Marex

Marex Overview

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 2,400 employees across Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. For more information visit www.marex.com.

Marex Graduate Programme

Embark on a transformative journey with Marex's Full-Time Graduate Programme - an experience tailored to empower and support Analysts. Dive into the 'Backpack to Briefcase' bootcamp, unveiling the intricacies of financial services, Marex's purpose, and strategic priorities. Join your team post-bootcamp, fostering connections through continuous training.

Learn, grow, and expand your network through a diverse array of sessions fast-tracking your understanding of Marex and the industry. Engage in workshops covering behavioural, cognitive skills, technical understanding, and business awareness, nurturing your professional development.

Throughout the programme, seize the opportunity to attend informal insight events and a lunch and learn series hosted by senior Marex Leaders. Gain exposure, ask questions, and gain real insights into the business from influential figures.

From day one, connect with a network of fellow graduates. Attend training and events together, creating bonds with those sharing your journey. Join Marex, where your passions align with purpose, and your strengths converge with our values.


Department Description

Marex Technology delivers efficiency, scalability and security for the business. The Marex Technology Department 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.

Role Summary

As a new graduate, you will have the exciting opportunity to launch your career in Financial Technology, applying your skills while receiving on-the-job coaching from our experienced technology experts. This unique combination will empower you to take charge of operational and project-related tasks within our dynamic Technology function. Located within our global Technology Hub in our London office, you will collaborate closely with a team to embark on a journey of professional growth applying business management best practice across key facets of a modern technology organisation, within a fast-paced environment.

The Technology Governance Graduate role is based within the Governance function. Technology Governance is responsible for defining Technology-wide standards, controls and reporting to ensure the Technology business is operating effectively and meeting its financial, strategic, assurance and regulatory obligations. The area covers Technology Strategy & Planning, Risk and Controls, Business Resilience, IT Service Continuity and Enterprise Architecture. Common across all disciplines is the drive to introduce and oversee effective frameworks and principles, meet governance requirements without negatively impairing productivity and improve predictability and efficiencies within Technology. Key to this is data quality and visibility of various indicators to support management information and reporting.


Overall Responsibilities

During the two year graduate programme, the Technology Governance Graduate will complete four rotations of six month duration to gain exposure and skills and deliver value across all four functional disciplines, supporting the development of enhanced management reporting:

  • Risk management
  • Strategy & planning (including cost and resource management)
  • Enterprise architecture
  • Business resilience

In each rotation, you will start by learning the fundamentals on the job and then building your experience over time to be able to take on analyst-appropriate levels of the following responsibilities:

Risk & Controls

  • Identify potential technology risks and help with developing mitigation strategies
  • Maintain the Technology risk register
  • Support the Technology Supplier Management Cycle
  • Support coordination of Technology Audit Cycles

Strategy & Planning

  • Analyse and report on technology spend, savings and budget management
  • Support Technology’s resource planning and talent acquisition sourcing/monitoring
  • Support reporting and strategic governance to ensure Technology delivery meets strategic goals
  • Provide analysis and planning support to portfolio management of the Technology change delivery book of work

Enterprise Architecture

  • Help develop and implement Architectural strategies
  • Review and enforce enterprise architecture governance processes
  • Analyse and document technology standards, patterns and best practices
  • Work with business and IT teams to understand business processes, challenges, and technology needs
  • Evaluate solution architecture designs ensuring compatibility and compliance with enterprise architecture

Business Resilience & Service Continuity

  • Maintain and improve the Firm’s resilience programs to ensure the business continuity and operational resilience arrangements are fit for purpose, embedded and in line with risk appetite
  • Support local coordinators to deliver against business resilience objectives to ‘prepare, respond and adapt’ in the event of disruption
  • Horizon scan for threats to the organisation and applicable external framework obligations (legal, regulatory)

Standard Responsibilities:

  • Ensuring 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 complying 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

The Company may require you to carry out other duties from time to time.


Skills and Experience

  • Degree educated 2:1 or higher
  • Interest in technology and technology industry trends
  • Analytical thinking to breakdown complex problems into manageable tasks
  • Microsoft office toolset
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Desirable - knowledge of working in a regulated environment and an understanding of the risks and compliance requirements associated with this

Competencies

  • A collaborative team player, approachable, self-efficient and influences a positive work environment
  • Curious and open to new ideas, information and innovative solutions
  • Resilient in a challenging, fast-paced environment
  • Excels at building relationships, networking and working effectively with others


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 Spectron 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.


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



Marex is fully committed to the elimination of unlawful or unfair discrimination and values the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the company.

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