COO Team - Derivatives Automation Analyst

About Marex

Marex Group plc is a diversified global financial services platform, providing essential liquidity, market access and infrastructure services to clients in the energy, commodities and financial markets. It listed on Nasdaq Global Select Market in April 2024. With more than 35 offices in Europe, US and APAC, it 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.

Marex Solutions - Chief Operating Office (COO)

Our COO team in Marex Solutions play a crucial role in supporting the delivery of new business initiatives for the business. This role relies on building and leveraging relationships across multiple departments to deliver projects and activities that support business growth and optimisation.

The COO team is broken down into the following 4 pillars, all reporting into the Chief Operating Officer for Marex Solutions:

• Sales – delivering new business initiatives, enhancing MI, supporting regulatory initiatives and driving change across the business
• Trading and Technology – delivering new platforms for Marex Solutions, improving our internal infrastructure from risk management to client facing platforms
• Trade Origination – driving improvement in our processes and documentation to support the rapid growth of our business.
• Governance and Strategy – supporting the business growth by raising awareness and engagement of the Marex Solutions brand.

For more information visit www.marex.com

Role Summary

As a liaison between the Solutions business and Control and Support functions of the wider group, you will be one of the key contacts for Solutions. Working alongside key stakeholders in delivering projects related to a range of topics and rolling out new infrastructure, enabling the business to keep growing sustainably and integrating expansion opportunities when they arise.

Your role will sit within the Trade Origination team covering both the Financial Products and Hedging Solutions business areas of Marex Solutions, and therefore will have involvement in other areas of the COO team and wider teams, such as IT, Quants, Sales and Trading.

Responsibilities

The role requires a varied skillset to be involved in, but not limited to, the following:

• Responsible for owning and creating document templates for the Marex Solutions business. This involves but is not limited to:
  • Liaising with key stakeholders such as Trading, Sales and Legal
  • Working closely with key stakeholders to assist new and existing business, ensuring the business is ready for execution when necessary
• Collaborate with Sales resolving urgent documentation issues, clarification of issues on drafting / templating of documents
• Building tactical and strategic tools to help improve both risk management and client facing experience
• Working closely with Marex IT leads to identify the best representation of products from a document, pricing and trade booking perspective, to enable the business to scale efficiently
• Monitor Management Information (MI) relating to documentation and trade booking errors, to ensure our level of document automation remains above the agreed thresholds.
• Working closely with Trading and Quantitative Analysts to help build and maintain Trading tools to assist pricing and trading of products
• Support regulatory initiatives/projects with the subject matter experts together with Legal and Compliance
• Ensuring compliance with the company’s regulatory requirements under the FCA
• 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 the FCA’s Code of Conduct /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.

Competencies

• A collaborative team player, approachable, self-efficient and influences a positive work environment
• Demonstrates curiosity
• Resilient in a challenging, fast-paced environment
• Ability to take some level of responsibility in a fast pace and high-volume environment
• 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

• A degree level qualification
• In depth knowledge of Structured Products across a range of asset classes, with experience in the relating documentation such as Termsheets, Pricing Supplements and Key Information Documents (KIDs).
• Cross-asset (Equities, Credit, Interest Rates) experience would be preferable.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to discuss ideas and concepts with stakeholders of all levels.
• Self-motivated, confident, and resilient - able to strive within a profitability driven environment.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Strong understanding of Microsoft Office applications.
• Advanced Excel / coding skills including, but not limited to, VBA and Python is key.
• Experience working in a regulated environment and knowledge of the risk and compliance requirements associated with this.

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
• Pay due regard to the interests of customers and treat them fairly
• Observe proper standard of market conduct
• Act to deliver good outcomes for retail customers

Company Values

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 is 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.

Marex is fully committed to the elimination of unlawful or unfair discrimination and values the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the company.

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