Reporter, Business

The SCMP Business desk covers a wide range of business themes across Asia, focusing on Mainland China and Hong Kong: banking and finance, markets, industries, real estate. The team has reporters in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hong Kong and London. 

• Deliver the best finance news coverage from Asia's most important financial market for a global readership.
• Plan, prepare, and organize different packages of medium- and long-term story ideas, based on your own reporting and interviews by our entire team of reporters.
• Spot trends and get the stories behind the news and behind the personalities driving China Inc.
• Be familiar with business news coverage, from commodities to financial markets.

• Degree holder with 2-5 years’ reporting experience, and with a proven track record of delivering exclusives and deep analysis on Chinese companies and financial markets.

• Must be able to conduct an interview in Mandarin, Cantonese, and English, and be able to read a document written in Chinese.

• Familiarity with business and data-based reporting, including the ability to read financial statements, stock exchange filings, shareholders' notes, stock prices, analysts' reports, and rating statements.

• Top-notch English writing skills and the ability to deliver to the deadline are absolute musts.

• Good knowledge of the economies of Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, as well as the companies that operate in the region.

• Able to work with our online news organization that also publishes a daily newspaper; ideally have some experience straddling the two formats.

• Self-starting professional and team player, willing to pitch in where needed and take on any task.

The work location should be in Hong Kong

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