Job Description
We’re looking for a talented Content Writer to join our dynamic team and help us educate, inspire, and engage our audience. The Content Writer’s key role is to write news, articles, content and analysis for the AJ Bell website to help increase engagement with customers and prospective customers.
As a Content Writer, you will play a pivotal role in crafting compelling, accurate, and engaging content that aligns with our brand voice and supports our mission to simplify investing for everyone. You will collaborate with various teams, including marketing, PR and product, to create high-quality content that resonates with our audience and drives user engagement.
What does the job involve?
- Research, write and edit a variety of content for retail investor audience
- Write top-quality copy to deadlines
- Simplify complex investment concepts into easy-to-understand language for diverse audiences
- Optimise content for SEO to increase organic visibility and traffic
- Stay up to date with industry trends, market developments and financial news to ensure timely and relevant content
- Maintain and adhere to the brand’s tone, style, and content guidelines
- Formulate new content ideas that are in line with AJ Bell’s business objectives
- Analyse content performance metrics and use insights to refine strategies and improve engagement.
- Potential to contribute to the AJ Bell podcasts, videos and webinars, where required
- Support and enable the business to deliver good outcomes for retail customers by helping achieve any regulatory requirements, including consumer duty
What you'll have:
- Proven experience as a Content Writer, preferably in the finance or investment sector. This role may suit someone looking for their second role in the industry.
- Understanding of financial industry, including pensions, ISAs, funds, investing and personal finance.
- Strong writing, editing, and proofreading skills with a keen eye for detail.
- Knowledge of SEO best practices and experience using metric tools is desirable but not necessary.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
About us:
AJ Bell is one of the fastest-growing investment platform businesses in the UK offering an award-winning range of solutions that caters for everyone, from professional financial advisers, to DIY investors with little to no experience. We have over 542,000 customers using our award-winning platform propositions to manage assets totalling more than £86.5 billion. Our customers trust us with their investments, and by continuously striving to make investing easier, we aim to help even more people take control of their financial futures.
Having listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange in December 2018, AJ Bell is now a FTSE 250 company.
Headquartered in Manchester with offices in central London and Bristol, we now have over 1,450 employees and have been named one of the UK's 'Best 100 Companies to Work For’ for six consecutive years and in 2024 named a Great Place to Work®.
At AJ Bell you can expect a friendly working environment with a strong sense of teamwork, we have a great sense of pride in what we do, and this is reflected in our guiding principles.
What we offer:
- Competitive starting salary
- Generous holiday allowance of 25 days, increasing up to 31 days with length of service
- Holiday buy and sell scheme
- A choice of pension schemes with matched contributions up to 8%
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Annual free share awards scheme
- Buy As You Earn (BAYE) Scheme
- Health Cash Plan – provided by SimplyHealth
- Discounted private healthcare scheme and dental plan
- Free gym membership
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Bike loan scheme
- Sick pay+ pledge
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave
- Loans for travel season tickets
- Death in service scheme
- Paid time off for volunteer work
- Charitable giving opportunities through salary sacrifice
- Calendar of social events, including monthly payday drinks, annual Christmas party, summer party and much more
- Personal development programmes built around you and your career goals, including access to personal skills workshops
- Ongoing technical training
- Professional qualification support
- Talent development programmes
- Peer recognition scheme, with rewards including restaurant and shopping vouchers or time off
- Monthly leadership breakfasts and lunches
- Casual dress code
- Access to a range of benefits from our sponsorship deals
Hybrid working:
At AJ Bell, our people are the heart of our culture. We believe in building strong connections by working together. That's why we offer a hybrid working model, where you’ll spend a minimum of 50% of your working time per month in the office. For new team members, an initial period will be full-time in the office to help you immerse yourself in our business and build valuable relationships with your colleagues.
AJ Bell is committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and all employees are empowered to bring their whole self to work.
We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, pregnancy, religion, physical and mental disability, marital status and any other characteristics protected by the Equality Act 2010. All decisions to hire are based on qualifications, merit and business need.
If you like the sound of the above, or just want to know more about the company and the role, we'd love to speak to you.
