Public Relations Senior Account Executive – Financial Services PR

Finn Partners • New York, NY

13d • $65,000 - $75,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Finn Partners is an award-winning, global, integrated marketing and public relations agency. We are a bold collective of communications advocates who steward brands, protect reputations, promote thought leadership, and leverage data and analytics to shape the most important conversations of our day. FINN Partners’ Financial Services Public Relations practice is one of the best in the industry! We’re seeking a PR SAE who is passionate about public relations, ready to jump in to enhance our team's continued success and loves working with leading regional, national, and international financial services sector clients. The PR SAE supports our leadership team in essential client work, and helps to ensure that our team develops and executes high-quality strategic communications campaigns that exceed client expectations.

Requirements

• 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 and effective writing and editing skills.
• High proficiency in verbal communication and experience liaising in a client-facing role.
• Experience working with traditional and social media strategies and campaigns.
• Possesses strong media relations strategy and storytelling skills.
• Drafts compelling messages that drive business goals and elevate client programs.
• Detail-oriented, deadline-oriented, able to work in a fast-paced, growing environment.
• Strong project management skills and the ability to simultaneously manage multiple projects.
• Strong organizational skills and the agility needed to thrive in fast-paced environments.
• Experience using all Microsoft Office products.

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 alongside the client team to secure national, trade, and local media placements by proactively 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, spotting journalist moves, and/or engaging with new media contacts.
• Assist the quality development and timely delivery of project trackers, call agendas, action items/recaps, weekly, biweekly, and monthly verbal and other written client reporting.

Benefits

• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees