Finance Editor

Finance Editor - Geneva or Zurich

Job Requisition Number: 36911
Europe Middle East and Africa
Geneva - CHE

The Role:
Bloomberg News seeks an editor to join its European Finance team in Geneva or Zurich. Responsibilities include generating and shaping ideas, editing copy, coaching and mentoring reporters and interacting with fellow editors on the team and across the organization. Knowledge of the banking and insurance industries and financial regulation is preferred. An understanding of the economy and financial markets is a plus. Business editing experience at a wire service is essential. The successful applicant will be able to work with reporters to produce breaking news stories under deadline pressure, as well as longer in-depth features, ensuring all are clear, comprehensive and accurate.

Qualifications:
-Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
-Business editing experience at a wire service.
-Ability to work well under pressure.
-Proven success in generating story ideas.
-Proven success in producing outstanding copy.
-Proven success in mentoring and coaching reporters.
-Editing experience.
-Knowledge of the economy, financial markets, and business.

The Company:
Bloomberg, the global business and financial information and news leader, gives influential decision makers a critical edge by connecting them to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. The company's strength - delivering data, news and analytics through innovative technology, quickly and accurately - is at the core of the Bloomberg Professional service, which provides real time financial information to more than 300,000 subscribers globally. Bloomberg's enterprise solutions build on the company's core strength, leveraging technology to allow customers to access, integrate, distribute and manage data and information across organizations more efficiently and effectively. Through Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg Government and Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the company provides data, news and analytics to decision makers in industries beyond finance. And Bloomberg News, delivered through television, radio, mobile, the Internet and two magazines, Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg Markets, covers the world with more than 2,300 news and multimedia professionals at 146 bureaus in 72 countries. Headquartered in New York, Bloomberg employs more than 13,000 people in 185 locations around the world.

Bloomberg is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all backgrounds regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or any other classification protected by law.

November 14, 2013 • Tags:  • Posted in: Financial

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