Distressed Editor - 6 month FTC

9fin

About 9fin 9fin is the AI platform powering global debt markets — the world’s largest asset class at over $145 trillion. Debt markets are vast, global, and mission-critical, yet still run on fragmented data, PDFs, and manual workflows. 9fin replaces this broken infrastructure with a single platform that centralises proprietary credit data, deep analysis, and high-value workflows across global markets. Today, 9fin powers teams at 300+ blue-chip institutions worldwide, including global banks, asset managers, private equity firms, law firms, and advisors. The business is scaling at exceptional speed, with rapid expansion in the US and best-in-class retention driven by deep workflow adoption. We’re at a defining inflection point. With proven product-market fit and strong, global market pull, 9fin is accelerating toward becoming the category-defining platform for debt markets worldwide. THE OPPORTUNITY We’re looking for an ambitious, relationship-driven data journalist to maintain our best in market coverage of the $1 trillion+ CLO market, based in New York. This is a front-line analytical role in one of the most sophisticated and fast-moving areas of credit. You’ll be embedded in the market, speaking daily with the CLO market and producing analysis heavy content backed by data. Success in this role depends on your ability to work with large datasets, maintain strong relationships, and turn insight into analytical and trend coverage. You should be energised by meeting people, comfortable engaging senior market participants, and motivated by working with data. Just as importantly, you’re collaborative, generous with colleagues, and someone who contributes positively to a team environment. The role is New York–based and includes opportunities to travel for industry conferences. WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON Every day is different, but here’s an example of the kind of things you’ll work on: * Identifying trends – You’ll regularly find trends by speaking to the market and backing those findings with data * Feature writing – You’ll identify emerging trends in issuance, pricing, structuring, and investor activity with monthly long form data trend pieces * Monitoring markets – You’ll expand your knowledge and connect the dots with the wider debt market to collaborate with colleagues across verticals in distressed debt, leveraged finance, and private credit. * Maintaining databases – You’ll work closely with the CLO data team to source private information from the market and contribute in expansions to new datasets. * Generate ideas and deliver clear, concise reporting under deadline pressure ABOUT YOU This role will be a great fit if you: * Experienced – 2+ years of experience in financial journalism. Experience with structured credit or debt capital markets is a strong positive but not essential. * Personable – A natural ability to connect with a wide range of sophisticated market participants. Confident in engaging senior investors, bankers, and asset managers * Driven — Endlessly curious, self-motivated, and passionate about doing a good job * Organised — Able to maintain a deep network of sources, stay on top of story pipeline, and deadlines * Communicative — Clear and concise in your written and verbal language, and able to explain complex ideas in simple terms * Analytical - Comfortable handling large datasets to help draw conclusions, and have a proficiency in excel and PowerBI OUR BENEFITS We’re a scaling start up and we enjoy sharing our success, when the company succeeds, we always reinvest that in our people. We also offer huge amounts of responsibility, an abundance of opportunity for growth and a platform to truly excel. Financial & Insurance * Competitive Salary: $100,000 - $140,000 (our salary bands are benchmarked at 75-90th percentile of market) * 401(k) (9fin pay 3%, employee contributions are uncapped) * Private Health Insurance, with Dental and Vision * Paid sick leave * Disability Insurance (New York) * Commuter Benefit Time off * 25 vacation days per year * Local public holiday * Hybrid working model, to allow you the flexibility to decide how, where and when you do your best work * Work abroad for up to 3 months a year * 1 month paid sabbatical after 5 years of service * Enhanced parental leave & flexible working arrangements available Training & Culture * Professional learning and development budget * AI experimentation budget of $1,000 per employee to trial AI tools * Bi-annual team socials * Summer and Winter company social events 9fin is an equal opportunities employer At 9fin we are dedicated to building and promoting a fair and inclusive workplace where everyone can reach their full potential and truly belong. We recognize that building diverse teams enables a more creative and productive environment. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be who we’re looking for — either for this role, or perhaps another.

