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Financial Writer

1 Day ago • All levels • Editorial • $70,000 PA - $100,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Financial Writer at Seeking Alpha, you'll ghostwrite articles on stocks and ETFs using unique data points, incorporating qualitative information about companies, industries, and the market. Your goal is to create engaging articles that drive subscriptions. You'll collaborate with the Quant Team to brainstorm ideas, develop new series, and contribute to newsletters. Responsibilities include writing, editing, fact-checking, and responding to queries. You'll need to monitor market trends and work cross-functionally to optimize article reach. This role requires a solid understanding of finance, excellent writing skills, and the ability to meet deadlines while producing high-quality content.
Must have:
  • Solid understanding of financials and investments
  • Expert written and verbal communication
  • 2000+ word articles experience
  • SEO knowledge
  • Deadline-oriented (2000-3000 words/day)
  • Understanding of financial reader needs
Perks:
  • Remote work
  • Hassle-free projects
  • Direct bank payments
  • Work with industry-leading experts

Job Details

Description

Why we’re a great company to work for

Seeking Alpha is a premier website for crowdsourced research and investing tools. With breaking news, actionable stock market opinion, analysis, and intelligent finance discussion, our leading-edge investment analysis draws millions of monthly visitors with real-time alerts. We care about work-life balance and employ hundreds of people across the globe. Our operations in the US, Israel, Ukraine, and India are supported by team members who work primarily from home and enjoy many perks.

We handpick from the world’s top market blogs, money managers, financial experts, and investment newsletters, publishing unique articles and news updates daily. We invest in people and consider every employee a long-term investment, continuously nurturing and training our teammates. The company has been named the Most Informative Website by Kiplinger’s Magazine and has received the Forbes ‘Best of the Web’ Award.

About The Role

Seeking Alpha has state-of-the-art financial metrics and data points generated by its quantitative team. The objective of the Financial Writer is to publish articles on stocks using Seeking Alpha’s unique data points and to overlay the pieces with interesting qualitative information about the company, industry, and market. The goal is to produce well-balanced qualitative and quantitative articles that convince readers to sign up for Seeking Alpha’s subscription services. 

KPI- Success metrics

  • Number of published articles weekly
  • Page views
  • Subscription sign-ups resulting from article views

What’s in it for you?

  • Work with an industry-leading expert in investment strategies.
  • Learn about financial markets, investment research, and trading strategies.
  • Be part of a team with immense creative license to bring forward various new technological methods for its trading strategies.
  • Remote Writing: Work from the comfort of your home.
  • Hassle-free Writing: Projects come to you, so no bidding. No applying.
  • Easy Payment: Payments are deposited directly to your bank account.
  • Service: You produce excellent quality writing on time, and we promise to keep you busy and paid.


What You'll Do

  • Ghostwrite articles on stocks and ETFs under the name of a prominent Quantitative Strategist to convert web audiences into paid subscriptions (A ghostwriter writes on behalf of another person).
  • Aid the development strategy for new series, unique articles, and other initiatives.
  • Brainstorm ideas with the Quant Team to develop articles and topics.
  • Help develop and write monthly newsletters, campaigns, etc.
  • Write, edit & fact-check content around deadlines.
  • Help respond to market data-related queries, article comments, emails, and questions, ensuring quality, and reliability, without offering investment advice. Work closely with the Quant Team, marketing, and editorial to direct written guidance, including editing and raw fact-checking data and querying when necessary.
  • Monitor and follow recent headlines, politics, and economic trends to develop dynamic concepts for financial/investor articles.
  • Work cross-functionally as the central liaison between the Head of Strategy, Marketing, and Editorial to get articles published and optimize reach.
  • While most of your role will involve creating written content and ghostwriting, you may occasionally be asked to assist with other tasks and aid departments your team closely works with.


Requirements

  • Solid understanding of financials and investments, particularly investment strategies and asset classes.
  • Expert written and verbal communication and critical thinking skills.
  • Adapting brand tone to fit different scenarios while reflecting a content strategy.
  • Implement financial data quality checks to monitor data for the articles proactively.
  • Having experience writing and self-editing articles of at least 2,000 words is best. 
  • You write unique articles with appropriate levels of importance and believable dialogue and excel at relaying facts and information to readers engagingly while properly researching and citing your work. 
  • SEO Knowledge

What you need to succeed :

  • As a ghostwriter, you understand that you will receive no official credit for the completed work.
  • Impeccable writing and oral skills in US English.
  • Deadline-oriented with a 2,000 to 3,000-word-per-day writing pace.
  • You understand what financial readers want, and you can write to the market.
  • You are available throughout the day to respond to our platform's author and team members.
  • You are reliable, well-spoken, open to constructive criticism, and a good communicator.
  • Attention to detail

The applicable salary range for this position is $70,000/yr to $100,000/yr which depends on a variety of factors including relevant experience, location, business needs, and market demand.

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