Account Supervisor, Financial Services Communications
Key Skills for This Role
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Key Responsibilities:
- Lead communications strategies for financial services clients, from ideation to execution.
- Serve as day-to-day lead on teams and client contact, with a focus on timeliness, quality, and budget adherence.
- 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, creating efficiencies and 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.
- Oversee the work of junior team members, providing mentorship, feedback, and guidance.
- Contribute to new business efforts, supporting proposal development, pitch preparation, and deskside research.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in business, journalism, communications, or a related field.
- At least 4+ years of experience in corporate communications, financial services, public relations, or public affairs, preferably in an agency setting.
- Experience in financial communications, with a strong understanding of financial institutions, the financial services industry landscape and key stakeholder audiences.
- 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.
- $83,000 - $110,000 per year
- #LI-JLF
- 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.
- DJEH is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and believes in diversity, equity, and inclusion. We seek applications from all qualified candidates without regard to race, color, gender, sex, age, religion, physical or mental disability, military and veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. If you require a reasonable accommodation in any part of the employment process, please let us know.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in financial communications, with a strong understanding of financial institutions, the financial services industry landscape and key stakeholder audiences.
- 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.
- $83,000 - $110,000 per year
- #LI-JLF
- 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.
- DJEH is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and believes in diversity, equity, and inclusion. We seek applications from all qualified candidates without regard to race, color, gender, sex, age, religion, physical or mental disability, military and veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. If you require a reasonable accommodation in any part of the employment process, please let us know.
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