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Marex Spectron


An essential tech-enabled liquidity hub, connecting clients to global energy, metals, agricultural and financial markets. We are an essential tech-enabled liquidity hub, connecting clients to global energy, metals, agricultural and financial markets. Across our businesses we provide critical high value-add services in Market Making, Commercial Hedging, Price Discovery and Data & Advisory. While other competitors might match Marex Spectron’s offering in one specific commodity category, it is unique in being top ranked across Metals, Energy and Agricultural products. Headquartered in London, Marex Spectron’s extensive international networks cover Europe, Asia and North America markets. State-of-the-art electronic and voice broking services facilitates all types of trading strategies. This is backed by decades of experience, with Marex Spectron emphasising intellectual knowledge and insight, alongside access to extensive data sets and the latest analytical tools. In addition to its core operations, Marex Spectron's scale and expertise in broking commodity derivatives as well as physical products has enabled it to respond to client demand and offer broking services for financial futures & options and foreign exchange.

Headquarter Location:
London, England
1d

Alteryx Developer - 12 month FTC

Marex SpectronLondon, GB - Remote - Hybrid
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Marex Spectron is hiring a Remote Alteryx Developer - 12 month FTC

Marex is a diversified 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 leading 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.

Marex was established in 2005 but through its subsidiaries can trace its roots in the commodity markets back almost 100 years. Headquartered in London with 36 offices worldwide, the Group has over 1,800 employees across Europe, Asia and America.

For more information visit www.marex.com

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 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.

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 role of Alteryx Developer is to take ownership of a business area’s current Alteryx UAT and Production products, develop and create new Alteryx products, assess the process and procedures around the current setup and enhance those process and procedures to ensure a stable environment is established that also allows for future growth

There will be a requirement to assist with the migration of existing Alteryx processes to other enterprise software solutions, so collaboration and requirements gathering with multiple business areas is required to enable this transition.

Responsibilities:

• Work with Technology, Finance and Operations departments, to obtain a total picture of the trade flow and associated systems to identify where data flows from and to.
• Identify where Marex has cumbersome or high-risk manual processes which could be centralized and incorporated into Alteryx
• Take ownership of existing Alteryx products as well as developing and creating new
• Monitor and asses the Alteryx environment from a resource perspective. Ensuring it can scale effectively.
• Ensure any workflows or processes migrated into Alteryx are documented with clear responsibilities defined between Technology and the business.
• Provide training for team members on Alteryx workflows and issue management
• Ensure compliance with the company’s regulatory requirements under the FCA
• 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 comply with the FCA’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.

Competencies, Skills and Experience:

Essential:
• Alteryx Core or Advanced Certifications
• Financial services experience, using Alteryx for data extraction, transformation, and analysis.
• Excellent Excel skills, (preferably with some VBA knowledge, but not essential)
• Experience querying relation databases using SQL
• Proven experience with REST API’s
• Experience dealing with business stakeholders and migrating manual processes into Alteryx workflows
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Desirable:
• Scripting skills, preferably Python and dealing with data (numpy, pandas)
• Experience working in a regulated environment and knowledge of the risk and compliance requirements associated with this
• Business intelligence data visualisation experience e.g. Tableau or PowerBI

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

If you’re forging a career in this area and are looking for your next step, get in touch!

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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Technical Lead - Solutions

Marex SpectronLondon, GB - Remote - Hybrid
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Marex Spectron is hiring a Remote Technical Lead - Solutions

Marex is a diversified 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 leading 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.

Marex was established in 2005 but through its subsidiaries can trace its roots in the commodity markets back almost 100 years. Headquartered in London with 36 offices worldwide, the Group has over 1,800 employees across Europe, Asia and America.

For more information visit www.marex.com

Marex Solutions specializes in bespoke financial derivative products, providing customized investment solutions through its proprietary trading platform, Agile. We offer a wide range of services, including hedging and investment solutions, tailored to meet the needs of private banks, wealth managers, and other financial institutions.

Solutions prides itself on innovation in the field of Structured Products. The platform covers over 1000 underlying assets across Commodities, Credit, Cryptocurrency, Equities, Fixed Income, FX and funds, enabled by technology and the Agile web platform.

For more information, see the homepage: https://solutions.marex.com

We are seeking a Full-Stack JavaScript tech lead who will help the business realise its objectives to become the most advanced provider of Structured Products globally.

A key component of their tech stack is the Sales and Clients Web Platform (aka ‘Agile’). This sophisticated application enables sales traders, brokers, and external clients to price and book live trades through a ReactJS web-based interface and suite of NodeJS and C# services that connect the back-end ecosystem of booking, execution, finance, and risk platforms.

