Public Relations Account Supervisor – Financial Services PR (NYC)

Location: New York, NY

Public Relations Account Supervisor – Financial Services PR (NYC)

NEW YORK: The Public Relations Account Supervisor will be based in our NY, NY office. This is a hybrid work schedule role, working 3 days in the office and 2 days remotely each week. It is a full-time, direct-hire position. 

Qualified PR Account Supervisor applicants will have 4+ years of prior public relations experience (preferably at an agency) working with clients in the financial services B2B and B2C sector (investing, crypto, banking, and payments etc.). There is one job opening at SAE or AS level, and this is the ad for the AS role.

This full-time, direct-hire position has terrific benefits & perks:

• Generous vacation, personal, holiday, and sick days off, plus up to 5 Winter Break paid days off between Christmas and New Year’s Day, plus up to 5 additional Summer Days Off.
• Travel and consumer discounts (from rental cars to cell phones and more)
• Wellness subsidy
• 401K Plan
• Outstanding insurance/benefits package
• Career mentorship from some of the best PR pros in the business
• Professional growth opportunities within our award-winning global PR agency

Now that we’ve (hopefully) sold you on us, let’s talk about this role and our team:
Finn Partners is an award-winning, global, integrated marketing and public relations agency. We are a bold collective of communications advocates who steward brands, protect reputations, promote thought leadership, and leverage data and analytics to shape the most important conversations of our day. FINN Partners’ Financial Services Public Relations practice is one of the best in the industry! We’re seeking a PR Account Supervisor who is passionate about public relations, ready to jump in to enhance our team’s continued success and loves working with leading regional, national, and international financial services sector clients. The PR account supervisor is an essential client contact and ensures our team develops and executes high-quality strategic communications campaigns that exceed client expectations.

Responsibilities:

• Work with partner-level executives to manage multiple concurrent public relations account teams and programs.
• Serve as day-to-day client contact under senior team account leaders, managing account timelines and budget, leading weekly calls, tactical execution, media relations, and overall day-to-day activities on the account.
• Participate in the development and execution of creative, strategic client public relations programs and campaigns, including budget and KPI tracking.
• Implement core PR campaigns – planning, media strategy/pitching, event management, social media, content writing/editing, research, and account administration.
• Develop communications materials including client-ready documents, strategies, pitches, media lists, press releases, key messages, briefing books, blog posts, external facing press materials and bylined articles.
• Execute strong media relations campaigns while motivating and mentoring junior staff on larger storytelling techniques, expert positioning and reactive media relations. Ensure the team is securing national, trade, and local media placements by proactively researching and pitching compelling story angles.
• Remain proactive on the media front, including but not limited to developing fresh and timely pitch ideas, flagging relevant trends for reactive “news jacking” opportunities.
• Actively build and maintain strong relationships with the media across relevant client verticals and top tier media and/or engaging with new media contacts,
• Support the development of client presentations including new business proposals, annual plans, strategy memos, and KPI/metric reports, 
• Oversees quality development and timely delivery of project trackers, call agendas, action items/recaps, weekly, biweekly, and monthly verbal and other written client reporting.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, marketing, or public relations.
• 4+ years of prior PR experience preferably at a PR agency (Senior Account Executive level or equivalent) working with C-suite level corporate and financial services clients or in-house corporate communications role.
• Strong and effective writing and editing skills.
• High proficiency in verbal communication, and experience in liaising in a client-facing role.
• Possesses strong media relations strategy and storytelling skills.
• Crafts compelling messages that drive business goals and elevate client programs; is a refined communicator.
• Experience working with traditional and social media strategies and campaigns.
• Strong project management skills and the ability to simultaneously manage multiple projects.
• Strong organizational skills and the agility needed to thrive in fast-paced environments.
• Advises and drives results that effectively meet internal and external needs and exceed client expectations.
• Team player who enjoys actively collaborating with teammates and sharing industry knowledge. 
• Has some prior experience supervising and driving high-level thinking among junior public relations staff to ensure a full pipeline of top-tier, trend, and feature stories.
• Displays compassionate and inspiring mentorship skills; counsels junior-level staff in a positive and motivational manner.
• Detail-oriented, deadline-oriented, able to work in a fast-paced, growing environment.

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Salary range is $75,000 -$90,000. The salary will be commensurate with the selected candidate’s experience and dependent upon the workplace. 

To Apply:
Please upload your resume and cover letter and indicate your target salary in US Dollars that aligns with our stated salary range budget. While we appreciate the interest of all candidates, we will only respond to those with whom we have the greatest interest.

About Finn Partners:
FINN Partners was launched in 2011 to realize Peter Finn’s vision to create a leading communications agency dedicated to shaping a bold new future in which innovation and partnership are strong drivers of the brand. Finn Partners specializes in the full spectrum of communications services, including digital and social media. Practice areas include financial services, arts, consumer lifestyle & sports, corporate social responsibility, education, health, manufacturing, technology, travel, and public affairs and more.  We are entrepreneurial-minded, global, and focused on integrated programs that bring to life the world-changing technologies, products, and services of our client partners.  Our company culture celebrates delighting our clients with innovative and creative campaigns and programs, and we provide opportunities for our employees to conduct career-meaningful work in a creative, fast-paced, collaborative, and fun environment. We work hard and play nice.

Headquartered in New York City, the agency has 1,300+ employees with offices in 32 cities around the world: Atlanta, Bangalore, Beijing, Boston, Chicago, Delhi, Denver, Detroit, Dublin, Frankfurt, Fort Lauderdale, Hong Kong, Honolulu, Jerusalem, Kuala Lumpur, London, Los Angeles, Madison (Wisc.), Manila, Mumbai, Munich, Nashville, Paris, Portland (Ore.), San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Shanghai, Singapore, Tamuning (Guam), Vancouver (Wash.) and Washington D.C.