Financial Crime Compliance Controls Manager (VN2769)

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.

The Global Financial Crime Compliance team comprises c.20 full time staff based in London, New York, and Chicago, supported by a further c.7 (FTE) staff based in other international offices. We are a small team covering the full breadth of financial crime risk management and across the Firm’s broad and growing product and geographical range.

The Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) function forms part of the Second Line of Defence in the Firm’s Three Lines of Defence model. FCC is responsible for designing and maintaining a robust financial crime prevention framework that manages our financial crime risk in line with our risk appetite, meets legal and regulatory obligations in all the jurisdictions in which we operate, and harnesses industry practice and standards.

As part of its role, FCC provides oversight and challenge of First Line of Defence’s financial crime risk management activities and associated systems and controls. The Financial Crime Compliance Controls Manager is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the ongoing effectiveness of the firm’s global financial crime control framework, as well as managing and executing the integration of financial crime controls for acquisitions and other relevant business change initiatives. This role ensures robust controls are in place to mitigate risks related to anti-money laundering (AML), counter-terrorist financing (CTF), fraud, bribery and corruption, sanctions, and other financial crimes.

Responsibilities:

• Design, maintain, and embed core Financial Crime controls across the Group, including for newly acquired entities and during post acquisition integration.
• Provide robust second line oversight and challenge across control design and effectiveness, including assessing the impact of acquisitions and material business change.
• Own and drive the remediation of Audit, Assurance, and integration-related actions relating to the Financial Crime Compliance control environment.
• Reporting to the Head of Financial Crime Controls and the Financial Crime Compliance Management team, provide clear and timely status updates on business change and acquisition integration activities.
• Engage Technology and other key stakeholders to implement, integrate, and optimise financial crime systems and controls.
• Work closely with the first line, including onboarding/KYC and operational teams, to embed financial crime controls during business growth.
• Oversee all Financial Crime Compliance considerations arising from business change.
• Lead and manage Financial Crime Compliance integration for acquisitions and strategic business change programmes.
• Manage vendor and third-party relationships, ensuring appropriate oversight and delivery of cost efficiencies.
• Assess emerging technologies and tools to support scalable Financial Crime control integration.

Skills:

• Meticulous attention to detail, particularly when assessing control design.
• Exceptional written skills: able to articulate issues and risk precisely.
• Organised and methodical, with the ability to manage multiple concurrent acquisition and business change initiatives.
• Stakeholder management: has the skills and desire to build relationships with colleagues across the organisation.
• Strong understanding of operational processes, controls and enabling technology.
• Open to robust challenge, able to both defend their position and change it based on logic and judgement.
• Execution focused with high levels of personal effectiveness.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, including the ability to analyse data and produce management information.

Experience:

• Significant experience in a compliance environment in financial services.
• Proven experience in managing acquisition/business change acquisition projects and programmes.
• Able to display judgement and understanding of core financial crime risk concepts.
• Experience of working within a medium sized financial services firm.
• Experience working in a regulated environment and knowledge of the risk and compliance requirements.
• 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.

Equal Opportunity Employer: 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.