Job Title: Financial Content Writer & Editor
Location: New York, NY 10282 (Hybrid)
Duration: 6 Months (Contract)
Work Schedule: 40 Hours per Week
Job Overview
One of our clients is seeking an experienced and creative Financial Content Writer & Editor to join its fast-paced Marketing & Communications team. This role is ideal for a markets-savvy professional who can transform complex financial, wealth management, and macroeconomic concepts into engaging, clear, and accessible content for corporate executives, HR leaders, and employees.
The successful candidate will create thought leadership materials, market perspectives, educational content, and multi-channel communications that support client engagement, employee financial wellness, and business development.
You will collaborate with senior leaders and subject-matter experts to develop high-quality content across digital and traditional channels, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and alignment with brand and regulatory requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Content Writing & Editorial Development: Research, write, edit, and develop engaging content across multiple channels, including web articles, whitepapers, video scripts, newsletters, executive summaries, and promotional materials.
- Financial Content Development: Translate complex financial concepts, including tax strategies, market trends, investment strategies, wealth management, and macroeconomic developments, into clear and practical content for diverse audiences.
- Audience-Focused Communication: Develop content tailored to both business-to-business (B2B) audiences, such as corporate decision-makers and HR leaders, and business-to-consumer (B2C) audiences, including employees and individual clients.
- Compliance & Quality Assurance: Coordinate with legal, compliance, and internal review teams to ensure content meets regulatory requirements, editorial standards, and established brand guidelines.
- Internal Communications & Digital Publishing: Create, organize, and publish weekly internal editorial updates through digital communication platforms and intranet systems using standard web/HTML templates.
- Content Operations & Project Management: Manage content projects from initial concept and research through drafting, editing, review, approval, and publication.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with senior stakeholders, financial subject-matter experts, and marketing teams to develop accurate, relevant, and impactful communications.
- Deadline Management: Manage multiple projects and competing priorities while maintaining exceptional writing quality, accuracy, and attention to detail.
Required Qualifications & Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Journalism, English, Writing, Communications, Finance, Economics, or a related discipline.
- 3+ years of professional writing and editing experience in financial services, financial journalism, wealth management, personal finance, fintech, or B2B corporate communications.
- Strong understanding of financial markets, macroeconomics, investing, wealth management, personal finance, and workplace financial benefits.
- Demonstrated experience creating content for multiple formats, including: Long-form thought leadership articles and whitepapers; Marketing and promotional content; Video scripts and digital content; Executive summaries and newsletters.
- Exceptional writing, copyediting, proofreading, and fact-checking skills.
- Strong research and citation skills with excellent attention to detail.
- Ability to simplify complex financial and technical information for different audiences.
- Experience working in a deadline-driven environment while managing multiple projects simultaneously.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working in a compliance-driven or FINRA-regulated financial services environment.
- Familiarity with financial services marketing, legal review, and regulatory approval processes.
- Experience with project management platforms such as Monday.com.
- Familiarity with HTML-based content publishing, intranet platforms, and WYSIWYG editors.
- Understanding of corporate brand guidelines, editorial standards, and messaging frameworks.