9fin

About 9fin 9fin is the AI platform powering global debt markets — the world’s largest asset class at over $145 trillion. Debt markets are vast, global, and mission-critical, yet still run on fragmented data, PDFs, and manual workflows. 9fin replaces this broken infrastructure with a single platform that centralises proprietary credit data, deep analysis, and high-value workflows across global markets. Today, 9fin powers teams at 300+ blue-chip institutions worldwide, including global banks, asset managers, private equity firms, law firms, and advisors. The business is scaling at exceptional speed, with rapid expansion in the US and best-in-class retention driven by deep workflow adoption. We’re at a defining inflection point. With proven product-market fit and strong, global market pull, 9fin is accelerating toward becoming the category-defining platform for debt markets worldwide. WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON You'll be embedded with our content team, working directly with editors to turn engagement and coverage data into the decisions that shape what we publish. Sitting within the analytics team alongside our analysts and analytics engineers, you'll own content analytics end-to-end, from instrumentation through to the insight that changes editorial strategy. * Build engagement measurement beyond readership. Define and instrument the signals that reveal an article's true value; time on page, scroll depth, click-through. * Separate genuine engagement from passing interest. Build tag-effectiveness analysis and LLM-based content classification so editors can see what actually resonates. * Measure core and public audiences. Quantify engagement for our core subscriber base (client value) and broader public reach (demand generation), across content, social and video. * Power data-driven coverage prioritisation. Surface the highest-attention companies and situations so editorial resource hits the most contentious, market-moving stories. * Track competitive coverage and story attribution. Monitor coverage gaps, timeliness and accuracy versus competitors, and attribute market-moving stories to 9fin. * Explain what's moving the numbers. Diagnose spike drivers and build reproducible analysis frameworks rather than one-off dashboards. * Own content datasets and the semantic layer. Author dbt models on BigQuery and own the Omni semantic layer so the newsroom gets fast, trustworthy, self-serve answers. * Be the embedded analytical partner to the newsroom. Work directly with editors, translating content questions into analysis that shapes editorial strategy and helps us build a better distressed product than the competition. ABOUT YOU You're a senior, hands-on individual contributor with real technical depth who's excited to sit inside a newsroom and use data to shape what gets covered and how. * Proven analytics experience, ideally in media, B2B SaaS or fintech, owning analysis end-to-end and driving real decisions. * Expert SQL for complex analysis, optimisation and reusable datasets. * dbt & a cloud data warehouse (BigQuery, Snowflake or similar) — commercial experience building production models, tests and docs. * Modern BI with an integrated semantic layer — building self-serve dashboards and owning metric definitions (e.g. Omni, Looker, Thoughtspot). * Engagement and event analytics — designing tracking/instrumentation and analysing behavioural signals, with the statistical judgement to separate signal from noise. * Fluent with AI tools — building LLM-based pipelines to classify and analyse content at scale. * A strong communicator who turns analysis into clear narratives editors and leadership can act on. * Curious and a fast learner — comfortable grasping distressed-market concepts within a few explanations; a background blending data and storytelling is a real plus. * Finance or distressed-debt knowledge is a plus, not essential. * Bonus: content, web, SEO, social or audience/growth analytics; Python for deeper analysis. OUR BENEFITS We’re a scaling start up, and we enjoy sharing our success, when the company succeeds, we always reinvest that in our people. We also offer huge amounts of responsibility, an abundance of opportunity for growth and a platform to truly excel. Financial & Insurance * Competitive Salary (our salary bands are benchmarked at the top end of the market) * Equity options * Pension (your minimum contributions are 4% with 9fin matching up to 7%) * Private Medical Insurance * Paid sick leave with Income Protection for long periods of illness * Group Life Assurance * Season Ticket Loan & Cycle to Work schemes Time off * 25 holiday days per year * Local public holidays (with the ability to exchange them for alternative days) * Hybrid working model, to allow you the flexibility to decide how, where and when you do your best work * Work abroad for up to 3 months a year * 1 month paid sabbatical after 5 years of service * Enhanced parental leave & flexible working arrangements available Training & Culture * Professional learning and development budget * Quarterly team socials * Summer and Winter company social events 9fin is an equal opportunities employer At 9fin we are dedicated to building and promoting a fair and inclusive workplace where everyone can reach their full potential and truly belong. We recognize that building diverse teams enables a more creative and productive environment. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be who we’re looking for — either for this role, or perhaps another.

