Account Manager/ Senior Account Manager - Fintech/ Finance and/or Property - looking to hire ASAP!

JFL Search & Selection Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A communications consultancy is seeking an Account Manager/Senior Account Manager to manage client relationships and provide strategic counsel. The ideal candidate will possess a background in finance or fintech and demonstrate strong leadership and writing skills. The role includes overseeing account workflows and ensuring timely execution of deliverables. Benefits include private health and dental insurance, extensive training, and performance bonuses.

Benefits

Private health and dental insurance

Extensive training

Discretionary bonuses

Pension plan

Qualifications

• Background in finance or fintech preferred.
• Strong work ethic and ownership of account workload.
• Clear understanding of integrated marketing communications.

Responsibilities

• Act as primary point of contact for clients.
• Manage workflow across accounts ensuring alignment.
• Provide strategic counsel to clients.

Skills

Client relationship management

Team leadership

Strategic thinking

Excellent writing skills

Job description

Account Manager/ Senior Account Manager - Fintech/ Finance and/or Property - looking to hire ASAP!

Salary Salary DOE - private health and dental, extensive training, discretionary bonus, new business bonus, pension and much more

Location London

Reference EG889013

A London-based communications consultancy dedicated to helping deliver outstanding business success for their clients in a wide range of sectors including finance, fintech, property and energy is hiring! Ideally a background in finance/fintech is preferable (property is a plus) as that is a large part of what they do.

Keen to hire ASAP!

Account management:

• Acting as the primary point of contact for clients day to day and building their trust
• Taking responsibility for the management of workflow across the account and ensuring alignment across company
  • Alerting senior team members to pressures, deadlines or issues on accounts
  • Ensuring junior team members are delivering to deadlines and to standard required
• Acting as first point of contact for account executives and SAEs for queries and copy review
• Ensuring timely execution and delivery of account administration, including EOW reports/monthly activity reports, coverage documents etc
• Proactively briefing clients and regularly updating them on activity, such as announcements, campaigns
• Exhibiting understanding of and sensitivity to changing client priorities and pressures
• Serving as an enthusiastic role model to junior team members, providing proactive guidance, support and constructive feedback
• Maintaining can-do approach and cool head in moments of pressure or challenging circumstances and stepping up to challenges when they arise
• Showcasing a strong work ethic and ownership of account workload and ensuring this attitude is demonstrated by more junior team members
• Encouraging an ethos of friendliness and conscientiousness across the team, supporting team members, offering help and maintaining strong collegiality

Delivery:

• Increasingly offering strategic counsel to clients to aid their PR and wider marketing campaigns
• Leading in the development of innovative and creative ideas for clients to support high levels of quality activity
• Recognising and delivering strategic updates to clients – e.g. recognising where fresh comms plans or activity planning is needed
• Demonstrating consistent and robust understanding of client sector issues, news and trends and ability to capitalise on this expertise quickly and effectively
• Leading and initiating team brainstorms and developing news angles, stories and pitches
• Showing clear understanding and appreciation of client KPIs and expectations and holding team to account on these
• Excellent writing skills across range of media and ability to coach junior team members to the same standard
• Demonstrating clear understanding of integrated marcomms programmes and appreciation for how digital initiatives can join up with PR
• Overseeing management of integrated activity coordinating across different team members
• Showcasing understanding of agency capabilities and beginning to communicate this persuasively to current and potential clients

New business

• Taking leading role in the development and management of new business projects, providing clear guidance and quality control for junior team members
• Demonstrating clarity and confidence during new business pitches
• Robust understanding and ability to articulate breadth of the business services

They offer a great benefits including: private health and dental, extensive training, discretionary bonus, new business bonus, pension and much more

To find out more about these opportunities, contact Edwina Goldman – [e-mail]