If you are curious about all things business, enjoy networking, finding out how companies are performing and like to travel, then this role should not pass you by.

My client is looking for a journalist who enjoys breaking news, has intellectual curiosity and an interest in large industrial companies and how they operate.

This is a varied role, you could find yourself covering rare metals or geopolitical risk in Africa, along with a lot of granular stories.

Energy and passion are the two things my client is looking for, this is more important than 10 years of experience, but it would be enormously beneficial to have a background in financial and business journalism related to industry, energy or metals.

You will be joining a global publication and working with a team of experienced reporters, so great communication, excellent writing and some editorial skills are all essential for this role.

My client is a highly respected publisher of financial information and analysis on distressed and high yield debt, they are a fast-growing entrepreneurial company that offers great career opportunities and they are looking for a talented financial or legal journalist to join their team to cover alternative investments for an initial one year contract to cover for maternity leave.

The role involves writing about high yield and leveraged loan issues, looking into the borrowers and adding highly valuable detail from contacts in the markets. You will need to have a strong interest and experience in investigative journalism. You will be working with a team of talented and experienced journalists, financial analysts and lawyers to shape content and report on high-yield issuers and European leveraged loan borrowers.

Along with an understanding of the financial markets, and ideally some knowledge of bonds and loans, you will also need to be someone who enjoys networking, building contacts and be able to report on complex financial situations for a corporate investor audience.

This is a great opportunity to join a dynamic company that is growing fast and really values its staff.

Are you an experienced people manager with a background in digital and print business and/or finance publishing?

My client is a highly successful and well established publisher of print and online news and intelligence on the global utilities industry, they have a large global team and are looking for an experienced editorial professional to manage the flow of news and analysis, help train reporters and develop their online offering so it’s more representative of their subscriber needs and gives the potential to create new channels.

It is essential that you have excellent people management skills and the ability train junior staff to produce high quality news and analysis. Because this publication is subscription based there is less of a focus on SEO and more on quality and accuracy of the content, as managing editor it will be your job to get the editorial team working to their optimum, ensuring there is co-operation between staff on sister publications and the team as a whole is more focused on building the online presence of the publication. My client is also looking to the managing editor to help co-ordinate the ongoing development of the publication, along with marketing and other departments, to find ways of exploiting the resources available to grow new channels and build subscriptions. This is in many ways a strategic development role so it’s important that you have a solid understanding of how to make publications work in the digital age for a subscriber audience.

If you are not based in Oxford (but based in the UK) and happy to relocate, my client is willing to help with the cost of moving.

My client is a specialist news and analysis service that focuses on private deals in the international debt markets, you will be speaking to traders and originators to hunt down news on new deals or gossip on the market. Writing a mixture of deal snaps, market news and trend pieces you will be joining a friendly team working on a market leading product. My client is deeply embedded in this market, running a series of global conferences, annual awards and even charity poker nights. So, if you are the kind of journalist who would prefer to hunt down an original story, rather than re-write press releases, then this job could be ideal. Any day’s coverage will reflect what’s going on in the credit, equities, rates, currencies, commodities and inflation markets across the US, Europe and Asia Pacific. The markets you will be covering are at the cutting edge of investors’ efforts to profit from or protect themselves from events and trends – surging oil prices or the sovereign debt crisis for example. You will need to be able to get your head round complex deal structures and understand what drives decisions in this market and you could find your stories picked up by mainstream media such as the FT, Bloomberg and Reuters. This job will suit someone who loves to work in a fast-paced environment, enjoys the interplay of the financial markets and has some knowledge of bonds, plus excellent communication and writing skills.