Senior Associate, External Communications in London

About LSEG

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business committed to excellence in delivering services to our customers. With extensive experience and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. We have contributed to supporting financial stability and growth for over 300 years.

What You'll Be Doing

The successful candidate will support the development and implementation of our Group communications programme with a focus on media relations. They will actively seek opportunities to promote the Group, its business divisions, products and services in the media, and build understanding of what we do. The individual will provide media relations advice to leaders across the business and build positive relationships. They will act as a spokesperson for LSEG and help coordinate PR activities such as drafting press releases, FAQs, key messages, by‑lined articles and other written materials to a high standard. They will collaborate with colleagues worldwide to ensure media enquiries are handled efficiently and help manage any reactive issues. The individual will have experience working to short timeframes and be able to organise workloads accordingly. They are encouraged to partner with others to develop innovative approaches and work together to deliver better outcomes. They will maintain good relationships with journalists and adapt the message to suit different audiences. They will work closely and collaboratively with other teams within LSEG—including Internal Communications, Government Relations and Regulatory Strategy, Marketing, Investor Relations, Legal and People—to deliver a coordinated communications approach.

What You'll Bring

Demonstrated track record in PR/communications with experience operating in a fast‑paced environment, either in a PR agency or an in‑house team. Strong media relations experience focused on financial and business media. Interest in best practice use cases and knowledge of internal or external business issues to improve processes.

Career Stage

Senior Associate

Working with LSEG means you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. Our purpose is to drive financial stability, empower economies and enable customers to create sustainable growth. Our values—Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change—guide every decision and action. We are an equal opportunities employer. We do not discriminate on any protected characteristic and we accommodate religious, mental health or physical disability needs as required by law. Benefits include healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.