Compliance Project Manager (VN2587) in London

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.

Compliance supports the Firm in meeting its regulatory obligations by providing expert advice, oversight and thought leadership in relation to relevant rules and regulations. Compliance is responsible for overseeing adherence to regulatory requirements and expectations through compliance policies, advisory activity, training, monitoring, surveillance and supporting the firm to implement regulatory change. Central Operations manages the group compliance plan, strategic projects, management information, change activities, compliance technology and infrastructure, regulatory permissions, costs and resources.

The Compliance Project Manager role supports the Head of Compliance Operations with change management activities across the Compliance function.

Key Areas

• Manage projects which form part of the Group Compliance Transformation portfolio.
• Lead the end-to-end implementation of key business change and regulatory projects.
• Maintenance and appropriate escalation of RAID logs.
• Perform Business Analyst activities as required in a hybrid capacity (anticipated 70/30).
• Support the Group Compliance function to help drive through ad-hoc deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of group wide Compliance projects which form part of the Group Compliance Transformation Programme.
• Plan and co-ordinate the prioritisation of Compliance change initiatives and deliverables.
• Manage Compliance projects across the project delivery lifecycle including planning, analysis, design, implementation, testing and transition to BAU.
• Develop core project artefacts including requirements documentation, testing plans, RAID logs and status reports.
• Coordinate requirement gathering and propose clear definition of the scope of a given project.
• Build and maintain strong and collaborative working relationships within Compliance, globally, and other key stakeholders in the business and risk & control functions.
• Support the Compliance team by undertaking ad-hoc compliance-related activities such as investigations or incident-related root cause analysis as directed.
• Develop an understanding of the processes, products and regulatory requirements applicable to Marex and how to assess these for compliance/regulatory/conduct risk.

Skills & Experience

Essential

• Experience of working within a small to medium sized financial services firm.
• Significant experience delivering on projects and programmes, including ‘hands-on’ delivery, through end-to-end lifecycle of delivery and transition to BAU.
• Experience of delivering on regulatory compliance change e.g. SMCR, MIFID, Trade Surveillance.
• Experience of performing gap analysis and eliciting and capturing and defining requirements.
• Experience on process modelling and improvements.
• Experience of dealing with various stakeholders (Front Office, IT, Finance, Risk, HR, 3rd Party suppliers, etc).

Desirable

• Experience of working in both a brokerage/trading firm as well as a large financial institution.