Public Relations Senior Account Executive – Financial Services PR Job at FINN Pa

Public Relations Senior Account Executive – Financial Services PR

Location: New York, NY. Hybrid work schedule: 3 days in the office, 2 days remote each week. This is a full-time, direct-hire position. Please upload your resume in PDF format only. Candidates must reside in the NY, NY metropolitan area.

Qualified PR Senior Account Executive applicants will have 3+ years of prior public relations experience, preferably at an agency working with clients in the financial services B2B and B2C sector (investing, crypto, banking, and payments, etc). There is one job opening right now for either SAE or AS in our Financial Services PR Practice – this is the SAE ad.

This Full-time, Direct-hire Position Has Terrific Benefits & Perks

• Generous vacation, personal, holiday, and sick days off, plus up to 5 Winter Break paid days off between Christmas and New Year’s Day, plus up to 5 additional Summer Days Off.
• Travel and consumer discounts (from rental cars to cell phones and more)
• Wellness subsidy
• 401K Plan
• Outstanding insurance/benefits package
• Career mentorship from some of the best PR pros in the business
• Professional growth opportunities within our award-winning global PR agency

Finn Partners is an award-winning, global, integrated marketing and public relations agency. We steward brands, protect reputations, promote thought leadership, and leverage data and analytics to shape important conversations. FINN Partners’ Financial Services Public Relations practice serves leading regional, national, and international clients. The PR SAE supports our leadership team in essential client work and helps ensure that our campaigns exceed client expectations.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the execution of creative, strategic client public relations programs and campaigns, including budget and KPI tracking.
• Develop communications materials including client-ready documents, strategies, pitches, media lists, press releases, key messages, briefing books, blog posts, external facing press materials and bylined articles.
• Support the implementation of core PR campaigns – planning, media strategy/pitching, event management, social media, content writing/editing, research, and account administration.
• Execute strong media relations campaigns, expert positioning and reactive media relations. Work with the client team to secure national, trade, and local media placements by researching and pitching compelling story angles.
• Support the development of client presentations including new business proposals, annual plans, strategy memos, and KPI/metric reports.
• Actively build and maintain strong relationships with the media across relevant client verticals and engage with new media contacts.
• Assist the quality development and timely delivery of project trackers, call agendas, action items/recaps, weekly, biweekly, and monthly client reporting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, marketing, or public relations.
• 3+ years of prior public relations experience, preferably at a PR agency (Account Executive level or equivalent) working with C-suite level corporate and financial services clients or in-house corporate communications role.
• Strong writing and editing skills.
• High proficiency in verbal communication and client-facing experience.
• Experience with traditional and social media strategies and campaigns.
• Strong media relations strategy and storytelling skills.
• Ability to draft compelling messages that drive business goals and elevate client programs.
• Detail-oriented, deadline-oriented, able to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong project management and multitasking abilities.
• Strong organizational skills and adaptability for fast-paced settings.
• Experience using Microsoft Office products.

Salary range is $65,000-$75,000. The salary will be commensurate with the selected candidate’s experience and dependent upon the workload. Location: New York, NY.

To Apply

Please upload your resume and cover letter and indicate your target salary in US Dollars that aligns with our stated salary range budget. We will only respond to candidates with whom we have the greatest interest.

About Finn Partners: FINN Partners is a global, integrated marketing and public relations agency with over 1,300 professionals across 35 offices. Headquartered in New York, FINN Partners provides clients with global access and capabilities across the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

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