CSG’s financial and professional services practice is seeking to hire a full-time junior content writer with 3 to 5 years of financial services expertise for its NYC office. We are looking for a talented, creative and conceptual thinker with a passion to dig deep to deliver outstanding work for our clients. The writer is responsible for creating strong, brand-appropriate content. Thinking like part PR account representative, part publisher and part journalist are at the core of this position, and will require an expertise in all things related to content development.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with the asset management, banking and payments, insurance and professional services teams, to determine the conceptual and copy direction of the content deliverables
- Develop and write compelling and impactful long- and short-form content (such as white papers, bylined articles, blog posts, brochure copy, video scripts, and more), based on information gathered through research and interviews with subject matter experts
- Write high-level messages, headlines and talking points for use in a variety of content formats
- Work with account strategists to ensure copy tone and style are consistent and on-point
- Stay on top of important industry themes and topics for various clients and commit to advancing your own personal growth and development
- Manage own workload and deadlines within the financial services practice, reporting to our content director
- Proof-read and edit agency communications to ensure accuracy
- Contribute to a culture of content innovation and teamwork
Qualifications: The ideal candidate will have at least 3 to 5 years of solid writing experience within the financial services industry and/or with a news media organization(s).
- Demonstrated ability to adhere to AP Style
- Strong conceptual thinking
- Proven editorial skills, an outstanding command of the English language and a “nose” for the story
- Experience in how to tell a story using words, images and/or audio, and an understanding of how to create content that draws and engages an audience
- Excellent verbal, communications and presentation skills
- Ability to multitask in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Experience collaborating with compliance and/or legal departments is a plus
- Experience writing in an SEC/FINRA/FDIC compliant manner is a plus
To apply, submit a current resume and cover letter to Dan Mahoney: dmahoney@csg-pr.com detailing your thoughts on what makes for great content and what you think is the single most important factor a writer should consider when developing content. Please also include your salary requirements. We will not review or respond to submissions that don’t adhere to the cover letter guidelines.
About CSG: Communications Strategy Group (CSG) is an award winning and rapidly growing team of financial and professional services experts providing strategic communications advice and tactical execution for its clients. We leverage our unique combination of industry expertise, carefully calibrated content marketing and deeply rooted influencer relationships to achieve our clients’ business objectives. The team is composed of the industry’s brightest communications professionals who are well versed in the challenges, opportunities, themes and trends within each of the company’s focus industries. Our clients range from challenger brands to more established brands such as Janus Capital, Financial Planning Association and Farmers Insurance.
CSG is a unique communications agency. Walk into our offices and you’ll immediately recognize an enthusiastic culture and the desire to stay ahead of our clients’ needs with strategic consultation that meets their business objectives. It’s a contagious energy here, and we attract top professionals from around the country because few places provide better opportunities to work at such a high level on such meaningful projects.
With offices in Denver, Washington D.C., and New York, CSG employees take an inordinate pride in making an impact on the agency and our clients. We have a “roll up your sleeves” mentality and describe ourselves as “work horses,” not “show horses.”
