Senior Editor, Accounting Lists

Forbes; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Forbes is seeking an enterprising journalist who can design and execute data-driven lists and rankings of top CPAs. The role sits in the editorial team and collaborates with growth, marketing, revenue and SEO to build high-quality content and revenue-generating lists.

You will manage nominations, data analysis, reporting, and multi-channel publication across articles, video, photography and social campaigns, with potential to represent the brand to industry leaders and partners.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of writing and editing in a digital newsroom.
• Deep sourcing experience in the accounting field.
• Working knowledge of SEO best practices.
• Ability to manage multiple projects with stakeholders and deadlines.
• Capability to turn large data sets into a compelling consumer story.
• Experience managing writers, both staff and freelance.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Marketing, Growth, Revenue, and SEO to align content strategy with business objectives.
• Lead creation of revenue-generating 'best-of' lists and accounting industry rankings.
• Develop rigorous quantitative and qualitative methodologies to evaluate excellence.
• Oversee the full editorial lifecycle from nominations to final reporting.
• Write, assign, and edit high-impact articles and profiles across channels.
• Represent Forbes to industry leaders, external partners, and audiences.

Skills

Editorial leadership

SEO best practices

Project management

Stakeholder management

Data interpretation

People leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Hoovers

Dun & Bradstreet

Excel/Sheets

SEO tools

Job description

Location: Remote (United States) — open only to residents of California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Washington

Salary: $120,000 – $165,000/year

Forbes is an iconic global media brand that has symbolized success for over a century. Fueled by journalism that informs and inspires, Forbes spotlights the doers and doings shaping industries, achieving success and making an impact on the world. Forbes connects and convenes the most influential communities ranging from billionaires, business leaders and rising entrepreneurs to creators and innovators. The Forbes brand reaches more than 140 million people monthly worldwide through its trusted journalism, signature ForbesLive events and 49 licensed local editions in 81 countries.

Forbes is seeking an enterprising, talented journalist who is comfortable with data collection to focus on creating lists and rankings of top CPAs and engaging that community. For over 40 years, Forbes has set the gold standard for lists, including the Forbes 400 and 30 Under 30. This position will sit within the editorial team and will collaborate with stakeholders across the company, including growth, marketing, revenue and SEO teams.

You will be the central player in building high-quality, revenue-generating lists by designing quantitative and qualitative methodologies and gathering data to identify top-tier accounting firms and practitioners. You will manage the editorial process of these lists from creation to publication, including analysis, reporting, writing and/or assigning, editing, and collaborating with the wider newsroom to create clear, robust and compelling editorial content. There is potential to build a community and host and program events around CPAs.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a core member of the editorial team, partnering with Marketing, Growth, Revenue, and SEO stakeholders to align content strategy with business objectives.
• Spearhead the creation of new, revenue-generating "best-of" lists and accounting industry rankings.
• Establish rigorous quantitative and qualitative methodologies to evaluate industry excellence, including the development of internal datasets and the synthesis of external data.
• Oversee the full editorial lifecycle—from gathering nominations and securing external partners to data analysis and final reporting.
• Write, assign, and edit high-impact articles and profiles, collaborating with video, photography, and social media teams to ensure a robust multi-channel presence.
• Potential to act as the primary "voice and face" of editorial lists, representing the brand to industry leaders, external partners, and general audiences.

The ideal candidate

• At least 7-10 years of writing and editing in a digital newsroom. Experience working in business journalism is preferred.
• Knowledge, experience and deep sourcing in the accounting field.
• Working knowledge of SEO best practices
• Readiness to work quickly on multiple projects with multiple stakeholders
• Commitment to detail and deadlines with high-level time management and organizational skills, including maintaining an editorial calendar
• Ability to confidently take complicated or large quantities of data and turn into a clean and compelling consumer storyline that includes a list and full editorial package that will appear on- and off-platform as articles, videos, photography, social campaign and more.
• Familiarity with analytics and facility in using a range of qualitative and quantitative research methods, formulas, survey design, and statistical analysis. Highly skilled in working with spreadsheets as well as common business data sources such as Hoovers and Dun & Bradstreet. An ability to tackle design and analytical challenges as they arise plus quality control checks.
• Engaging interpersonal communication skills, with some people leadership experience and demonstrated ability in managing writers, both staff and freelance
• Bachelor's degree required