In this role, you will have the unique opportunity to work directly with the Head of Derivatives Trading and their team - the product leaders for the app - and provide technical leadership for a diverse team of 10 developers and testers based in London and Ukraine. We are looking for candidates who are not only passionate about best practices, good software design principles, and a DevOps mindset, but also thrive in a collaborative and dynamic environment.

Responsibilities:

• Architecture and design of the technology created and maintained by the delivery team.
• Line manage the team, and optimise its structure to continuously deliver value to the business.
• Collaborate with the Head of Derivatives Trading on the direction of the application.
• Define roadmap and strategy with Head of Development and other development leads.
• Oversee projects to ensure they are run efficiently and delivered on time and on budget.
• Liaise with business users and BA/QAs; define business requirements and provide updates.
• Ensure production grade systems and proper documentation.
• Define software development best practices and processes; ensure they are followed.
• Lead the planning and breakdown of sprints and user stories. Provide demos for stakeholders and SMEs.
• Work with stakeholders to prioritise and prepare stores and bugs for sprint planning. Ensure stores are well-formed, testable deliverables that can be delivered iteratively with testable acceptance criteria.
• Resolving support issues in a professional and timely manner
• Foster cross-team collaboration and willingness to participate in cross-team shared initiatives (e.g., agreeing service and API contracts, contributing to common DevOps templates and reference architectures).

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:

• Strong full-stack JavaScript coding skills with NodeJS, TypeScript, ReactJS, jest, expressJS, GraphQL
• Able to preside over backend .NET development with C#.
• Basic level understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Terraform or equivalent.
• Building, distributing, and running applications using Docker images.
• Familiar with real-time messaging integration patterns with RabbitMQ, Kafka, Redis pub/sub or equivalent.
• Understanding of modern CI/CD and DevOps practices, and how to introduce them into the delivery workflow
• Agile and scrum development methodologies.
• Team leadership and ability to set the technical direction for a team.
• Application of software architecture and design principles and patterns and experience employing the right design choices for a given project.
• Relational and non-relational databases.
• Thought leadership, and the ability to oversee the introduction of new technologies, patterns or practices that benefit business outcomes.
• Team leadership and line management experience.

If you’re forging a career in this area and are looking for your next step, get in touch!

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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Business Intelligence Analyst

Marex SpectronLondon, GB - Remote - Hybrid
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Marex Spectron is hiring a Remote Business Intelligence Analyst

Marex is a diversified 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 leading 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.

Marex was established in 2005 but through its subsidiaries can trace its roots in the commodity markets back almost 100 years. Headquartered in London with 36 offices worldwide, the Group has over 1,800 employees across Europe, Asia and America.

For more information visit www.marex.com

The BI Analyst will contribute to the development and delivery of the Business Intelligence Platform. This will involve acting as part of a centre of excellence, liaising with Data Analysts, Engineers, and Business stakeholders to deliver a self-service solution utilising our modern data platform.

Responsibilities:

• Perform a prominent role in the centre of excellence for business intelligence defining best practices for wider self-service adoption
• Mentor business champions building solutions for their specific departments
• Business Intelligence platform architecture and administration
• Liaise with data analysts and business stakeholders to gather requirements
• Translate requirements into technical solutions
• Advanced data modelling skills
• Data visualisation
• Proficient in performance analysis and tuning
• Ensure data security policies are applied appropriately

Skills and Experience:

Essential:
• Advanced Power BI (Modelling, Visualisation, Security, Platform Architecture and Administration)
• DAX expressions
• Advanced SQL skills (SQL, T-SQL, PL/SQL)
• Knowledge of Kimball data modelling methodology
• Experience of the Azure Data Platform including Azure Databricks

Desirable:
• Knowledge of wider Microsoft Fabric platform
• CICD (Git, Azure Devops, Bitbucket)
• Semi structured data stores and formats (MongoDB, JSON)
• Experience of working in an Agile/SCRUM environment
• Knowledge of Financial Markets

Soft::
• Able to communicate effectively with varied colleagues ranging from senior stakeholders in different business areas through to the technical implementation teams.
• Think long-term, but deliver iteratively, and show value in small but frequent advancements.
• Understand industry trends and best practice and be selective about what is applicable for Marex.

If you’re forging a career in this area and are looking for your next step, get in touch!

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.


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Head of Credit Risk: EMEA

Marex SpectronLondon, GB - Remote - Hybrid

Marex Spectron is hiring a Remote Head of Credit Risk: EMEA

Marex is a diversified 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 leading 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.

