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Financial Crime Investigator, Americas
Diversified. Resilient. Dynamic.
Marex is a global financial services platform, providing essential liquidity, market access and infrastructure services to clients in the energy, commodities and financial markets.
The Group provides comprehensive breadth and depth of coverage across four core services: Market Making, Clearing, Hedging and Investment Solutions and Agency and Execution. It has a major franchise in many major metals, energy and agricultural products, executing around 50 million trades and clearing 205 million contracts in 2022. 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 35 offices around the globe, and over 2,300 dedicated people enabling access to exchanges and technology-powered services.
For more information visit www.marex.com
Purpose of Role:
The Financial Crime Investigator is responsible for investigating alerts from the company’s Monitoring and Surveillance programs and advises on risk relevancy and possible SAR filing to the Head Transaction Monitoring and Investigations Americas. They are also expected to assist in writing policies and procedures for processes the function continues to build. Additionally, they participate in projects and help build out the Financial Crime Compliance function at Marex, building on their previous experience.
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.
The Financial Crime Compliance team is a second line function that works to mitigate risks related to financial crimes and criminal actors. The team partners with the business teams to ensure that the controls Marex has in place are sufficient to mitigate the financial crime risk the customer base and product offerings pose.
Responsibilities:
- Conduct investigations into potentially suspicious activity alerts and document findings and results.
- Submit request for information (RFH) to the Business or any other department to assist in the investigations where needed.
- Review potential matches resulting from sanctions screenings.
- Draft suspicious activity reports (SAR) for further review.
- Assist in the further development and implementation of the company’s Actimize monitoring program and any other tools necessary to carry out responsibility.
- Participate in and deliver trainings
- Collaborate with first line functions and provide guidance, as needed
- Draft policies and procedures and refine existing ones to ensure Marex is meeting its regulatory requirements in an efficient manner.
- Ensuring compliance with the company’s regulatory requirements under the SEC, FINRA, NFA, CFTC and other applicable regulatory entities.
- 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 Financial Crime 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.
- 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
- At least three to five (3-5) years of experience in anti-financial crime, preferably in a similar role involving investigations and/or transaction monitoring.
- Familiarity with Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) laws and regulations.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience working in a regulated environment and knowledge of the risk and compliance requirements associated with this.
Salary Range: $75,000 to $85,000 per year and eligible for discretionary bonus.
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.
We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by the law.
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