Role Summary
The two-year Graduate Program provides recent graduates with hands-on experience across a wide range of front, middle, and back-office functions, contributing to projects that support operations, financial activities, client engagement, and regulatory responsibilities. Depending on placement, participants may assist with audits, reporting, compliance, financial transactions, client onboarding, technology, risk management, trade execution, prime brokerage, and client services. In addition to practical experience, the program emphasizes professional development, offering exposure to industry practices, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration alongside experienced professionals.
Graduates are expected to start no later than September 2026.
Overview of Marex and Department Description
Diversified. Resilient. Dynamic.
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. For more information visit www.marex.com.
The Legal Department at Marex plays a critical role in supporting the firm’s capital markets activities by acting as a strategic partner and risk manager, ensuring that business operations align with applicable legal and regulatory requirements. As part of a centralized function, the team advises on transactional, litigation, and regulatory matters, partnering closely with business units to navigate complex legal frameworks and exchange rules. This department not only provides strategic oversight and guidance to business units but also establishes the minimum required standards for legal and governance practices, reinforcing Marex’s commitment to transparency, consistency, and operational excellence throughout its global footprint, while supporting business growth within a strong legal and risk management framework.
Purpose of Role
The Legal Analyst is responsible for supporting the US Legal team across transactional, litigation, and regulatory matters, providing assistance with research, analysis, and documentation to ensure the firm operates within applicable legal frameworks. This role will focus on assisting with legal research, preparing documentation, and supporting ongoing legal activities, while providing additional capacity to the team and enabling senior members to focus on strategic advisory, complex matters, and stakeholder engagement.
In today’s fast-paced and highly regulated financial environment, proactive legal support is essential to safeguarding the firm’s integrity and reputation. By delivering timely legal analysis and support, the Legal team enables informed decision-making and ensures compliance with evolving regulatory requirements, while contributing to continuous improvement in legal processes and the effective management of legal risk.
Responsibilities:
- Assist in-house counsel with legal research by gathering and summarizing applicable laws and regulations related to transactional, litigation, and regulatory matters.
- Provide support to in-house counsel in preparing and organizing legal documents, including materials for transactions, filings, and governance.
- Help track changes in legal and regulatory requirements and assist in-house counsel with updating internal processes and policies as needed.
- Provide general support to the Legal team by helping with day-to-day tasks under the guidance of in-house counsel, enabling senior team members to focus on complex and strategic matters.
- Assist with organizing and maintaining legal records and workflows, ensuring documents are properly stored and accessible in accordance with internal guidelines; support efforts to stay informed on regulatory developments.
- Support in-house counsel with compliance-related tasks, including helping track requirements under SEC, FINRA, NFA, CFTC, and other applicable regulatory bodies.
- Follow established operational and risk management procedures for the role, and assist in-house counsel in ensuring compliance with applicable regulatory and company requirements
- 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:
• Adaptability & Resilience – Thrives under pressure and dynamic environments.
• Analytical & Detail-Oriented – Demonstrates curiosity, precision, and problem-solving.
• Collaboration & Relationship-Building – Drives teamwork and stakeholder engagement.
• Communication & Influence – Conveys ideas clearly and builds consensus.
• Technical & Organizational Skills – Applies technology effectively and manages priorities.
Skills and Experience:
• Graduate degree in law is required.
• Genuine interest in one or more of the program’s departmental tracks.
• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship, including, but not limited to, F-1, J-1, and M-1 visa holders, as well as individuals on CPT or OPT.
Company Values
Be collaborative - by working together across the organization, we foster teamwork, can better respond to challenges and successfully deliver for our clients
Act with integrity - we pride ourselves on our honesty and high ethical standards. We apply these values when working with all our clients, colleagues and other stakeholders
Be adaptable and entrepreneurial - we embrace change as markets evolve to constantly increase our efficiency and create innovative solutions for our clients. We are interested in the world around us and inquisitive about understanding the challenges and opportunities our clients face.
Be respectful – how we treat each other, and our clients says everything about who we are. We always act respectfully and treat people fairly in everything we do.
Nurture talent – we aim to grow our own talent and make Marex the place ambitious, hardworking and talented people choose to build their career. This means giving and taking stretch opportunities, taking risks, and committing to career development and support – for ourselves and our teams.
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.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's or master's degree in a related field
- Legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship
- Genuine interest in one or more of the program's departmental tracks
- Ability to perform legal research and prepare and organize legal documents
- Familiarity or ability to assist with regulatory requirements (SEC, FINRA, NFA, CFTC)
- Strong analytical, communication, collaboration, and organizational skills
- Available to start no later than September 2026
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.
