The roles

We are looking for an Account Executive and an Intern to join our award-winning Capital Markets team to work on an exciting range of clients across multiple sectors. 

Key Responsibilities - Account Executive

• Deliver agreed client programmes / actions, with responsibility for providing timely and clear reporting on progress
• Develop an understanding and awareness of key financial media titles whilst actively selling into various media, building relationships with journalists, helping to shape and monitor coverage
• Liaise with equity research analysts, building relationships and understanding their perceptions of our listed clients
• Play an active part in delivering campaigns, including the use of social media
• Support new business pitches with research, content and idea development
• Prepare for and attend client meetings, networking and marketing events
• Develop a basic understanding of the regulatory environment within which our clients must communicate
• Actively deepen knowledge of clients’ businesses, issues and media, in order to support the team in the delivery of overall client objectives

Key responsibilities – Intern

• Play a supportive role in helping account teams deliver tasks to clients, including media, peer, parliamentary and macro-economic monitoring, stakeholder mapping and research, in a timely and efficient manner
• Attend seminars, client and marketing events and take minutes
• Carrying out the FTSE 250 Stock Pick Challenge presentation at the end of the internship

The successful candidates will

• Have a keen interest in current affairs, financial markets and what makes businesses tick
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Be highly organised and time efficient
• Be keen to work and learn quickly in a highly varied, sometimes pressured but always interesting environment
• Be a fast learner, have enough drive to work independently, and enough flexibility to become part of a well-established team
• Be offered training via our multi-layered training and development programme
• Need to be based in London, eligible to work in the UK
• For the Account Executive role, preferably have undertaken prior work experience or an internship in PR, however this is not essential