Career Opportunities

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.

For more information visit https://www.marex.com/

The Marex Solutions department is a division of Marex, specialises in the manufacture and distribution of customised derivative products. We have two specialist teams: Hedging Solutions and Financial Products. Marex Hedging Solutions helps corporations reduce their risk due to the volatility of commodity and currency prices. Marex Financial Products offers a customisable investment solutions platform, allowing investors to easily price and create fully tailor-made products.

This role covers the trading function within Marex Solutions.

Role Summary

An ambitious, proactive and technically-minded individual with experience in rapid application development, responsible for managing risk arising from Marex Solutions’ clients’ activity set within group risk appetite and defined risk limits, as well collaborating with our technology function to push the boundaries of what our best-in-class trading platform can do. The successful candidate will be hungry to learn every aspect of a very complex cross-asset trading desk, and find ways to use technology to serve our clients’ needs and deliver excellent PnL and risk management.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to Marex Solutions’ Funds, AMC and QIS trading capabilities to support best-in-class trade structuring and execution capabilities for clients, growing our market share and PnL
• Work closely with Technology and Quants to greatly expand the capabilities of our sophisticated Strategies pricing, order management and risk management systems, enhancing our product offering to grow our market share in Funds, QIS and AMC.
• Collaborate with data, research and quants colleagues to identify opportunities for hedging strategies and originate new strategies marketable to our clients
• Manage Marex market risk for Marex Solutions within group risk appetite and defined risk limits whilst generating positive returns
• Build relationships with sales/broking functions within Solutions and across the broader firm to originate structured transactions, with a cross-product-selling mindset
• Collaborate with central operations functions which support the trading role including but not limited to Operations, Finance and Technology
• Ensure compliance with the company’s regulatory requirements under the FCA, AMF
• Adhere to the operational risk framework for your role ensuring that all regulatory or company determined parameters are complied with.
• Be a role model for demonstrating highest level standards of integrity and conduct and reflecting Company Values.
• At all times comply with the FCA’s Code of Conduct
• Carry out regulated activities under the Marex Financial trading books
• 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
• Report any breaches of policy to Compliance and/ or your supervisor as required without delay
• Escalate risk events immediately

Skills and Experience

• Strong mathematical/technology/engineering background.
• Proven rapid-turnaround app development experience: e.g. developing Python web apps, integrating with internal and external APIs, working with SQL databases and data modelling, debugging, logging, testing and shipping quickly in messy real-world environments
• Existing knowledge of options theory and financial models, or strong motivation to become proficient rapidly
• Analytical skills, identifying opportunities and risks in a quick and decisive manner
• Good knowledge of the financial service markets and relevant regulatory requirements

Competencies

• Excellent analytical and verbal/written communication skills
• A collaborative team player, who is approachable, self-motivated and influences a positive work environment
• Demonstrates strong interest in financial markets
• Resilient in a challenging, fast-paced environment
• Ability to take a high level of responsibility in a fast-paced and high-volume environment
• Ability to make data- and research-informed decisions
• 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
• Understand and commit to complying with all applicable Federal and ADGM related AML/TF/Sanctions laws, at all time
• Be open and cooperative with law enforcement and / or regulatory authorities on any investigations
• Pay due regard to the interests of customers/counterparties and treat them fairly
• Observe proper standard of market conduct

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 being an inclusive employer and providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all. We will provide reasonable adjustments to remove any disadvantage to you being considered for this role. We value the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the company.  We welcome applications from candidates returning to the workforce.  Also, Marex is committed to avoiding circumstances in which the appearance or possibility of conflicts of interest may exist within the hiring process.

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