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Marex is a 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 major 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.
With more than 35 offices around the globe, and over 2,300 dedicated people enabling access to exchanges and technology-powered services.
For more information visit www.marex.com
Purpose of Role:
Marex is recruiting for a Surveillance Compliance officer to join the team our at our New York office. The role will primarily focus on Surveillance (Trade Activity and Communications) across a range of asset classes (Cash Equity, Fixed Income, Commodities, Derivatives (Futures, Options, Swaps)) on multiple exchanges, trading platforms and venues with an opportunity to gain exposure to a wider range of compliance activities at a market-leading firm.
Marex has unique access across markets with significant share globally both on and off exchange. The depth of knowledge amongst its teams and divisions provides its customers with clear advantage, and its technology-led service provides access to all major exchanges, order-flow management via screen, voice and DMA, plus award-winning data, insights and analytics.
In the ever-evolving financial landscape, Compliance has become increasingly complex. Marex must navigate a wide range of regulatory requirements to maintain licenses and protect Marex’s reputation. Compliance and Compliance Officers play a crucial role in ensuring that all activities are conducted in accordance with the law.
Compliance Officers monitor transactions, conduct regular audits, train employees on regulatory requirements, and implement policies and procedures to minimize non-compliance risks. Compliance efforts are instrumental in fostering a compliant culture within Marex and ensuring that all employees understand their responsibilities.
Furthermore, Compliance is a bridge between Marex and regulatory authorities. Compliance is responsible for responding to inquiries, providing necessary documentation, and cooperating with regulatory examinations and investigations. This collaboration is essential in maintaining a healthy and transparent relationship between Marex and regulatory bodies.
Responsibilities:
- Provide E-communications, Voice, and Trade Surveillance review services to US Broker Dealer (BD) and FCM business lines
- Review alerts with due consideration in a timely fashion, maintaining queues within guidelines
- Use technical expertise and Surveillance toolset to make determinations on whether or not an alert is a true positive or false positive, closing false positives with proper documentation including explanatory reasoning.
- Seek additional clarifying information from Clients/Traders as appropriate.
- .Escalate potential true positives to management with proper documentation, including rationale.
- Notify Employee’s Supervisor or Client of confirmed True Positive.
- Follow up on open issues as needed.
- Produce metrics on Surveillance reviews to the Head of US Surveillance
- Clearly delineated by date, business line, desk, alert type, client, and trader.
- Participate in ongoing improvement of the Surveillance function
- Testing of trade data and OMS/EMS systems to ensure the quality and completeness of data being input to the Surveillance tools
- Actively suggesting potential enhancements that would
- Increase discovery of True Positives.
- Reclassify False Negatives to True Positives.
- Reduce the quantity of False Positives without decreasing True Positives.
- Calibration testing for new and existing scenario.
- Documented UAT Review of new scenarios.
- Provide Surveillance expertise to BD and FCM Advisory Compliance, adding context and counsel to the objective response.
- Communicate and coordinate with colleagues in Compliance and the business to ensure efficacious processes.
- Maintain and grow industry knowledge by actively following relevant news events and regulator action.
- Other Surveillance services as assigned.
- Ensuring compliance with the company’s regulatory requirements under the SEC, FINRA, NFA, CFTC and other applicable exchanges.
- Adhere to the operational risk framework for your role ensuring that all regulatory or company determined parameters are complied with.
- Role model for demonstrating highest level standards of integrity and conduct and reflecting Company Values.
- At all times complying with Marex’s Code of Conduct:
- To ensure that you are fully aware of and adhere to internal policies that relate to you, your role or any other activities for which you have any level of responsibility.
- To report any breaches of policy to Compliance and/ or your supervisor as required.
- To escalate risk events immediately.
- To provide input to risk management processes, as required.
The Company may require you to carry out other duties from time to time.
Competencies, Skills and Experience:
Competencies
- Demonstrable curiosity.
- Resilience in a challenging, fast-paced environment.
- Ability to communicate across geography, business function, corporate level, and experience set.
- Unimpeachable character with integrity that guides all decisions.
- Excellence in building relationships, networking and influencing other.
- Self-starter with an ability to prioritize and manage multiple deliverables from beginning to completion.
- A collaborative team player, approachable, self-efficient and influences a positive work environment.
- Strategic collaborator with insight and agility, able to anticipate future challenges, ensuring operational effectiveness.
Skills and Experience
Essential:
- Excellent understanding of financial markets.
- Data analysis and interpretation skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.).
- Organizational and time-management skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Existing Surveillance experience in a financial markets context.
- Experience working in a regulated environment and knowledge of the risk and compliance requirements associated with this.
Desired:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Economics, Business, or other related field.
- Experience working for a regulated exchange or Regulator.
- Experience developing strategic Artificial Intelligent (AHI) solutions for Surveillance or Compliance.
- FINRA Series 7,24; NFA Series 3, Swaps Proficiency Long Track.
- CAMS Certification
Salary Range: $125,000 to $175,000 per year base salary and eligible for discretionary bonus.
Marex Benefits for 2026
Company Values:
- Be collaborative - by working together across the organization, we foster teamwork, can better respond to challenges and successfully deliver for our clients
- Act with integrity - we pride ourselves on our honesty and high ethical standards. We apply these values when working with all our clients, colleagues and other stakeholders
- Be adaptable and entrepreneurial - we embrace change as markets evolve to constantly increase our efficiency and create innovative solutions for our clients. We are interested in the world around us and inquisitive about understanding the challenges and opportunities our clients face.
- Be respectful – how we treat each other, and our clients says everything about who we are. We always act respectfully and treat people fairly in everything we do.
- Nurture talent – we aim to grow our own talent and make Marex the place ambitious, hardworking and talented people choose to build their career. This means giving and taking stretch opportunities, taking risks, and committing to career development and support – for ourselves and our teams.
Marex is fully committed to the elimination of unlawful or unfair discrimination and values the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the company.
We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by the law.
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