Marex was established in 2005 but through its subsidiaries can trace its roots in the commodity markets back almost 100 years. Headquartered in London with 36 offices worldwide, the Group has over 1,800 employees across Europe, Asia and America.

For more information visit www.marex.com

This role exists to take ownership of all elements of counterparty risk monitoring across the Marex EMEA client base and in conjunction with other regional Heads, ensure a thorough understanding and reporting of counterparty risk exposures and appropriate limits across the firm.

You will lead the EMEA counterparty risk function including responsibility for supporting and developing analysts and to deputise for the Global Head of Credit where necessary.

You will produce well researched and articulated recommendations for credit facilities submitted to the Global Head of Credit Risk, Global Head of Risk, CRO & Executive Risk & Credit Committee.

Responsibilities:

Role Specific Responsibilities
• Qualitative and quantitative analysis of all current and potential clients & counterparties including; Corporates, Financial Institutions, Individuals, CCP’s & State Owned (or pseudo State Owned) Enterprises.
• Continual focus on global macro-economic environment with understanding of specific country factors and the impact of those factors on the credit risk assessment with regard to clients & counterparties incorporated or operating in those countries.
• Lead integration projects for new acquisitions from a counterparty credit perspective
• Form well-researched and intellectually credible recommendations for new credit facilities and renewals.
• High levels of interaction with clients, as required, on both a domestic and international basis.
• Management information reporting where relevant on a periodic and ad-hoc basis.
• Act as an advisor and subject matter expert to guide the business for all credit related items in the EMEA region and beyond, managing the credit facility application and annual review process for the allocated client base.
• Form enduring and effective working relationships across all internal departments to reinforce the firm’s client service model.
• Contribute to enhancing existing and/ or implementation of new credit risk policies, procedures and processes to drive the department forward and ensure adherence to best practice.
• Communicate & escalate all relevant items to the Global head of Credit, Global Head of Risk and the CRO as appropriate.

Company Standard Responsibilities
• Ensuring compliance with the company’s regulatory requirements under any applicable regulator.
• 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.

Competencies:

• Ability to communicate with confidence and in a manner appropriate to the audience, from junior level colleagues to C-Suite executives within the firm as well as a diverse external client base.
• Effective report writing skills with an ability to distil complex information to a ‘key risks’ summary to enable management decision making.
• Strong presentation technique and experience communicating to senior management forums.
• A collaborative team player, approachable, self-efficient and influences a positive work environment.
• Demonstrates curiosity.
• Resilient in a challenging, fast-paced environment.
• Ability to take a high level of responsibility.
• 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:

• Strong and demonstrable understanding of corporate financial statement analysis gained ideally through an investment banking or institutional brokerage background.
• Track record in forming well researched conclusions on credit assessments including; internally modelled credit ratings and recovery potential in the event of default.
• Understanding credit risk inherent in granting credit facilities to cover the margin requirements (initial and variation) of futures and options.
• University graduate (or equivalent) or sufficient relevant work experience.
• Good knowledge of MS Office products, Bloomberg is advantageous.
• Experience of reviewing clients that operate in the Commodities sector.
• Additional language skills other than English is desirable.
• Experience working in a regulated environment and knowledge of the risk and compliance requirements associated with this.

If you’re forging a career in this area and are looking for your next step, get in touch!

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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Payroll Accountant

Marex SpectronLondon, GB - Remote - Hybrid

Marex Spectron is hiring a Remote Payroll Accountant

Marex is a diversified 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 leading 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.

Marex was established in 2005 but through its subsidiaries can trace its roots in the commodity markets back almost 100 years. Headquartered in London with 36 offices worldwide, the Group has over 1,800 employees across Europe, Asia and America.

For more information visit www.marex.com

The purpose of the role is to ensure that all Salary and related transactions for the group are accounted correctly in the firm’s accounting system. The role will work closely with Payroll and Finance teams as well as the wider HR team.

Responsibilities:

• Preparation and posting of all global Payroll Journals.
• Preparation of month-end cost and variance analysis to identify any significant cost movements.
• Preparation and posting of month end accruals.
• Preparation and posting of the monthly headcount Journals.
• Reconciliation and substantiation of balances on all compensation related Balance sheet accounts.
• Preparation of salary cost reports as per regulatory requirements and individual requests by department heads.
• Annual reconciliation and true-up of PSA, P11D and other accruals
• Monthly reconciliation of the payroll bank account.
• Daily clearing down of all outstanding bank entries for the group.
• Monthly FX Journals and Hedging info provided to Treasury.
• Liaison with external auditors to provide information on salary and related costs.
• Review and challenge quarterly balance sheet reconciliations.
• Assist with the ongoing development of Payroll Transformation projects.

