Account Executive, Financial Communications

Edelman New York is seeking a high-energy Account Executive to join our growing financial communications team. Partner with us to help top companies tell their stories to key audiences for clients across industries. If you are looking for a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment, and want to work with clients who change the world, we want to talk with you. Our team is hands-on. Everyone, regardless of seniority, plays a key role. Our work is wide-ranging and constantly moving, from media pitching, investor messaging, executive positioning, social media, and crisis response. Together we help businesses evolve and influence how brands are perceived. Edelman team members are smart, determined, and curious. We are continuous learners with great writing skills, capital markets knowledge, attention to detail, and a passion for the creative process. We listen, ask questions and collaborate closely to develop outstanding programs that transform companies and shape the conversation of tomorrow. Edelman’s Financial Communications is a boutique strategic consultancy with the reach and resources of the world’s largest public relations firm. 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 & spin-offs, C-suite transitions, bankruptcy, shareholder activism, etc.). This candidate will support efforts to grow the FinComms Team Responsibilities:

• Contribute to a wide range of investor relations and communication programs for a diverse set of clients across multiple industries and those affiliated with the capital markets.
• Develop messaging for special situations such as mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, IPOs, as well as traditional investor materials.
• Partner with C-suite executives at leading firms.
• Deliver fresh ideas, produce high-quality work and drive results.
• Quickly grasp business objectives and recommend thoughtful strategies and tactics to achieve those objectives.
• Manage multiple projects and tasks.
• Anticipate opportunities and challenges.
• Participate in relationship building and new business efforts.
• Conduct competitive research and prospecting and provide ideas for proposal design and new pitches.
• Embrace and elevate Edelman’s extraordinary culture and live the Edelman values of excellence, curiosity and courage.

Qualifications:

• Knowledge and interest in financial services, capital markets, media and investor relations, crisis, and special situations work.
• Demonstrated background as a strong communicator in both the B2B and B2C spaces.
• Bachelor's degree and relevant work experience.
• Knowledge of digital communications strategies and platforms, including LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.
• Ability to develop communications plans, implement PR and marketing tactics and impart knowledge to all team members.
• Strong knowledge of the stock market and general business trends.
• Possess research, writing, editing, and client interaction skills.
• Ability to perform well under pressure and be an optimistic and committed team player.

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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