Senior Editor, Economics & Financial Services

About the role

Deloitte Insights is Deloitte’s global publishing imprint for business research and insights. We publish 400+ articles, reports, and multimedia projects annually with the goal of educating, informing, and inspiring Deloitte clients and prospective clients on the business issues that matter most to their strategic agendas. From leadership and workforce evolution to AI and emerging technologies, to energy resilience and decarbonization, and beyond, Deloitte Insights (DI) publishes data-driven thought leadership for global C-suite and board-level executives across industries.

Responsibilities

• Leverage your own subject matter expertise as an economics and finance editor, as well as your overall business understanding and content skills when collaborating with Deloitte business leaders, internal and external thought leaders, economists, financial services research professionals, and publishing and marketing colleagues to strategize, develop, and execute research and insights stories on prioritized topics
• Evaluate insights projects’ novelty in the generative AI era, along with their alignment with both target audiences’ informational needs and Deloitte’s expertise and business priorities, to help find the sweet spot where Deloitte can offer clients insights of unique value
• Serve as a storytelling strategist, advising on optimal ways to communicate the given insights—including determining the right content type(s) for the given insights, and leveraging multimedia or multimodal storytelling and communication skills to develop copy to suit the medium (reports, articles, infographics, videos, dashboards, etc.)
• Edit copy for factual accuracy, grammar, punctuation, readability, flow, and style, and apply SEO and GEO best practices
• Leverage generative AI per firm and team policies and standards, as a supplemental tool to increase your efficiency, while still ensuring that all projects are still thoroughly human-designed, -developed, -led, and -vetted
• Coach Deloitte content creators on language usage, writing style, storytelling effectiveness, and Deloitte Insights’ production processes
• Lead and contribute to team-wide initiatives focused on storytelling innovation, quality control, or continuous process improvement
• Guide junior editors and review their work

Requirements

Minimum 10 years of experience in writing, editing, and copyediting content in American English (business journalism experience preferred)

Bachelor’s degree (preferably in English, literature, journalism, communications, or similar)

Deep experience in and familiarity with editing economics and finance articles and research reports

Exceptional editing and copyediting skills, and mastery of US English grammar, conversational phrasing, and Associated Press style, and the ability to clearly and influentially explain edits to authors

Exceptional writing and oral communication skills; proven ability to translate complex concepts into easily digestible terms

Excellent attention to detail, laser focus on quality, and demonstrated ability to clarify a story’s main message

Journalist's instinct for fact-checking and critical thinking; ability to read research with healthy skepticism, ask probing questions about data and methodology, spot logical gaps or overstatements, and ensure precision in language around statistics and research findings

Outside-in orientation, considering all content projects from the perspective of the target audience and their needs/interests

Versatile editing and writing skills, from writing engaging headlines and short-form web copy to developmentally editing long-form research reports on complex topics

Experience with creating multimedia content

Excellent stakeholder management and interpersonal skills, including the confidence to interact with and influence personnel at all levels, as well as listening skills, responsiveness, flexibility, initiative, decision-making, conflict resolution, and tact

Proficiency in Microsoft Word, content management systems, and workflow and collaboration tools such as Workfront, Microsoft Teams, etc.; knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint

Ability to manage multiple projects with quick turnaround times simultaneously

Ability to work independently, as well as with a larger, multifunctional team

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of experience in writing, editing, and copyediting content in American English (business journalism experience preferred)
• Bachelor’s degree (preferably in English, literature, journalism, communications, or similar)
• Deep experience in and familiarity with editing economics and finance articles and research reports
• Exceptional editing and copyediting skills, and mastery of US English grammar, conversational phrasing, and Associated Press style, and the ability to clearly and influentially explain edits to authors
• Exceptional writing and oral communication skills; proven ability to translate complex concepts into easily digestible terms
• Excellent attention to detail, laser focus on quality, and demonstrated ability to clarify a story’s main message
• Journalist's instinct for fact-checking and critical thinking; ability to read research with healthy skepticism, ask probing questions about data and methodology, spot logical gaps or overstatements, and ensure precision in language around statistics and research findings
• Outside-in orientation, considering all content projects from the perspective of the target audience and their needs/interests
• Versatile editing and writing skills, from writing engaging headlines and short-form web copy to developmentally editing long-form research reports on complex topics
• Experience with creating multimedia content
• Excellent stakeholder management and interpersonal skills, including the confidence to interact with and influence personnel at all levels, as well as listening skills, responsiveness, flexibility, initiative, decision-making, conflict resolution, and tact
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, content management systems, and workflow and collaboration tools such as Workfront, Microsoft Teams, etc.; knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint
• Ability to manage multiple projects with quick turnaround times simultaneously
• Ability to work independently, as well as with a larger, multifunctional team

Pay

$113,100 to $208,300

Schedule

Full-time