Breaking News Reporter

Australian Financial Markets Association

To advance Australia's financial markets

The Australian Financial Markets Association (AFMA) is the leading industry association promoting efficiency, integrity and professionalism in Australia's financial markets – including the capital, credit, derivatives, foreign exchange, energy and other specialist markets. Our role is to provide a forum for industry leadership and to advance the operation of markets and their respective users and participants. AFMA represents over 125 industry participants in wholesale banking and financial markets, including Australian and foreign banks, securities companies, state government treasury corporations, fund managers, energy firms and other specialised markets and industry service providers. AFMA members are the leading participants in Australia's dynamic exchange and OTC financial markets.

The primary responsibility of the Breaking News Reporter will be to run our Need to Know blog. This will include quickly writing accurate, concise, compelling posts that conform to house style, working angles and headlines hard, and selecting interesting imagery and graphics to ensure the blog not only reads well, but looks great too.

• 💡 Generate and Source Stories
  

  Develop and share story ideas and to develop those stories into finished products

• 📄 News Reporting
  

  Write and report on news stories that are accurate, clear, and engaging to their audiences

• 🔎 Research and Investigation
  

  Gather and evaluate information from various sources, including interviews, public records, and online research

• 📊 Results orientation
  

  Focuses on outcomes and the steps it takes to achieve them

• ✍🏼 Written communication
  

  Writes in a clear and structured format to convey information and ideas effectively to a target audience

• 🛎 Service orientation
  

  Actively seeks and develops strategies to help key stakeholders