Title: Financial Sub Editor, Arabic
Description
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We are seeking an experienced journalist to join a growing team of business news reporters and desk editors on Thomson Reuters Cairo-based Arabic news service and help increase our production of Arabic financial news. The successful candidate must be able to provide speedy and accurate Arabic translation of Reuters news items from English. He/she will play a key role in building up the Arabic equities and treasury news file to enable Reuters to successfully target Arabic-reading financial professionals as part of plans to expand Reuters Middle East coverage. The job will also require performing original reporting and other newsroom duties like research and media monitoring. Occasional translation from Arabic into English may also be required. He/she should have a track record in translating company, stock markets and macroeconomic news, and must have the flexibility to adapt to new formats of news delivery and news presentation. Excellent financial news judgment, proven writing skills and a competitive spirit are essential.
Qualifications
• Excellent Arabic financial reporting and writing skills
• At least three-year experience translating financial news from English into Arabic, preferably with a financial news service.
• Good team working skills
• Excellent English
• Strong news judgment
• Flexibility in addressing client needs
• Ability to work well under pressure in different shifts
• Initiative
Thomson Reuters employees take pride in providing our customers around the world with information that is timely, accurate, unbiased and trusted. We have a profound respect for the professions and customers we serve and define our success in terms of their success. Our work environment is dynamic, innovative and entrepreneurial. We have a result-oriented culture that demands excellence, agility, and the desire to move quickly and precisely to seize opportunities. Our environment is both challenging and supportive - we give employees the opportunity to develop their skills and do their best work.
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