Hi, I am currently working as Senior News Writer at Qineqt Inc.
For above nine years I have been connected with S&P Global Market Intelligence, a financial services sector multinational company, and worked in different positions such as Financial News Writer, Financial News Analyst, Client Support Representative, and as Department Manager.
I am interested in offering my services in the Administrative activities, Operations Management, Client Support, and Writing/Editing based on my up to the mark expertise in these areas.
* Responsible for the timely coverage of proprietary news in the Financial Services sector.
* Supervised the team’s daily performance and activities in line with departmental goals.
* Searching different sites on a daily basis to look for minute-to-minute updates in the Financial Services sector.
* Responsible for covering breaking news related to covered companies.
* Select topics for the relevant news coverage.
* Possesses knowledge of Internal Applications required to perform the job.
* Possesses knowledge of internal applications and problem solving resources.
* Aids with the management of department workflow, including the prioritization and allocation of daily workflow.
* Supervised the News’ Client Support Services day-to-day activities to make sure the News staff’s frequent responses to client queries as well as endorsing the company’s philosophy of accuracy, transparency and ownership
* Actively monitors and communicates progress towards Department goals.
* Provides input and ideas for procedures, new collection methods and product enhancements.
* Provides training, ongoing coaching and feedback to department staff. Works with staff to prioritize workflow and solve problems.
* Building strong collaboration and communication skills among the team members when interacting within the group or with other team members or group within SNL.
* Communicates regularly with department management and staff in multiple office locations regarding workflow plans.
* Circulating monthly progress report to the business unit leadership on the team’s performance on timeliness, accuracy and productivity.
* Assists with leading department meetings and answers department’s content-specific questions.
* Builds and maintains relationships with contact from other departments to actively track information on the covered content sets.
* Review issues from other departments related to the quality or availability of translated documents; work with the necessary parties to help address issues/correct errors and establish or refine procedures and processes to address quantity or quality issues.
* Supports the operations manager with the development of department goals and manages the performance appraisal process for direct reports.
*Provided active support to the senior management in the department's hiring process i.e. conducting test and interviews of the hiring candidates.
* Writing and editing abstracts/articles, freelance articles, containing financial news.
* Searching different sites for relevant Industry news vetting related to the companies that SNL Financial covers.
* Helping Copy Desk in correcting grammatical and structural mistakes in articles and abstracts.
* As part of SNL's Newsroom we are responsible for two broad mandates—ensuring comprehensive coverage of all the sectors covered by SNL as a whole, and ensuring relevant, proprietary coverage of those sectors.
* On the comprehensive side, SNL News prides itself on ensuring that every piece of published information on the companies or pertaining to the sector has at least some mention in our news archives.
* On the relevance side, SNL reporters and editors are constantly publishing proprietary reporting that seeks to add insight to the main stories of the day. Same reporters and editors are also aggressively seeking to be the first to break big stories in their sectors.
Served as Lecturer in English and taught English Compulsory to Intermediate level classes and Functional English to students as part of the College Inter and Graduate level programs.
Taught English to Enter level students.
* Worked as an Editor for ABASIN, Pushto magazine released by PID under Ministry of Information, government of Pakistan, for 10 months.
Taught English course books and Grammar to Matric and Intermediate level classes.