Financial Writer at Asset and Equity Group

Asset and Equity Group  - We are committed to providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress. Asset and Equity Group is a foremost financial and investment services firm with increasing innovative products and unconventional services delivered across its various subsidiaries in different economic sectors. As advisors, once we’ve established your investment management plan, we provide you with ongoing monitoring and periodic reviews.

Regularly, we will meet with you to conduct a thorough investment review and ensure that we continue to calibrate your plan as your goals and circumstances evolve. We begin with a comprehensive fact-finding meeting to review your current financial situation and discuss the goals that are important to you. Our purpose is to have a clear understanding of your objectives and risk tolerance to determine which investment model best suits you.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Financial Writer

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos

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 the wide-ranging consequences of financial and economic events.

Person Specification
Essential:

• Bachelor's Degree
• 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, the political and economic factors that influence them.
• Experience or knowledge of how to rank highly within Google News.

Application Closing Date
31st October, 2021.