About Marex
Marex Group plc is a diversified global financial services platform, providing essential liquidity, market access and infrastructure services to clients in the energy, commodities and financial markets. It listed on Nasdaq Global Select Market in April 2024. With more than 35 offices in Europe, US and APAC.
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.
For more information visit www.marex.com
Role Summary
In the ever-evolving financial landscape, Compliance has become increasingly complex. Marex must navigate a wide range of regulatory requirements to maintain licenses and protect Marex’s reputation. Compliance and Compliance Officers play a crucial role in ensuring that all activities are conducted in accordance with the law.
Compliance Officers monitor transactions, conduct regular audits, train employees on regulatory requirements, and implement policies and procedures to minimize non-compliance risks. Compliance efforts are instrumental in fostering a compliant culture within Marex and ensuring that all employees understand their responsibilities.
Furthermore, Compliance is a bridge between Marex and regulatory authorities. Compliance is responsible for responding to enquiries, providing necessary documentation, and cooperating with regulatory examinations and investigations. This collaboration is essential in maintaining a healthy and transparent relationship between Marex and regulatory bodies.
Overall Responsibilities
- Responsible for regulatory enquiries including tracking, compiling, and submitting responses and reviewing all responses/documentation received to ensure completion.
- Analyse regulatory requests to evaluate initial risk to the firm, regulatory gaps, and business lines involved.
- Identify regulatory gaps in responses and escalate effectively. Track regulatory requests and responses and manage timeline for each which includes managing regulator expectations and working within Marex to meet those expectations.
- Guide internal teams to ensure they are well prepared for regulatory meetings/responses.
- Assist with maintaining a database for management reporting of regulatory enquiries and issue tracking.
- Review and approve promotional material for compliance with FCA rules.
- Ensuring compliance with the company’s regulatory requirements under the FCA and other UK regulators and applicable exchanges e.g. ICE, LME, LSE, EUREX, CME
- 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.
Skills And Experience
- Bachelor’s degree or above.
- Existing regulatory enquiry experience in a financial markets context – preferred but not essential.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Data analysis and interpretation skills.
- Organizational and time management skills.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc).
- Experience working in a regulated environment and knowledge of the risk and compliance requirements associated with this – preferred but essential.
Competencies
- Self-starter with an ability to prioritize and manage multiple deliverables from beginning to completion
- Resilience in a challenging, fast-paced environment.
- Ability to communicate across geography, business function, corporate level, and experience set.
- Excellent in building relationships, networking, and influencing others.
- A collaborative team player, approachable, self-efficient and influences a positive work environment
- 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.
