Application Support Analyst - Clearing
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Occupation Type
IT user support technicians
Occupation Code Skill LevelMedium Skilled
Sponsorship Salary Threshold
£41,700
(£21.38 per hour)
Standard minimum applies
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Description
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/
Job Reference: VN2506
Overview Of Marex / Department Description
The Technology Department delivers differentiation, scalability and security for the business. 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
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/
Job Reference: VN2506
Overview Of Marex / Department Description
The Technology Department delivers differentiation, scalability and security for the business. 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.
The Support function provides technical support for all applications. The Application Support team runs a 24/5 global front door to keep us up and running, backed up by business-aligned Support teams that specialise in maintaining their business stream’s applications. Each business-aligned Application Support team works with a corresponding Business Technology and Development team.
The Application Support team is responsible for providing technical support for all front office and post-trade applications including trade capture, market data, settlement and clearing systems and their associated client applications, as well as overnight risk calculation systems and the business systems used by control and support departments. The team handles all support requests, incidents, problems, and business continuity activities, to ensure the highest quality delivery of services to end users and clients.
Role SummaryThe Application Support Analyst is responsible for taking ownership of issues and providing procedural and technical support to various teams and internal/external stakeholders. In addition to driving resolution of day-to-day issues, managing incidents and outages to resolution, this role requires a close partnership with the rest of the infrastructure team, the service desk and the wider IT group.
In this role, you will work closely with both business stakeholders and engineering teams to identify, design, and deliver features that strengthen cross-selling capabilities and improve operational efficiency across the firm.
Marex recognises the importance of digital services in delivering the best possible client experience. As a result, the technology team plays an increasingly critical role in the firm’s evolution, enabling business growth and supporting the delivery of new products and services.
Responsibilities
The Support function provides technical support for all applications. The Application Support team runs a 24/5 global front door to keep us up and running, backed up by business-aligned Support teams that specialise in maintaining their business stream’s applications. Each business-aligned Application Support team works with a corresponding Business Technology and Development team.
The Application Support team is responsible for providing technical support for all front office and post-trade applications including trade capture, market data, settlement and clearing systems and their associated client applications, as well as overnight risk calculation systems and the business systems used by control and support departments. The team handles all support requests, incidents, problems, and business continuity activities, to ensure the highest quality delivery of services to end users and clients.
Role SummaryThe Application Support Analyst is responsible for taking ownership of issues and providing procedural and technical support to various teams and internal/external stakeholders. In addition to driving resolution of day-to-day issues, managing incidents and outages to resolution, this role requires a close partnership with the rest of the infrastructure team, the service desk and the wider IT group.
In this role, you will work closely with both business stakeholders and engineering teams to identify, design, and deliver features that strengthen cross-selling capabilities and improve operational efficiency across the firm.
Marex recognises the importance of digital services in delivering the best possible client experience. As a result, the technology team plays an increasingly critical role in the firm’s evolution, enabling business growth and supporting the delivery of new products and services.
Responsibilities
Role specific:
- Provide support for all trading and back-office platforms offered by Marex to both internal and external client base.
- Support business users offering second- and third-line support.
- Knowledge of scripting language (PowerShell, Python...).
- Manage new system analysis and implementation.
- Provide incident management per ITIL standards.
- Liaison between technology department and business groups to communicate system changes.
- Manage process and trading system documentation in existing template; produce and regularly maintain to a high standard.
- Ensure active tasks retain focus through workflow and prioritisation awareness.
- Manage vendor system upgrades and implementation.
- Manage exchange relationships and project manage mandatory upgrades.
- Manage technical client onboarding.
- Complete exchange reporting and compliance audits.
- Manage client technical requirements within Marex technology department.
- Complete monthly transactional and volume reporting across all systems.
- Ensure compliance with the company’s regulatory requirements under the FCA.
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.
Skills and Experience:
Essential:
Essential:
- Solid background in Windows, Linux/Unix OS, including one of the following: SQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Oracle.
- Must be able to work under demanding conditions with a calm demeanour.
- Experience gained in a financial services background, ideally finance.
- Ability to work as part of a team in an environment with changing expectations.
- Proven ability to show a proactiveness in picking up issues and improving existing processes
- Process-driven and systematic mindset.
- Experience with ITIL and change management processes.
- Excellent documentation, communication, and organizational skills.
- Ability to build strong relationships with Application Development teams and business sponsors.
- General front-to-back knowledge of the flow for trading/clearing/operational process in settlement of futures and OTC.
- Experience in exchange and vendor management.
- Knowledge of server-side infrastructure and admin tools.
- Ability to work shifts patterns (if required).
- Good to have knowledge of Fix Messaging protocol, including support experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in any relevant field.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
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
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.
If you would like to receive any information in a different way or would like us to do anything differently to help you, please include it in your application.
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.
If you would like to receive any information in a different way or would like us to do anything differently to help you, please include it in your application.