Financial Writer at Nairametrics

Job Description

• To deliver a top-quality and highly relevant real-time financial news feed for our website with the aim of improving our natural search rankings and driving qualified traffic to our website.
• To write excellent articles in a timely fashion using original sourcing.
• To work quickly with minimal supervision, researching, writing and editing confidently on topics related to capital & money market issues.
• To produce a feed of news that reflects the global events impacting forex markets.
• To continually develop knowledge and understanding of the best-practice principles of SEO copy.
• To become an expert in a the wide-ranging consequences of financial and economic events.

Person Specification
Ability / Expertise:

Essential:

• A versatile financial news writer with a strong eye for detail even while producing speedy, timely articles.
• Excellent writing skills - demonstrating a dynamic and variable style, concerned with getting key messages across quickly and efficiently.
• A business-minded professional - confident, friendly and down to earth.
• A thoughtful and decisive individual, capable of owning and rationalising creative decisions but equally receptive to feedback.
• An organised but creative thinker, capable of writing to tight deadlines and challenging constraints.
• Well organised and efficient, with exceptional attention to detail.
• An expert in writing content around capital and money market.

Desirable:

• A passion for financial markets, and the political and economic factors that influence them.
• Experience or knowledge of how to rank highly within Google News.

Qualifications
Essential:

• Bachelors Degree is required, Journalism, and English majors preferred.