Account Director - Financial Services - Edelman Smithfield
London
Edelman – Financial Communications /
Full-Time /
Hybrid
Edelman Smithfield is Edelman UK’s financial communications & capital markets practice.
We provide corporate communications support to a wide range of blue-chip financial services firms, and have expertise in asset management, pensions, professional services, insurance and consumer finance, devising highly creative media engagement platforms that differentiate our clients from their peers.
We advise public and private companies on strategic and capital markets communications to position them within the financial community during normal-course business and transformative events (M&A, IPOs, Spinoffs, Bankruptcy, Investor Relations etc).
We are recruiting for a talented and experienced consultant to join our financial services communications team as an Account Director. This private capital focused communications role will entail working closely with both senior and junior colleagues to provide best-in-class communications advice and implementation to and for our clients. This role will have an emphasis on providing high quality content for our clients, so technical copywriting skill is essential. You will also be expected to contribute to and support our new business development programme.
Reporting in to a Director, the successful candidate will and will be a key player in helping to maintain and grow this division. The financial services team looks after clients covering the full spectrum of financial services sectors, with particular strength in asset management (we are the leading asset management agency in the UK) and pensions (an award-winning team).
The role does not currently include financial calendar work but rather focuses on reputation enhancing campaigns for clients within the financial sector.
Required Attributes:
- Financial services communications expertise, able to demonstrate a track record of advising blue chip financial institutions on strategic, corporate and crisis communications matters
- Experience of working with private equity firms / basic understanding of the asset class.
- Proven media relations experience and understanding of opportunities across business media.
- Excellent written, numerical and analytical skills and a firm understanding of economics and the dynamics which shape economies and investment decisions (e.g. monetary and fiscal policy, employment levels, supply-demand, inflation etc.)
- To ‘own’ client relationships with limited senior supervision
- A demonstrable interest in, and knowledge of, finance, business and current affairs
- An understanding of financial information and the ability to communicate financial data to a variety of audiences
- A strong networker and ambassador, both internally and externally. Continually seeking to broaden knowledge and contacts through networking across the City and beyond
- Enthusiastic team player
- An ability and desire to share knowledge with and mentor junior team members
- Hard working with meticulous attention to detail
Responsibilities include:
- Leading accounts, or working with other staff to support managing account teams
- Managing and building strong relationships with tier one and trade publications
- Copywriting (press releases, comments, op eds)
- Managing clients on a day-to-day basis
- Involvement in every aspect of creating and implementing innovative communications programmes
- Work on new business proposals and pitches
- Helping to market the team internally and externally
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Edelman is a global communications firm that partners with businesses and organizations to evolve, promote and protect their brands and reputations. Our 6,000 people in more than 60 offices deliver communications strategies that give our clients the confidence to lead and act with certainty, earning the trust of their stakeholders. Our honors include the Cannes Lions Grand Prix for PR; Advertising Age’s 2019 A-List; the Holmes Report’s 2018 Global Digital Agency of the Year; and, five times, Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work. Since our founding in 1952, we have remained an independent, family-run business. Edelman owns specialty companies Edelman Data & Intelligence (DxI) and United Entertainment Group (entertainment, sports, lifestyle).
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