Bankrate.com seeks personal finance reporter

Bankrate.com is seeking an experienced personal finance reporter to cover consumer banking for its website.

The position can be in Chicago, Washington DC, New York City or North Palm Beach Florida. The reporter must have experience writing for consumers and must clearly understand and closely follow the banking industry, consumer banking products and the regulations that impact the industry. The ideal candidate thinks beyond the news, homing in on how the news and trends will affect consumers.

The banking beat encompasses topics such as checking and savings accounts, debit and check cards, CDs and money market accounts.. The ideal candidate will be a first-class journalist with excellent reporting and writing skills, have experience writing for web and mobile-web audiences, will be active in social media and have knowledge of SEO. The candidate will have experience as a media spokesperson.

We expect the reporter to develop story ideas and write content, respond quickly to events in the marketplace, understand how that news affects consumers, have an established group of sources, be familiar with personal finance issues and to represent Bankrate as a banking analyst to other media.

Responsibilities

• Actively follow the banking industry and cultivate relationships and sources.
• Identify and write consumer banking content in story form, blog form and other mediums for the website and mobile-web.
• Continuously identify new trends.
• Be engaged in social media, staying current with trends in social media as it relates to producing content.
• Collaborate with other teams to identify interactive story-telling formats.
• Understand SEO value and employ best practices for SEO.
• Represent Bankrate as a spokesperson to other media.

Qualifications

• 3+ years digital media/online reporting experience.
• Knowledgeable of banking industry.
• Thorough understanding of personal finance.
• 3-5 years’ experience as a reporter/writer.
• Strong knowledge of AP style.
• Experience with basic HTML and web-based CMS.
• College degree preferably in journalism or business.

Please send your resume and salary requirement to resume@bankrate.com .