Home-Based/ Freelance Financial Reporters Wanted for SNL Financial (East/ Southeast Asia)

12 September 2012
Home-Based/ Freelance Financial Reporters Wanted for SNL Financial (East/ Southeast Asia)
Leading U.S. news and data firm, SNL Financial is expanding its service in Asia and is seeking freelance, financial reporters throughout East/Southeast Asia to supplement its news coverage of Asian financial institutions.

Candidates must be fluent in both spoken and written English, as well as in one or more of the following: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Indonesian/Malay and Thai. The position entails daily researching and writing. Candidates must be able to read financial news stories in an Asian language and concisely summarize them into English. Stories must be submitted daily by 6 a.m. HKT.

This position offers a competitive monthly retainer and also affords the opportunity to produce occasional proprietary reports on the region's financial institutions space. Our real-time, web-based news service reaches an influential readership that include the major players at leading global financial institutions. Our massive database, with comprehensive coverage of the market, regulatory and corporate data that impacts our sectors, offers ample opportunities to enhance and drive our reporting. Our Asian coverage includes banks and financial services companies headquartered in China, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam, among other geographies.

Requirements: Familiarity with financial markets in the region; an ability to quickly and accurately summarize source material in one language into another; and computer proficiency.

Interested candidates should send CV and writing samples to Mark Roberts.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For queries/ submissions: mroberts@snl.com

Website: http://www.snl.com/
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