Accounts Payable/Receivable Controller - Tangent Trading

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.

Tangent Trading combines financial strength with a global network of customers and suppliers to provide quality recycled metals services. Part of the Marex Group since 2020, Tangent Trading is a leading non-ferrous recycled metals trader, specialising in copper and aluminium. We are looking for an Accounts payable/Receivable (AP/AR) Controller within our growing physical recycled metals business. Reporting into Tangent Trading Limited’s Financial Controller, the successful candidate will be primarily responsible for providing key support across a range of AP/AR related business critical, financial, operational and system functions, and will also act as a liaison point between Tangent and other Marex departments. In addition to operating within their core function, there will also be significant exposure to the wider finance and business departments, including the Trading, Product Control and Shipping within Tangent as well as within the wider Marex Group.

Responsibilities

• Collating, reviewing and processing multiple daily supplier and customer payments ensuring 100% accuracy in a fast-paced and complex environment.
• Ensuring that all daily bank, cash systems and ledger controls and reconciliations are completed on time and to a high quality.
• Responsible for daily communications with suppliers and customers and the bank regarding payments including dealing with queries and resolving sometimes difficult issues.
• Involvement in compiling the business’s regular cashflow forecasting updates and planning and communicating our funding requirements with Group Treasury and other stakeholders.
• Extensive liaison with immediate colleagues, Group Treasury, the Hong Kong and Singapore Controller teams and many other departments across the Marex Group.
• Exposure to the month end close processing and reporting. Includes elements of balance sheet and P&L close, cash-related journal entry / review, and balance sheet substantiation.
• Become one of Tangent’s Quor/Brady Fintrade system superusers (the company’s CTRM platform).

Skills and Experience

• Early career or part-qualified/QBE finance professional with a background gained within a busy professional organisation.
• Experience within financial services or a commodities business is desirable but not essential.
• Highly proficient analytical and numerical skills; able to process and analyse financial and operational data, execute banking transactions and problem solve / troubleshoot.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written. Able to deal confidently with colleagues and with external counterparties.
• Highly adaptable, curious, and possessing a keen interest in understanding all aspects of the business and in improving its processes.
• Strong hands-on systems skills encompassing intermediate-advanced MS Excel, MS Office. Knowledge of Brady/Quor Fintrade or other CTRM systems would be a benefit.
• Strong communication skills, particularly dealing with suppliers, customers and the banks.
• Resilient in a challenging, fast-paced and highly pressured environment with tight deadlines.
• Ability to take a high level of responsibility in a fast pace and high-volume environment.
• A collaborative team player, approachable, self-efficient and influences a positive work environment.
• Excels at building relationships, networking and influencing others.
• 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

Company Values

• 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.