Financial Crime Compliance Officer (VN2779) 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.

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. As such, we look for new hires who have the aptitude to work across the breadth of activities a financial crime compliance function performs.

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 (i) manages our financial crime risk in line with our risk appetite (ii) meets legal and regulatory obligations in all the jurisdictions in which we operate and (iii) 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 Officer supports the Financial Crime Compliance COO Function by:

• Leading the development, collation and timely reporting of Management Information
• Supporting the Groupwide Financial Crime Risk Assessment process
• Contributing to the drafting of governance documentation and committee papers
• Assisting in the completion of global regulatory reporting activities
• Engaging with International Marex offices to support groupwide alignment

Responsibilities:

• Lead the enhancement of Financial Crime MI by engaging with stakeholders across the firm to develop and collate relevant data for governance and oversight
• Collate, validate, and present Financial Crime MI and reporting for senior stakeholders, ensuring high quality, consistency, and timely delivery
• Coordinating international integration efforts across Financial Crime, supporting alignment of processes, documentation, reporting, and MI standards
• Support the Groupwide Financial Crime Risk Assessment process, including coordinating inputs, tracking actions, and supporting the production of reporting information for review and governance
• Assist in the completion of regulatory reporting requirements across global Marex offices where controls are operated at Group level, including coordinating data collection, quality checks, and approvals
• Assist in drafting and maintaining Financial Crime governance documentation, including policies/procedures (where applicable), department governance documents, and committee packs for senior management
• Supporting initial due diligence efforts for business change initiatives and acquisitions
• Maintain MI trackers, logs, and supporting documentation (e.g., actions, issues, and governance decisions), ensuring auditability and effective record keeping
• Support ad hoc Financial Crime projects as required, including control enhancement projects, preparation of materials for stakeholder engagement, and continuous improvement of MI and reporting processes

Skills:

• Strong MI collation and reporting capability, including the ability to collect inputs, validate completeness/accuracy, and present outputs clearly for senior stakeholders
• Excellent written communication skills: able to draft clear, concise governance documents and committee papers, and to summarise complex information for different audiences
• Strong organisation and attention to detail; able to manage multiple deadlines, maintain trackers/logs, and ensure evidence is retained appropriately
• Stakeholder management: has the skills and desire to build relationships with colleagues across the organisation
• Execution focused with high levels of personal effectiveness and the ability to deliver at pace while maintaining quality
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint

Experience:

• Demonstrable Financial Crime experience in financial services
• Experience producing MI and reporting for senior stakeholders
• Experience coordinating cross-functionally and across multiple jurisdictions/time zones (e.g., for risk assessments, governance submissions, or regulatory reporting)

Competencies:

• A collaborative team player, approachable, self-efficient and influences a positive work environment
• Demonstrates curiosity
• Resilient 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

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. Also, Marex is committed to avoiding circumstances in which the appearance or possibility of conflicts of interest may exist within the hiring process. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or would like us to do anything differently to help you, please include it in your application.