Financial Editor, 12-month Contract

6 days ago

Cape Town, South Africa S&P Global Full time

**About the Role**:
**Grade Level (for internal use)**: 09

**The Role**:
We are seeking a financial editor to join S&P Global Ratings in the EMEA region. You will edit credit-related research and data, including rating actions, comments on events, and in-depth entity-specific and industry reports. Your work will ensure articles are clear, concise, complete, and correct. You will also handle all stages of article production, which can include formatting data visualization charts and infographics. The ability to work quickly and accurately under pressure is essential.

**The Team**:
S&P Global Ratings Editorial team consists of about 100 staff in offices around the world and is part of our Analytical Business Operations and Controls division. As part of this team, you will work closely with editors and analysts throughout EMEA and globally to produce credit analysis and research of financial institutions, corporations, and governments. We operate in an exciting, diverse, and dynamic environment and we are committed to putting our people first. Depending on where the hire is located, the manager could be either Claire Ellis or Bernadette Stroder.

**The Impact**:
The quality of your work has a direct correlation and is critical to S&P Global Ratings' mission to provide transparency and accountability to financial markets. The quality and accuracy of our credit opinions are essential to our reputation as the foremost provider of market intelligence and analytical insight. The essential information we provide powers the future of the markets and accelerates progress in the world.

**What you stand to Gain**:
You will gain experience of working in a fast-paced, exciting environment.
You will collaborate with a diverse team of content creators at the forefront of next-generation publishing.
You will gain wide geographical exposure by working on editing and writing assignments with analytical and editorial colleagues around the world.

**Responsibilities**:
Edit credit-related research and data, including rating actions, comments on events, and in-depth entity-specific and industry reports.
Ensure articles are grammatically accurate, adhere to house style, and meet publishing standards.
Highlight insights through refining key messages, topic sentences, and headlines.
Pay strong attention to detail and processes to ensure error-free articles under tight deadlines that comply with regulatory standards.
Perform production tasks, ensuring all articles conform to global publishing standards in terms of format, style, and branding specifications.

**What We’re Looking For**:
Bachelor's degree in digital journalism, communications, economics, or a related discipline.
Proven editing ability, with minimum of two years' experience in financial research or business media.
Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
Sound knowledge of terminology and concepts used in financial markets.
Good interpersonal and decision-making skills.
Ability to adapt in a fast-paced and pressured environment.
An advantage would be an interest in developing data visualization skills using Microsoft Office suite, Adobe Illustrator, or InDesign.

Flexible Working

We pride ourselves on our agility and diversity, and we welcome requests to work flexibly. For most roles, flexible hours and/or an element of remote working are usually possible. Please talk to us at interview about the type of arrangement that is best for you. We will always try to be adaptable wherever we can.

About S&P Global Ratings
At S&P Global Ratings, our analyst-driven credit ratings, research, and sustainable finance opinions provide critical insights that are essential to translating complexity into clarity so market participants can uncover opportunities and make decisions with conviction. By bringing transparency to the market through high-quality independent opinions on creditworthiness, we enable growth across a wide variety of organizations, including businesses, governments, and institutions.
**S&P Global Ratings is a division of S&P Global (NYSE**: SPGI). S&P Global is the world’s foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the world’s leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today.

What’s In It For You?

**Our Purpose**:
Progress is not a self-starter. It requires a catalyst to be set in motion. Information, imagination, people, technology-the right combination can unlock possibility and change the world.

Our world is in transition and getting more complex by the day. We push past expected observations and seek out new levels of understanding so that we can help companies, governments and individuals make an impact on tomorrow. At S&P Global we transform data into Essential Intelligence®, pinpointing risks and opening possibilities. We Accelerate Progress.

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