External Communications Specialist (Financial Servcies)

Key day-to-day activity includes:

• Draft press releases and key index announcements to support the business, working closely with legal and compliance counterparts

• Media monitoring and sharing of key news stories

• Crisis and issues communications support

• Play a critical role in our global day-to-day press office activity, including responding to key financial and markets reporters in timely manner

• Thought leadership and research distribution with key reporters

• Advise senior leaders and stakeholders on critical comms issues

• Support across index rebalance communications

• Educate reporters on S&P DJI’s index methodologies and approach

• Contribute to internal communications initiatives where appropriate

Qualifications:

• At least 8 years of communications experience, with significant focus on external communications, preferably in the financial services/markets industry

• Exceptional writer

• Strong interpersonal skills; ability to easily build relationships and inspire trust and confidence from senior leaders

• Experience working globally in a large multinational, matrixed organization or agency environment

• Creativity and willingness to try new communications formats and push the boundaries

• Eagerness to explore content creation tools

• Ability to develop KPIs to measure success and use data and insights to inform communications decisions, influence stakeholders and demonstrate results

• Effective management of priorities and level of service to our stakeholders

• Execution to the highest of standards, with strong attention to detail and deadlines

• Bachelor’s or equivalent university degree