Role Summary
The Commission and Fees Administration Specialist is a member of the day-to-day Operations team.
Overview of Marex/Department description
Marex has unique access across markets with significant share globally both on and off exchange. The depth of knowledge amongst its teams and divisions provides its customers with clear advantage, and its technology-led service provides access to all major exchanges, order-flow management via screen, voice and DMA, plus award-winning data, insights, and analytics.
Overall Responsibilities
- Independently work with Investment Bankers and Traders for daily adding, changing, and deleting of commissions and fees with the ability to analyze the changes and adjust the accounts accordingly.
- Own daily posting of commission and fee adjustments.
- Ensure membership setups are appropriately kept up in the Fees Direct System.
- Collaborate with New Accounts department daily to set up new client commission and fee rates in the Fees Direct System.
- Investigate issues by following trades from beginning to end to find where the discrepancy lies.
- Work with Balancing department on commission and fee charges for transfers.
- Read and understand fees schedules from the US and various foreign exchanges.
- Ensuring compliance with the company’s regulatory requirements under the SEC, FINRA, NFA, CFTC and other applicable exchanges.
- Adhere to the operational risk framework for your role ensuring that all regulatory or company determined parameters are complied with.
- Role model for demonstrating highest level standards of integrity and conduct and reflecting Company Values.
- At all times complying with Marex’s Code of Conduct
- To ensure that you are fully aware of and adhere to internal policies that relate to you, your role, or any other activities for which you have any level of responsibility
- To report any breaches of policy to Compliance and/ or your supervisor as required
- To escalate risk events immediately
- To provide input to risk management processes, as required.
The Company may require you to carry out other duties from time to time
Competencies, Skills, and Experience
Competencies
- Demonstrates curiosity
- Resilient in a challenging, fast-paced environment
- Ability to take a high level of responsibility in a fast pace and high-volume environment
- Ability to work independently and proactively take ownership of tasks and processes yet understand when to escalate an issue
- Excels at building relationships, networking and influencing others
- Strategic collaborator with insight and agility, able to anticipate future challenges, ensuring operational effectiveness
Skills and Experience
- Minimum of 3 years of exposure to the commodities industry required
- An associate or bachelor's degree from an accredited institution
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office (with proficient use of Microsoft Excel)
- Demonstrated ability to learn in-house computer system XTP and Fees Direct along with various vendor software, EFS, and FIA DOCS
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent customer service skills
- Strong organizational skills and detail oriented
- Experience working in a regulated environment and knowledge of the risk and compliance requirements associated with this
Company Values
Conduct Rules
Acting as a role model for the values of the Company:
Respect - Clients are at the heart of our business, with superior execution and superb client service the foundation of the firm. We respect our clients and always treat them fairly.
Integrity - Doing business the right way is the only way. We hold ourselves to a high ethical standard in everything we do – our clients expect this, and we demand it of ourselves.
Collaborative - We work in teams - open and direct communication and the willingness to work hard and collaboratively are the basis for effective teamwork. Working well with others is necessary for us to succeed at what we do.
Developing our People - Our people are the basis of our competitive advantage. We look to “grow our own” and make Marex the place ambitious, hardworking, talented people choose to build their careers.
Adaptable and Nimble - Our size and flexibility are an advantage. We are big enough to support our client’s various needs, and adaptable and nimble enough to respond quickly to changing conditions or requirements. A non-bureaucratic, but well controlled environment fosters initiative as well as employee satisfaction.
Conduct Rules
You must:
- Act with integrity
- Act with due skill, care, and diligence
- Be open and cooperative with the FCA, the PRA and other regulators (where applicable)
- Pay due regard to the interests of customers and treat them fairly
- Observe proper standard of market conduct
Skills Required
- Minimum of 3 years of exposure to the commodities industry
- Associate or bachelor's degree from an accredited institution
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and Microsoft Excel
- Ability to learn and use XTP, Fees Direct, EFS, FIA DOCS, and other vendor software
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent customer service skills
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
- Experience working in a regulated environment and knowledge of related risk and compliance requirements
What We Do
We are a diversified global financial services platform, connecting clients to global energy, metals, agricultural and financial markets. Across our businesses we provide critical high value-add services in Market Making, Execution and Clearing, Hedging and Investment Solutions, Price Discovery and Data & Advisory. We have a leading franchise in many major metals, energy and agricultural products, executing around 38 million trades and clearing over 193 million contracts in 2021. The Group provides access to the world’s major commodity markets, covering a broad range of clients that include some of the largest commodity producers, consumers and traders, banks, hedge funds and asset managers. Marex was established in 2005 but through its subsidiaries can trace its roots in the commodity markets back almost 100 years. Headquartered in London with 22 offices worldwide, the Group has over 1,100 employees across Europe, Asia and America. State-of-the-art electronic and voice broking services facilitate all types of trading strategies. This is backed by decades of experience, with Marex emphasising intellectual knowledge and insight, alongside access to extensive data sets and the latest analytical tools. In addition to its core operations, Marex's scale and expertise in commodity derivatives, as well as physical products, has enabled it to respond to client demand and offer services for financial futures & options and foreign exchange.