Competencies:

• Strong Technical Accounting skills.
• Exceptional attention to detail and organisational skills.
• Strong analytical skills and an aptitude for problem solving with the ability to exercise sound and
balanced judgment in a highly regulated environment.
• Strong teamwork ethic with excellent interpersonal skills.
• The ability to influence outcomes - Present sound, persuasive rationale for ideas or opinions. Able
to take a position on issues and influences others' opinions and presents persuasive recommendations.
• Engaging individual with the willingness to learn different products and different functions.
• Ability to manage time and multiple projects, meet deadlines and prioritise effectively.
• Ability to build trust and effectively network both internally and externally.
• Ability to communicate and explain complex issues clearly.
• Strategic collaborator with insight and agility, able to anticipate future challenges, ensuring
operational effectiveness

Experience:

• Significant experience in preparation and posting of compensation related Journals.
• A track record of improving processes and adding value to clients/stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, organisation and documentation skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel.
• Experience with the preparation of financial statements and managing the audit process from
start to finish.
• Track record of improving processes and adding value.

If you’re forging a career in this area and are looking for your next step, get in touch!

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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Prime Services Risk Manager

Marex SpectronLondon, GB - Remote - Hybrid
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Marex Spectron is hiring a Remote Prime Services Risk Manager

Marex is a diversified 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 leading 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.

Marex was established in 2005 but through its subsidiaries can trace its roots in the commodity markets back almost 100 years. Headquartered in London with 36 offices worldwide, the Group has over 1,800 employees across Europe, Asia and America.

For more information visit www.marex.com

The Prime Services Risk Manager position requires a thorough understanding of the Equity & Fixed Income markets to provide risk management oversight and analysis on the trading risks of client portfolios, the equity business, and global markets. Product coverage includes cash equities, single name equity
futures, options, ETFs, indices, structured OTC derivatives.

Assisting in the formulation of Marex’s Client Margin policy, ongoing review of positions against limits, working with 1st line team on evaluating prospective client portfolios to ensure strategies are in line with risk appetite, design and perform scenario analysis on portfolios and collaborate with traders and quants
to review model performance and measures and propose improvements to more accurately capture risks. Other core responsibilities include real-time monitoring and communication of market events, an understanding of historical market performances, conduct mandated stress testing and participate in
internal/external audits.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the analysis and monitoring of market risks taken within the equities product area. Main responsibilities include 2nd line responsibilities of margin models, model risk, collateral adequacy, volatility analysis and reporting of market risk. This role will primarily interface with the head of clearing risk EMEA and equity clearing front line risk team & desk as well as other risk, control, and support teams like – compliance, legal, finance, operations, treasury, and audit.
• Appreciation and familiarity with Margin rules of prime brokers in Europe and clearing houses. Understanding of the practical application of Portfolio Margin i.e., 3 separate “call” numbers (Risk, House, TIMS) and how they should operate (not essential but nice to have).
• Monitor in real-time client / firm positions, account balance and P&L to ensure adherence to predefined risk parameters.
• Proactively review and manage accordingly with 1stline the client / firm accounts in excess of predefined risk parameters or experiencing trading losses to bring within parameters and/or protect the firm’s capital; this may include prompt communication with 1st line team on clients risk parameters that are breached and escalation to senior management within Risk and the business.
• Provide quantitative support and development for Marex’s equity risk model and validation needs. Develop comprehensive quantitative tools and formulate analytical models as necessary to identity, assess and mitigate risk across the equity client clearing portfolio.
• Perform daily risk analysis on client positions including VaR, Sensitivity Analysis & Stress Testing.
• Complete daily reporting of key risk issues to both Head of Clearing Risk EMEA & APAC and Business Management, escalating when required.
• Participate in development of cross-product risk, margining and liquidity optimization initiatives and tools to assist the local business and the group risk management function in better decision making and support the business needs.
• Review risk reports produced by the 1stline risk team.
• Produce periodic risk reports and distribute to relevant stakeholders. Management of client escalation requests.
• Conduct liquidity analysis of client / firm portfolios and of individual underlying positions in relation to market depth.
• Responsible for daily procedures and aligning internal procedures /policies to Risk best practice; identify process improvements.
• Responsible for ensuring adherence to risk policies & procedures and escalation of potential issues.
• Deliver on allocated projects and system development items as well as proactively engage on risk or control improvement ideas with the wider team.
• Work closely with the 1st line prime risk function and the local risk team to cover various markets and global trading hours.
• Effectively communicate risk management principles to internal stakeholders and 1st line risk team / counterparties; escalate issues appropriately to direct manager.

