Head of Clearing Technology (Basé à London)

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.

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 Business Technology function ensures delivery of Technology services to each Marex business area. We partner with the business to optimise their technology stack, prioritise their strategic technology roadmap and drive their software delivery lifecycle. We define and agree change initiatives with the organisation’s business areas and then coordinate delivery against specific acceptance criteria. Each Business Technology team is aligned to one of Marex’s business divisions and works with a corresponding Development team and Application Support team. A global team of implementation resources coordinate and support the technology business streams with delivery.

Based in London, the Head of Clearing Technology will be responsible for the delivery of Technology services to the Marex Clearing Business. The Clearing business line within Marex is responsible for the FCM offering of Marex. Marex is a leading non-bank FCM, providing comprehensive clearing and execution services for commodities, financial futures and options. The FCM has secure access to the majority of major exchanges and OTC markets. In addition, Marex Clearing operates as a US Broker Dealer for the clearing of Equities and Equity options. This role has a global remit and will include close interaction with both UK and US clearing teams.

This role will work closely with the business owner and senior stakeholders of the clearing business to define the requirements for technology delivery. The role's other key interfaces are the Clearing business-aligned development and support functions, which have dual reporting lines to this role and a functional head (Head of Development). The functional head will ensure that standards and processes are common across all business-aligned teams, whilst this role will own the delivery of service.

This ownership and engagement with the management team of Marex Clearing will allow this role to prioritise and deliver in alignment with the defined business priorities. The size and makeup of the business stream's Technology team will be agreed between this role and the Business Owner for CTO approval to ensure a level of service that meets the expectations of an established business that is seeking to enhance their electronic engagement with clients. This will strengthen those relationships and increase Marex's stickiness as a trading partner.

• Identify and support strategic technological direction for the Marex Clearing business unit.
• Support Budgeting and Forecasting activities both with the Business Owner and the Technology organisation.
• Build and communicate roadmaps that show the high-level delivery approach over coming periods.
• Right-size the Technology footprint in Clearing with the Business Owner for a cost-effective service.
• Work closely with senior stakeholders in the business to prioritise delivery and service from Technology.
• Retain alignment to the core Technology Strategy and ensure the Marex Technology footprint is understood during change.
• Innovate new solutions, ensuring the business is always one step ahead of the competition.
• Create initiatives and epics that capture business deliverables with an agreed set of Acceptance Criteria.
• Oversee projects to ensure they are run efficiently and delivered on time and on budget.
• Prioritise and drive the business requirements. Give regular status updates.
• Ensure delivered infrastructure and systems are of production quality and adequately documented for handover to the business and/or support functions.
• Maintain familiarity with the risk, regulatory, audit and compliance requirements that apply to the business.
• Ensure delivered systems are secure, reliable and scale to meet the demands of a rapidly growing business.
• Help define best software development practices and processes. Ensure they are adhered to.
• Encourage an inclusive culture – with an appreciation of complete life cycle and consult all areas that are impacted by change.
• A collaborative team player, approachable, self-efficient and influences a positive work environment.
• Demonstrates curiosity and resilience 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.

• Detailed knowledge of FCM and Clearing products gained within a Financial Institution.
• Knowledge of vendor systems used within the Clearing space, ION, Broadridge.
• Vendor management experience – including delivery of large, vendor-centric projects.
• Product Development Experience in an Agile environment.
• Stakeholder management and business analysis.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Delivery focussed, displaying entrepreneurial and leadership skills.
• Architecting secure, reliable and scalable infrastructure and software.

• Extended knowledge across multiple asset classes – commodities advantageous.
• Trade Lifecycle knowledge. Pre-trade, Trade, settlement/clearing, Risk.
• Experience of Trading Technologies, Pricing, Risk and algo trading.
• Project planning and coordination.
• Microsoft Technologies, Cloud services, hosting and deployment.
• Experience working in a regulated environment and knowledge of the associated risk and compliance requirements.

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.