Career Opportunities

Technology Risk and Controls Associate

London, GB Full-Time Technology

About Marex

Marex Group plc (NASDAQ: MRX) is a diversified global financial services platform providing essential liquidity, market access and infrastructure services to clients across energy, commodities and financial markets. The group provides comprehensive breadth and depth of coverage across four core services: clearing, agency and execution, market making, and hedging and investment solutions. It has a leading franchise in many major metals, energy and agricultural products, with access to 60 exchanges. 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. With more than 40 offices worldwide, the group has over 2,300 employees across Europe, Asia and the Americas.

The Technology Department delivers differentiation, scalability and security for the business. Reporting to the COO, Technology provides digital tools, software services and infrastructure globally to all business groups. Software development and support teams work in agile ‘streams’ aligned to specific business areas. Our other teams work enterprise-wide to provide critical services including our global service desk, network and system infrastructure, IT operations, security, enterprise architecture and design.

Technology Governance is responsible for defining Technology-wide standards, controls and reporting to ensure the Technology business is operating effectively and meeting its financial, strategic, assurance and regulatory obligations. The area covers Technology Strategy & Planning, Risk and Controls, Business Resilience, IT Service Continuity and Enterprise Architecture.

For more information visit www.marex.com  

Role Summary

Oversee the Technology Risk framework and modernise the organisation’s Technology governance controls to ensure compliance with policies. To assist in developing and embedding high quality process and procedure documentation across the Technology teams.

Responsibilities:

  • Facilitating and improving the Technology Risk Management process.
  • Ensuring Technology controls are appropriate, facilitating reporting on Compliance to relevant internal stakeholders
  •  Support end‑to‑end delivery of Technology control improvement initiatives.
  • Drive onboarding of applications to meet SOX controls
  • Facilitate and support Internal and External Audits, their execution and the tracking of reporting of remediating actions
  • Supporting the development and embedding of underpinning process and procedure documentation, including assisting service/business/process owners with compliance to new policies and operationalising new working practices and procedures.
  • Monitor and report on the performance of these processes across the organisation, recommending and implementing enhancements, and closing coverage gaps.
  • Work with Operational Risk to manage and track key Technology Risks, provide support as part of Entity-wide risk reviews and control gaps.
  • Facilitate the Technology Supplier Management process, ensuring that internal stakeholders are compliant with the framework and the status of 3rd parties is managed.

Skills and Experience

Essential:

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Understanding of SOX 404 IT General Controls
  • Experience of working in a regulated environment and with stakeholders across Operational Risk, Audit and Compliance.

Desirable:

  • Experience working in a regulated environment and knowledge of the risk and compliance requirements associated with this.
  • Practical experience of working with Quality Management Systems, ideally with ISO27001 Foundation certification or above.
  • Risk Management – experience of facilitating the management of risks, ideally with a formal accreditation (e.g. ISO31000 or Management of Risk).
  • IT Service Management – understanding of the disciplines required to design, develop, transition and operate technology services, ideally with a formal ITIL v4 certification.
  • Practical experience of managing small project deliveries and improvement roadmaps.
  • Experience of authoring process and procedure documentation.

Competencies

  • A collaborative team player, approachable, self-efficient and influences a positive work environment
  • Demonstrates curiosity
  • Resilient in a challenging, fast-paced environment
  • Excels at building relationships, networking and influencing others
  • Strategic collaborator with insight and agility, able to anticipate future challenges, ensuring operational effectiveness

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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