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Group Editor - Financial Services

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FT Longitude, the Financial Times’ thought leadership business, is looking to recruit a Group Editor – Financial Services, with experience of creating content across a range of formats and channels, to join our fast-growing team. An extensive induction and training programme is on offer, as well as exciting career progression opportunities.

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Role overview

The successful candidate will lead research programmes for some of the world’s most influential financial services businesses. In so doing, you will find compelling new things to say about ESG, asset management strategies, fintech, payments innovation, and more.

A significant advantage for this role would be experience working with global banks, insurers and asset managers, along with knowledge of evolving trends in financial services, regulation and technologies such as web3 and real-time payments.

You will be responsible for writing surveys, interviewing opinion-formers, extracting stories from data, and working closely with clients to help shape their thinking. You will work on a wide range of content, including long-form reports, podcasts, opinion pieces, narrative and messaging decks, and related digital and interactive content.

The successful candidate needs to be conscientious, reliable, and supportive of others in the team.

Essential Skills and Attributes

• Clear, concise and engaging writing

• Editing long- and short-form content

• Survey writing and hypotheses development

• Data analysis and desktop research

• Interviewing skills (both for qualitative research and podcasts)

• Content planning and strategy

• Creativity, brainstorming and story development

• Client liaison and project management

• Presenting, workshop-facilitation and influencing

• Team-working

About FT Longitude
FT Longitude is a thought leadership specialist that is fully owned by the Financial Times Group. Our product offering spans three areas: Strategy, a set of services that helps clients to plan and execute effective and differentiated thought leadership campaigns; Research, which encompasses surveys, interview programmes, data modelling and desk research; and Content, which covers multi-format thought leadership campaigns, spanning reports, articles, opinion pieces, visual and interactive content. We work hard to build and maintain a strong, engaging culture that motivates and inspires our team to do great work, learn new things and develop their careers.

Our values

• Put quality at the heart of everything we do
• Meet our clients’ objectives every time
• Collaborate and support each other to achieve better outcomes
• Be transparent and open with each other
• Embrace and drive positive change
• Think commercially at all times
• Be proactive and creative

Location
Usually we are based in the FT’s city centre HQ, overlooking St Paul’s Cathedral in London. Option for team members to work in a hybrid environment on a continued basis.

What’s in it for you? Our Benefits
Our benefits vary depending on location, but we are committed to providing best in class perks across all our offices as well as an inclusive environment to develop your career. Examples of our benefits include; generous annual leave allowances, flexible working (including working from home), medical cover, enhanced maternity & paternity packages, subsidised gym memberships and Giving Back opportunities. Full details of our benefits can be foundhere.

Further Information
The FT is committed to providing an inclusive working environment for all. We are an equal opportunities employer who seeks to recruit and appoint the best talent regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We also promote flexible working and will consider specific requests around flexibility for all roles where it can be accommodated. Please let us know if you require any adjustments as part of the application process or to enable you to attend an interview. If you would like to discuss your requirements, or have any questions, please contact a member of our HR team who will be happy to help.

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