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.
Role Summary
A diligent and proactive individual, responsible for managing execution risk for the Metals product set within group risk appetite and defined risk limits during the Asian time zone. Junior/mid-level position with the ability to work autonomously, and as part of a team.
This role covers the Sales/ Brokerage function within the Metals department.
Overall Responsibilities
- Manage internal and external metal flows across all Marex order platforms, products to include, base, ferrous, foreign exchange and precious metals.
- Execution of and where necessary, the booking and manual recapping of new trades.
- Manage Marex Spectron market risk for Metals product set within group risk appetite and defined risk limits whilst generating positive returns.
- Reconcile client and internal flows ensuring all book positions are validated and accepted by London team upon handover of Franchise to London time zone.
- Collaborate with sales/broking functions across multiple time zones to originate hedging solutions for clients with a focus on helping build out the Metals client base in Asia.
Standard Responsibilities:
- Ensuring compliance with the company’s regulatory requirements under the MAS.
- 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
- Ensuring compliance with the company’s regulatory requirements under the local regulatory bodies and SFC.
- 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.
- Strategic collaborator with insight and agility, able to anticipate future challenges, ensuring operational effectiveness
Skills and Experience
- To escalate risk events immediately.
- Attention to detail and an eagerness to learn whilst also being collaborative with a ‘team first’ mentality, able to anticipate future challenges, ensuring operational effectiveness.
- Good working knowledge of financial futures markets and experience of working in a trading environment.
- Experience working in a regulated environment and knowledge of the risk and compliance requirements associated with this.
- Futures dealing is a must, metal business background is advantageous.
- Fluency in an East Asian language (such as Japanese) would be advantageous.
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.
Skills Required
- Good working knowledge of financial futures markets
- Experience of working in a trading environment
- Experience working in a regulated environment
- Knowledge of risk and compliance requirements
- Futures dealing
- Metal business background
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.
