The Role
We need a heavyweight Finished Artist who lives and breathes long-form documents. This isn’t a role for a generalist; you need to love the precision, speed, and strict attention to detail that high-end corporate reporting demands.
This requires someone who can pivot quickly between projects while maintaining absolute precision, speed, and strict attention to detail across every asset.
Key Responsibilities & Required Skills
Because annual reports are a unique beast, we are looking for a specialist who brings the following to the table:
- Advanced Style Sheets & Text Flow: Absolute mastery of InDesign style sheets (including character, paragraph, and nested styles) to maintain flawless brand consistency across multiple separate documents.
- Tracked Changes & Text Updates: Deeply familiar with the realities of corporate client edits. You must be highly proficient at executing rapid-fire updates in InDesign directly from heavily tracked Word documents.
- Data & Graph Creation: Beyond just cleaning up files, you have the ability to build accurate graphs and charts from scratch within Adobe Illustrator using raw client data.
- Interactivity: Experience building digital-ready documents, utilizing InDesign’s interactive features (hyperlinks, bookmarks, navigation) for final digital PDF delivery.
- Agility & Version Control: Smaller jobs mean faster moving parts. You must have an eagle eye for detail and a bulletproof system for managing updates across concurrent projects.
- Timing: You must be fully available for the duration of July (expecting 20–30 hours per week).
- June/August: Ideally, you have the capacity to pick up a day or two in late June for onboarding/kick-off, and early August for wrap-up.
- Setup: The client prefers a hybrid approach. You’ll need the flexibility to work in-house at their inner south-east studio for the initial stages of the project to get aligned with the team, with the option for off-site/remote work as the project progresses.
If you are an annual report specialist who thrives on structure, logic, and beautiful typography, we want to hear from you.
When applying, please also let us know your typical baseline speed/capacity (approx. pages per hour) when typesetting financial statements.
Please apply with your current CV and a folio showcasing examples of long-form documents, financial tables, or corporate reporting projects you have successfully delivered.
Please note, while we would love to be able to get back to everyone, we will only respond to shortlisted applicants. We are only keen to hear from people who are Australian Residents or who have the appropriate Australian Working VISAs. Sadly, we won't be able to assist people based outside of Australia. A periodic rate of pay applies for this role. To help manage applications please no phone calls or DMs; apply here.
