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Octus

Octus is a leading global provider of credit intelligence, data, and analytics. Since 2013, tens of thousands of professionals across hedge fund, investment banking, management consulting, and law firm verticals have come to rely on Octus to make better, faster, and more confident decisions in pace with the fast-moving credit markets.
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Working at Octus

Octus hires growth-minded innovators and trailblazers across the globe to drive our business and culture. Our core values – Action Oriented, Customer First Mindset, Effective Team Players, and Driven to Excel – define an organizational ethos that’s as high-performing as it is human. Among other perks, Octus employees enjoy competitive health benefits, matched 401k and pension plans, PTO, generous parental leave, gym subsidies, educational reimbursements for career development, recognition programs, and much more.

Role

We are looking for a seasoned copy editor who has experience editing complex stories on corporate finance and distressed debt situations in the United States, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. As copyeditor, you’ll be responsible for covering editing needs for our technical, legal, and market-based stories. You’ll provide support to editorial operations, staff writers, and journalists as needed. This role requires overnight hours, from 9pm - 6am PKT, with the possibility of shifting hours later next year as editorial objectives evolve.

The ideal candidate will have wire service, newsroom or similar experience, know or be able to efficiently learn our subject matter, and possess the ability to quickly make concise stories from complex information. Speed, accuracy and strong news judgment are critical to this role. Prior experience in structural editing is required. The candidate must be an excellent communicator, confidently work across different teams, and adapt quickly as editorial objectives evolve.

This is an excellent opportunity to be part of a dynamic global organization, working to help shape content with experienced financial journalists, analysts, and lawyers, and editorial operations.

Responsibilities

Deliver high-volume copy editing of analyst stories and long-form analysis, enforcing AP and Octus style, grammar, formatting and factual accuracy
Adopt Octus’s editorial standards, workflows, and internal tools (CMS, Monday.com, AI tools) with ease
When needed, provide line editing on reporter stories: shaping story structure, narrative flow, argument coherence and contextual accuracy for sophisticated financial subscribers
This includes making editorial judgment calls on story completeness, sourcing standards and post-publication corrections
Over time, you’ll work closely with reporters, analysts and subject matter experts to strengthen content, ask the right questions and push back when stories fall short
Manage publishing workflows in the CMS, ensuring content is accurate and delivered on deadline
Provide regional crossover support to other editors as required and an “edit anything from anywhere” mindset

Requirements

Impeccable attention to detail and first-rate editing skills
Excellent writing, time management and communication skills
Ability to manage and prioritize numerous articles simultaneously while working to tight deadlines
Strong news sense, with knowledge in financial news and markets
Ability to work accurately at speed and under pressure
Excellent written English
Covering shift work during the week, occasionally working unsociable hours to ensure we publish news in a timely manner. Hours will be 9pm PKT - 6am PKT.
Candidates must have a minimum of five years’ professional editing experience for a global business organization.
Experience building or refining prompts or AI-assisted checklists for editorial workflows, and an interest in automating repetitive publishing tasks.

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