Senior Reporting & Planning 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.

The Reporting team is a newly created team over the past 18 months who work on a range of projects as well as have responsibility for external financial reporting. The team is charged with ensuring the firm meets the financial reporting and control obligations of a global regulated group. This is a newly created key senior role within the Group Finance team in Marex. The purpose of this role is to be a key member of the Reporting and broader finance team to manage the end-to-end delivery of the Group’s external reporting activities, managing all cross functional inputs from across the Group. Additionally, this individual will be proficient to oversee and manage the Group’s earnings release.

This role requires a senior finance professional with extensive experience in project management, reporting, and stakeholder management skills. They will be proficient in project planning, execution, monitoring, and control, while also developing and implementing robust reporting systems in a controlled environment.

• Oversee and manage all aspects of the Group’s external reporting timetable and inputs whilst also reviewing and overseeing the Group’s earnings release to manage investor demands.
• Assist the Head of Reporting in ensuring that all external reporting deliverables are met within required deadlines.
• Prepare and oversee the end to end Group reporting plan by identifying key inputs from all teams across the Group, not just within finance.
• Lead and oversee the successful delivery of the external reporting timeline, managing critical path activities, identifying key hand-in and hand-offs between teams and functions, escalating challenges and issues where required appropriately and on a timely basis.
• Develop, implement, and maintain comprehensive plan to track progress, performance, and key metrics.
• Management of the external auditors and resolution of queries ensuring relevant Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) are meeting their obligations.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, keeping them informed about status and addressing their concerns.
• Oversee the production of the Group’s earnings release and related investor relations documents in conjunction with the Group Investor Relations team.
• Management of debrief items and implementation of corrective actions in future reporting cycles to maintain a culture of continuous improvement within finance.
• This individual would play a pivotal role in improving the control environment.
• Other ad hoc finance project management activities where required.

• Big 4 background is preferred but not essential.
• Proven experience in project management in a senior role, with a track record of successfully managing complex projects.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly and concisely communicate project information to stakeholders.
• Strong interpersonal and team management skills, with the ability to motivate and guide cross functional teams.
• Strong analytical, organisation and documentation skills.
• Strong Microsoft Excel (Essential) & Microsoft Project (preferred but not essential).
• Qualified Accountant with substantial PQE.
• Strong analytical skills – You demonstrate an aptitude for problem solving with the ability to exercise sound and balanced judgment in a highly regulated environment.
• Functional expertise – Enjoy keeping up-to-date with emerging business, economic, and market trends.
• Strong accounting skills – You demonstrate ability to understand and communicate technical skills, pay attention to detail, take initiative to broaden your knowledge and resolve accounting issues.
• Personal drive and motivation – Successfully handle multiple tasks, take initiative to improve your own performance, work intensely towards challenging goals.
• A client and business focus – Effectively handle difficult requests, build trusting, long-term relationships with clients, help the client to identify/define needs and manages client/business expectations.
• Strong teamwork ethic – You are a strong team player with excellent interpersonal skills. You collaborate well with others within and across teams, encourage other team members to participate and contribute and acknowledges others’ contributions.

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.