Financial Translator English & Arabic

London - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Description:

Dow Jones Newswires is seeking a new team member fluent in Arabic and English to join their growing team of linguists and be a key player in ensuring its accuracy while constantly monitoring the quality of our auto-translation model.

The successful candidate will assess and improve the translation from English to Arabic of Dow Jones Newswires financial business and economic news.

Our model is based on Modern Standard Arabic (no dialects). The job holder will be expected to demonstrate strong skills in prompt engineering and experience building glossaries to improve translation consistencies and outcomes.

This is a fixed term contract that requires some weekly onsite work in our London Bridge location.

You Will:

Be responsible for tasks related to R&D and QA for English-to-Arabic autotranslation including:
- Vetting the initial QA results done by our Data Strategy team
- Spot checking autotranslated output on a daily basis
- Implementing correction policy for Arabic products
- Building and maintaining glossaries
- Design test and iteratively refine prompts to continuously enhance the quality accuracy and style of our autotranslated financial news.
- Regularly communicating and sharing ideas with global colleagues to enhance autotranslation quality and work efficiency
- Interacting with different stakeholders (Product Editorial customers and partners)
Map third-party content to enhance the Arabic language offering
Assist with translating pre-defined templates for generating automated content and other translation-related work that may be required by the business

You Have:

A native speaker level of MSA (C2).
A strong understanding of the Middle Eastern culture to ensure appropriateness and cultural compliance.
Demonstrable experience in LQA and Machine Translation Post-Editing (MTPE).
Strong experience using CAT tools - specially for building and implementing glossaries.
An excellent knowledge of financial & economic news & terminology in English and Arabic.
Experience with using machine translation and GenAI.
Preferably some experience in a financial-focused newsroom.

Reasonable accommodation: Dow Jones Making Careers Newsworthy - We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression pregnancy age national origin disability status genetic information protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. EEO/Disabled/Vets. Dow Jones is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application due to a disability email us at Please put Reasonable Accommodation in the subject line and provide a brief description of the type of assistance you need. This inbox will not be monitored for application status updates.

Business Area:

Dow Jones - News - WSJ

Job Category:

Editorial/Journalism

Union Status:

Non-Union role

Job Description:Dow Jones Newswires is seeking a new team member fluent in Arabic and English to join their growing team of linguists and be a key player in ensuring its accuracy while constantly monitoring the quality of our auto-translation model.The successful candidate will assess and improve th...

Job Description:

The successful candidate will assess and improve the translation from English to Arabic of Dow Jones Newswires financial business and economic news.

This is a fixed term contract that requires some weekly onsite work in our London Bridge location.

You Will:

Be responsible for tasks related to R&D and QA for English-to-Arabic autotranslation including:
- Vetting the initial QA results done by our Data Strategy team
- Spot checking autotranslated output on a daily basis
- Implementing correction policy for Arabic products
- Building and maintaining glossaries
- Design test and iteratively refine prompts to continuously enhance the quality accuracy and style of our autotranslated financial news.
- Regularly communicating and sharing ideas with global colleagues to enhance autotranslation quality and work efficiency
- Interacting with different stakeholders (Product Editorial customers and partners)
Map third-party content to enhance the Arabic language offering
Assist with translating pre-defined templates for generating automated content and other translation-related work that may be required by the business

You Have:

A native speaker level of MSA (C2).
A strong understanding of the Middle Eastern culture to ensure appropriateness and cultural compliance.
Demonstrable experience in LQA and Machine Translation Post-Editing (MTPE).
Strong experience using CAT tools - specially for building and implementing glossaries.
An excellent knowledge of financial & economic news & terminology in English and Arabic.
Experience with using machine translation and GenAI.
Preferably some experience in a financial-focused newsroom.

Business Area:

Dow Jones - News - WSJ

Job Category:

Editorial/Journalism

Union Status:

Non-Union role

Key Skills

Arabic Speaking
Accomodation
Business Analysis
Back Office Support
Brand

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