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:

• Strong quantitative background gained in education and/or in a professional setting with a particular focus on options pricing and hedging, as well as exposure to risk management concepts, particularly VaR, Sensitivities & Stress Testing.
• Strong risk management background with experience of equity asset classes and in-depth product coverage.
• Solid understanding of financial markets gained in a Brokerage or Banking institution from either the Risk Management or Trading sides; experience of risk managing equities, bonds and equity options.
• Composure, character, and presence to work effectively in challenging market conditions to instil required level of authority on any situation.
• Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships across all areas of the firm and communicate effectively across all levels.
• Understanding of pre- and post-trade risk controls and their applications.
• Solid understanding of processes, controls and responsibilities associated with a Financial Markets business.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, high level VBA skills within Microsoft Excel. Strong programming skillset preferred (i.e. C+, SQL, Python, Matlab)
• Relevant professional designation preferred (i.e. CFA, FRM)

If you’re forging a career in this area and are looking for your next step, get in touch!

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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Software Development Manager - Solutions

Marex SpectronLondon, GB - Remote - Hybrid
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Marex Spectron is hiring a Remote Software Development Manager - Solutions

Marex is a diversified 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 leading 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.

Marex was established in 2005 but through its subsidiaries can trace its roots in the commodity markets back almost 100 years. Headquartered in London with 36 offices worldwide, the Group has over 1,800 employees across Europe, Asia and America.

For more information visit www.marex.com

Marex Solutions specializes in bespoke financial derivative products, providing customized investment solutions through its proprietary trading platform, Agile. We offer a wide range of services, including hedging and investment solutions, tailored to meet the needs of private banks, wealth managers, and other financial institutions.

Solutions prides itself on innovation in the field of Structured Products. The platform covers over 1000 underlying assets across Commodities, Credit, Cryptocurrency, Equities, Fixed Income, FX and funds, enabled by technology and the Agile web platform.

For more information, see the homepage: https://solutions.marex.com

We are seeking a Full-Stack JavaScript tech lead who will help the business realise its objectives to become the most advanced provider of Structured Products globally.

A key component of their tech stack is the Sales and Clients Web Platform (aka ‘Agile’). This sophisticated application enables sales traders, brokers, and external clients to price and book live trades through a ReactJS web-based interface and suite of NodeJS and C# services that connect the back-end ecosystem of booking, execution, finance, and risk platforms.

In this role, you will have the unique opportunity to work directly with the Head of Derivatives Trading and their team - the product leaders for the app - and provide technical leadership for a diverse team of 10 developers and testers based in London and Ukraine. We are looking for candidates who are not only passionate about best practices, good software design principles, and a DevOps mindset, but also thrive in a collaborative and dynamic environment.

Responsibilities:

• Architecture and design of the technology created and maintained by the delivery team.
• Line manage the team, and optimise its structure to continuously deliver value to the business.
• Collaborate with the Head of Derivatives Trading on the direction of the application.
• Define roadmap and strategy with Head of Development and other development leads.
• Oversee projects to ensure they are run efficiently and delivered on time and on budget.
• Liaise with business users and BA/QAs; define business requirements and provide updates.
• Ensure production grade systems and proper documentation.
• Define software development best practices and processes; ensure they are followed.
• Lead the planning and breakdown of sprints and user stories. Provide demos for stakeholders and SMEs.
• Work with stakeholders to prioritise and prepare stores and bugs for sprint planning. Ensure stores are well-formed, testable deliverables that can be delivered iteratively with testable acceptance criteria.
• Resolving support issues in a professional and timely manner
• Foster cross-team collaboration and willingness to participate in cross-team shared initiatives (e.g., agreeing service and API contracts, contributing to common DevOps templates and reference architectures).

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:

• Strong full-stack JavaScript coding skills with NodeJS, TypeScript, ReactJS, jest, expressJS, GraphQL
• Able to preside over backend .NET development with C#.
• Basic level understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Terraform or equivalent.
• Building, distributing, and running applications using Docker images.
• Familiar with real-time messaging integration patterns with RabbitMQ, Kafka, Redis pub/sub or equivalent.
• Understanding of modern CI/CD and DevOps practices, and how to introduce them into the delivery workflow
• Agile and scrum development methodologies.
• Team leadership and ability to set the technical direction for a team.
• Application of software architecture and design principles and patterns and experience employing the right design choices for a given project.
• Relational and non-relational databases.
• Thought leadership, and the ability to oversee the introduction of new technologies, patterns or practices that benefit business outcomes.
• Team leadership and line management experience.

If you’re forging a career in this area and are looking for your next step, get in touch!

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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