SSA Reporter

Derivia Intelligence; Greater London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Derivia Intelligence is a leading provider of specialist data and insights to the global financial services industry. The SSA Reporter role focuses on GlobalCapital’s public sector bond market, delivering timely data, analyses and features to support the publication’s reputation.

You will build sources, contribute to stories and ensure accurate data is integrated with the data team while representing the business at GC and industry events.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of and experience covering primary bond markets.
• Ability to build trusted sources and relationships.
• Proven ability to lead from the front in coverage.
• Attention to detail and high accuracy.
• Comfortable working with numbers and data.
• Ability to represent the business at GC and industry events.
• Ability to work under own direction.
• Willingness to travel abroad and work outside regular hours.
• Eligibility to work in the UK without visa sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to GlobalCapital’s SSA market coverage with deals, trends and news.
• Know the market and key players to maintain GlobalCapital’s reputation.
• Contribute opinions, longer features and analysis; appear on podcasts.
• Collate accurate data for GlobalCapital’s data offering with the data team.
• Be a voice for the SSA market within the newsroom and pitch stories.
• Write with accuracy in house style and meet deadlines.
• Build relationships with key SSA market players for diverse sources.
• Represent the newspaper at industry events and enhance reputation.
• Support SSA Editor to keep news and data sections updated and emails refreshed.
• Cover other sections as needed

Skills

Bond markets knowledge

Source relationships

Lead from front

Attention to detail

Numerical/data literacy

Industry events representation

Independent work

Willingness to travel

UK eligibility

Data tools & AI

Tools

Data tools

AI

Job description

Job Description

Derivia Intelligence is a leading provider of specialist data and insights to the global financial services industry. Through its brands Structured Retail Products (SRP), GlobalCapital (GC) and Futures & Options World (FOW), the group delivers mission-critical products that enable clients to navigate complexity and drive performance across intricate areas of global finance.

About GlobalCapital

For almost four decades GlobalCapital — one of three flagship businesses within Derivia, alongside SRP and FOW — has provided an unparalleled combination of incisive and timely data, news, insights and events surrounding the world’s capital and derivatives markets.

Today, Derivia is trusted by the world’s largest investment banks, bond issuers, asset managers, hedge funds, service providers and regulators to allow them to transact with confidence.

About The Job

• Contribute to GlobalCapital’s public sector bond (SSA) market coverage, covering the latest deals, trends, themes and news of key people within the market as well as providing accurate, timely data to our proprietary datasets.
• Get to know the market and its key players to maintain GlobalCapital’s reputation in what is one of the most important markets it covers.
• Contribute opinion pieces, longer features and analysis and make appearances on our podcasts as required.
• Collate and contribute accurate and timely data for GlobalCapital’s data offering in conjunction with data team
• Be one of the voices of the SSA bond market within the newsroom, pitching story ideas, championing special report ideas, and writing for them, and providing insight and a source of collaboration for the rest of the editorial team to make sure GlobalCapital is at the forefront of the newest trends and ideas in capital markets.
• Write with accuracy in the house style and to tight deadlines, to maintain GlobalCapital’s distinctive editorial voice and its reputation as a reliable and indispensable part of working in capital markets.
• Build a broad number of deep relationships with key people in the SSA bond market and become part of the daily fabric of that market to ensure the newspaper understands its subject and its readers better than any of its rivals and has as many sources for stories as possible.
• Represent the newspaper at industry events to provide coverage, build contacts and to enhance GlobalCapital’s reputation as part of the fabric of the markets it covers.
• Support the SSA Editor in seeing that the relevant news and data sections of the GlobalCapital website are kept up to date and that relevant email news alerts are well presented with fresh content each day and distributed to deadline.
• Provide cover from time to time for other sections as required

Reporting Lines

The SSA Reporter will report to the SSA Editor and will work with other senior editorial colleagues as directed

Candidate Profile/Requirements

• Knowledge of and experience of covering the primary bond markets
• A proven ability to build trusted relationships with sources.
• Ability to lead from the front in driving market leading coverage
• Attention to detail and impeccable standards of accuracy.
• Comfortable working with numbers and data.
• Ability to represent the business at GC and industry events
• Ability to work under own direction.
• Willingness to travel abroad and work outside of regular hours when required.
• Eligibility to work in the UK without visa sponsorship
• Experience of working with data tools and AI an advantage