PR Account Manager (financial Services)

PR Account Manager (Financial Services)

Location: London (Chancery Lane)

Working Pattern: Full time, hybrid working (3 days in office, 2 days from home)

Role overview

At Grayling, you'll be part of one of the UK's most respected integrated communications agencies, working at the heart of financial and reputational change. We offer a supportive and ambitious culture where your ideas are heard, your growth is championed, and your work has real impact.

We're looking for a driven and capable PR Account Manager to join our growing Financial Services team at Grayling UK. This is a fantastic opportunity for a communications professional ready to take the next step in managing day-to-day account activity, building trusted client relationships, and delivering outstanding work across corporate communications, thought leadership, executive visibility, and issues support.

You'll work across a mix of clients; from established financial institutions to innovative fintechs and be exposed to some of the most relevant and reputationally significant topics shaping the sector.

What you'll be doing

• Manage the day-to-day delivery of account activity across multiple financial services clients.
• Act as a key point of contact for client teams, supporting regular comms, coordination, and workflow.
• Draft high-quality materials including press releases, briefing notes, Q&As, social copy, and thought leadership.
• Support the development of client-ready decks, proposals and campaign materials with clarity, structure, and polish.
• Secure media coverage by building journalist relationships, selling in stories, and monitoring the news agenda.
• Contribute to the planning and execution of integrated campaigns across earned, owned and shared channels.
• Help monitor client sectors for relevant news, risks, and opportunities bringing fresh insight to your teams.
• Support account admin including reporting, timelines, status updates, and budget tracking.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues across Grayling's creative, digital, public affairs and international teams.

What will give you the edge

• Proven experience in PR and communications (ideally from an agency environment), with some experience in or exposure to financial services, fintech or regulated sectors.
• A solid understanding of media relations, content development and stakeholder communications.
• Excellent written skills and attention to detail, with the ability to craft clear, compelling content across formats.
• Experience producing client-facing decks, proposals and materials that are well-structured and insight-led.
• Confident working directly with clients, with a proactive and solutions-focused mindset.
• Highly organised, with the ability to manage multiple deadlines and priorities at once.
• A collaborative team player who's eager to learn and grow in a fast-paced agency environment.

Our promises to you

• Flexible working arrangements, including hybrid working & flexi time and 4pm Friday finishes
• 25 days' holiday, increasing by one day every year up to 30 days
• Additional day of leave on your birthday
• Gifted time off over Christmas
• A monthly cash allowance to use on the benefits most important to you. Whether it's subscribing to services like Netflix, dental insurance or gym membership, you'll have the freedom to choose how you enjoy it!
• Enhanced family-friendly policies
• Free subscription to Calm app
• Free breakfasts & fruit
• An abundance of personal development opportunities, through our internal training programmes
• New business and employee referral bonuses
• Interest-free season ticket loan & Railcard reimbursement
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme offering a 24/7 confidential advice line
• Life assurance

Get to know us

Grayling is the UK's best-connected communications agency, working across Consumer, Corporate, and Public Affairs. With nine UK offices and 20+ worldwide, we help brands make an impact through smart thinking, cultural insights, and creative ideas.

We've been on a huge journey the last year and have just been shortlisted for PRWeek UK's brand-new People and Places Awards 2025.

Our commitment at Grayling is to combine our employees' unique backgrounds, perspectives and experiences to build a more diverse and inclusive organisation that represents all of us and the businesses we work with. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and will consider all applicants regardless of age, gender identity, ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, family or parental status, neurodiversity and disability status. If you need any adjustments during the application process, we're here to help - just let us know.