Description:
Empire Life is looking to hire a Senior Translator to join our Linguistic Services team!
Why pursue this opportunity
- Deliver excellence - provide a personal, accurate, professional, and courteous service and resolution to our customers.
- The opportunity - collaborate with cross-functional teams and work on a variety of projects that will keep you engaged and continuously learning.
- The environment - we understand the importance of work-life balance and strive to provide a supportive work environment that allows our employees to achieve both personal and professional goals.
What you’ll be working on
- Complete external and internal translations of a specialized nature (mainly from English to French) using a translation tool and proof documents in a timely manner, meeting all required deadlines
- Ensure project accountability, with limited need for revision of translated or proofread documents
- Provide revision of translated documents of a general and specialized nature
- Contribute to the maintenance of the internal database through terminological research
- Respond to various levels of inquiries from internal clients, external peers and third-party providers
- Confirm requisitions, distribute translation and proofing requests appropriately to the team, and maintain the department workflow application (Workfront) when necessary
- Work closely with various teams to translate and localize creative content
- Mentor, train and guide more junior members of the team on translation, localization, branding and client service questions and issues; serve as back-up to Manager, Linguistic Services when unavailable
What we’re looking for you to have
- Completion of a university degree in translation
- Completion of professional courses/designations an asset
- 5+ years work experience as a translator, preferably in the insurance/financial services industry
- Bilingualism (English/French) is mandatory
- Knowledge of insurance, investment, finance, accounting, legal, medical and information technology terminology
- Knowledge of word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software
- Knowledge of publishing and collaborative software (Adobe Acrobat, Adobe InCopy/InDesign)
- Knowledge of translation tools (knowledge of Trados an asset)
- Well-developed organizational skills
- Attention to detail/accuracy
- Ability to prioritize and balance multiple projects at once
- Ability to develop and maintain working relationships
- Well-developed analytical and decision-making skills
- Clear writing and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work under pressure
- English is required for communicating with English speaking customers, advisors, or employees across Canada.