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Job description

As a Business/Financial Writer, you will create informative and engaging content to make complex concepts easy to understand in the finance and business space. Our ideal candidate must have worked with a business media platform.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Have an in-depth understanding of the financial industry to deliver confident writing at multiple levels.
• Create original content and enhance existing content while incorporating SEO best practices.
• Brainstorm, research, and contribute ideas for content that is of interest to the target audience.
• Experience conducting research and writing professionally about financial services topics.
• Well-versed in a wide range of financial products and accustomed to describing financial markets, products, and economic activity in clear, direct language.
• Ability to adjust tone and message to audiences and be mindful of things like flow, readability, and sentence variety.
• An understanding of search engine optimization best practices and WordPress.
• Resourceful, results-driven, highly collaborative with other writers and editors to complete projects.
• Ability to interact with a diverse group of senior stakeholders.
• Understanding grammar rules and how to construct clear sentences.
• Deep knowledge of major trends and understanding of the industry landscape.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with daily deadlines and quick turnaround times.
• Write stories about the economy, corporations and other topics.
• Gather background information through interviews and independent research.
• Experience writing succinct market research, preferably for a business audience.
• In order to write understandable articles, writers need to understand not only journalism, but accounting, finance, and the stock markets.

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Responsibilities and Duties.

• Analyze and capitalize various attributes and requirements of print and digital media to strengthen the editor’s position.
• Manage and produce news to present information with accuracy, flow, and within the time frame.
• Make sure that house style is adhered to (house style means the particular style conventions of a given publication, eg the publication’s tone and punctuation/grammar conventions).
• Design innovative and unique solutions to optimize routine news coverage.
• Manage and edit content to cater to readers’ requirements and provide detailed information for the same.
• Work within a creative environment to respond to various competing priorities.
• Prepare work schedule and deadlines and encourage team members to meet targets to facilitate timely publication.
• Provide training to news reporters on how to select news for existing readership and gain new readers.
• Evaluate all news for authenticity and check with sources to ensure the correctness of published articles to avoid conflicts.
• Collaborate with reporters, editors and photojournalists and anchors to facilitate efficient news coverage to strengthen the company’s position in the media market.
• Monitor all feeds from news bureaus and other agencies for editing and further publication.
• Excellent standard of grammar and spelling.
• An understanding of the law relating to publishing and journalism.
• Meticulous attention to detail, excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Interpersonal skills and IT skills.
• Search Engine Optimization best practices and WordPress