Senior Account Executive, Financial Services Communications

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• Lead communications strategies for financial services clients, ensuring tailored messaging and engagement.
• Serve as a client contact, ensuring consistent and high-quality communication.
• Assist in the creation and execution of communications plans and strategies, aligning with client objectives.
• Develop a deep understanding of clients’ businesses, key stakeholders, and industry landscapes, and apply this knowledge to provide strategic recommendations.
• Support senior leadership in identifying and mitigating challenges, ensuring client satisfaction.
• Work with leadership to develop media engagement strategies, maintaining and leveraging relationships with key financial journalists, producers, and influencers.
• Craft compelling thought leadership content, including op-eds, speeches, corporate messaging, and media materials.
• Provide proactive and reactive media counsel to clients, ensuring message alignment and positioning.
• Translate complex financial and regulatory topics into clear, compelling narratives for media, investors, and other key stakeholders.
• Contribute to multiple projects from inception to completion, ensuring timeliness, quality, and budget adherence.
• Oversee the work of junior team members, providing mentorship, feedback, and guidance.
• Collaborate with internal teams to develop integrated communications campaigns.
• Contribute to new business development, supporting proposal development, pitch preparation, and research efforts.

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in political science, business, journalism, communications, or equivalent work experience.
• At least 2+ years of experience in corporate communications, financial services, or public relations, preferably in an agency setting.

Preferred

• Experience in financial communications, with a strong understanding of financial institutions, hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, and alternative assets.
• Strong media relations expertise, with established journalist relationships and a demonstrated ability to secure high-impact media coverage.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to develop strategic messaging and thought leadership content.
• Strong project management skills, with a proactive, detail-oriented, and results-driven mindset.
• Ability to work effectively in fast-paced, high-pressure environments, managing multiple priorities simultaneously.
• An employee’s pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, travel requirements, revenue-based metrics, any contractual agreements, and business or organizational needs. The range listed is just one component of DJEH’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, a Paid Time Off policy, and region-specific benefits.
• DJEH offers a wide range of benefits: medical and dental insurance, vision, 401K, life insurance, disability insurance, paid time off, travel assistance and wellness programing.

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401k
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Paid time off
• Travel assistance
• Wellness programming