The Impact:
Your ability to quickly apply value-added editing skills has a direct correlation and is critical to S&P Global Ratings' mission to provide transparency and accountability to financial markets. The quality, timeliness, and accuracy of our articles are essential to our company's reputation as the foremost provider of market intelligence and analytical insight.
What’s in it for you:
- You will join a team committed to content excellence and career progression through continuous improvement.
- The work is highly varied, with a wide range of article types from news to features, and spanning industries, financial services, and sovereigns.
- You will also gain wide geographical exposure by working on assignments with analytical and editorial colleagues throughout the world.
- Your focus on digital content, including infographics, will position you at the forefront of next-generation publishing.
Responsibilities:
- Ensure articles are grammatically accurate, adhere to house style, and meet publishing standards.
- Apply 'digital-first' principles, through brevity and use of plain English.
- Highlight insights through refining key messages, topic sentences, headlines.
- Pay strong attention to detail and processes to ensure error-free articles under tight deadlines that comply with regulatory standards.
- Ensure all articles conform to global publishing standards in terms of format, style, and branding specifications.
- Conceptualize graphics for data visualization and infographics.
- Work independently and communicate effectively.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree holder, preferably in economics, finance, or journalism.
- Minimum two-to-three years' financial editing experience, preferably with a financial information provider or finance-related newsroom.
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
- Sound knowledge of terminology and concepts used in financial markets.
- Good interpersonal and decision-making skills.
- Ability to adapt in a fast-paced and pressured environment.
- Firm familiarity with Microsoft Office suite.
Preferred Qualifications:
- CFA Investment Foundations
- Poynter ACES Certificate of Editing
- Experience with Adobe Illustrator or InDesign