9fin

About 9fin 9fin is the AI platform powering global debt markets — the world’s largest asset class at over $145 trillion. Debt markets are vast, global, and mission-critical, yet still run on fragmented data, PDFs, and manual workflows. 9fin replaces this broken infrastructure with a single platform that centralises proprietary credit data, deep analysis, and high-value workflows across global markets. Today, 9fin powers teams at 300+ blue-chip institutions worldwide, including global banks, asset managers, private equity firms, law firms, and advisors. The business is scaling at exceptional speed, with rapid expansion in the US and best-in-class retention driven by deep workflow adoption. We’re at a defining inflection point. With proven product-market fit and strong, global market pull, 9fin is accelerating toward becoming the category-defining platform for debt markets worldwide. THE OPPORTUNITY 9fin is seeking a reporter to join our European team covering the distressed debt and restructuring market. We’re looking for a scoop-driven journalist who will relish the opportunity to delve into all of the fascinating stories of restructuring and distressed companies across the UK and Europe. If you can follow this fast-paced market while maintaining best-in-class editorial standards and collaborating with our team of reporters, analysts, and lawyers, we want to work with you. WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON Every day is different, but here’s an example of the kind of things you’ll work on: * Breaking news — You’ll regularly break stories on what’s going on in distressed debt, from deteriorating company earnings all the way to messy out-of-court restructurings * Feature-writing — You’ll know when to pull the trigger on longer-form articles that connect the dots between daily news and broader market trends * Generating ideas — You’ll provide a consistent stream of new ideas, whether that’s identifying new situations to cover, or thinking up new ways to cover them * Monitoring markets — You’ll learn to harness our technology to identify new opportunities, ensuring that 9fin’s coverage of the distressed market is timely and comprehensive ABOUT YOU This role will be a great fit if you are: * Experienced — 2+ year of finance reporting experience, preferably on distressed debt markets * Personable — Inquisitive and outgoing, always making new connections and sharing ideas * Organised — Able to maintain a deep network of sources, stay on top of story pipeline and deadlines * Communicative — Clear and concise in your written and verbal language, and able to explain complex ideas in simple terms * Driven — Endlessly curious, self-motivated, and passionate about doing a good job * Fluent in German or French would be an added plus Benefits We’re a scaling start up, and we enjoy sharing our success, when the company succeeds, we always reinvest that in our people. We also offer huge amounts of responsibility, an abundance of opportunity for growth and a platform to truly excel. Financial & Insurance * Competitive Salary (our salary bands are benchmarked at the top end of the market) * Equity * Pension (your minimum contributions are 4% with 9fin matching up to 7%) * Private Medical Insurance * Paid sick leave with Income Protection for long periods of illness * Group Life Assurance * Season Ticket Loan & Cycle to Work schemes Time off * 25 holiday days per year * Local public holidays (with the ability to exchange them for alternative days) * Hybrid working model, to allow you the flexibility to decide how, where and when you do your best work * Work abroad for up to 3 months a year * 1 month paid sabbatical after 5 years of service * Enhanced parental leave & flexible working arrangements available Training & Culture * Professional learning and development budget * AI experimentation budget of £800 (UK) per employee to trial AI tools * Quarterly team socials * Summer and Winter company social events 9fin is an equal opportunities employer At 9fin we are dedicated to building and promoting a fair and inclusive workplace where everyone can reach their full potential and truly belong. We recognize that building diverse teams enables a more creative and productive environment. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be who we’re looking for — either for this role, or perhaps another.