ACCOUNT MANAGER | Financial & Proservices

Our client is a specialist PR agency focusing on financial and professional services clients looking for an Account Manager. Highly regarded and well connected, they have an outstanding reputation for hitting the front pages for all the right reasons, in addition to being able to provide a unique level of business insight for all their clients.

The Role

This role would suit someone who is a strong writer with prior experience of financial PR (either agency, in-house or journalism) or with a financial/proservices background.  The role is content focused and would be to work across a diverse range of client business including: financial and proservices, human rights cases, emerging market syndicated loans, tax investigations into High Net Worth’s, product recalls, trends in the stock market, banking litigation, IPOs and emerging markets.

Responsibilities will include:

• Researching and writing, including articles, press releases, white papers, Q & As and other content
• Research for current clients and new business opportunities
• Pitching to the media
• Forging productive relationships with clients, press, stakeholders and investment analysts
• Handling key client social media accounts

Candidate specifications

• Minimum of two years’ professional experience built from PR, journalism, or from another professional services or financial services background
• Knowledge of UK financial services and/or professional services
• Excellent written and oral communications skills, as well as strong numeracy skills
• Experience of managing and mentoring more junior team members
• Ability to adapt quickly and provide solutions in a fast-moving environment
• The ability to work on your own initiative and also as a good team player
• Able to work with senior client contacts
• Strong news sense and creativity for developing media strategies

To learn more about this position, please send your details through to [email protected] or call: 0203 397 7543 and speak to either Anne Carter or Tanya Ferris.  Please quote CF0631 on all correspondence