AI-assisted translation technologies, terminology-management systems and project-management platforms.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively under tight deadlines.
• Flexibility and adaptability.
• OTTIAQ, ATIO or equivalent professional certification is an asset.
• Demonstrated experience translating videos, digital content and promotional material is an asset.
• Financial accreditation such as the Canadian Securities Course (CSC) is an asset.