Technology Risk and Controls Associate

Diversified. Resilient. Dynamic.

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:

The Technology Risk and Controls Associate oversees the Technology Risk framework and modernizes the organization's Technology governance controls to ensure compliance with policies.

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.

The Technology Department delivers differentiation, scalability and security for the business. Reporting to the COO, Technology provides digital tools, software services and infrastructure globally to all business groups. Software development and support teams work in agile ‘streams' aligned to specific business areas. Our other teams work enterprise-wide to provide critical services including our global service desk, network and system infrastructure, IT operations, security, enterprise architecture and design.

Technology Governance is responsible for defining Technology-wide standards, controls and reporting to ensure the Technology business is operating effectively and meeting its financial, strategic, assurance and regulatory obligations. The area covers Technology Strategy & Planning, Risk and Controls, Business Resilience, IT Service Continuity and Enterprise Architecture.

Responsibilities:

• Assist in the preparation and guidance of IT and business stakeholders for audit assessment, including pre-audit readiness activities, controls verification, and documentation collection.
• ]Act as the primary liaison between IT, business units, and external/internal auditors during IT audit engagements.
• Manage and coordinate Requests for Information (RFIs) by gathering, reviewing, validating, and delivering required artifacts in a timely and organized manner.
• Lead the planning, scheduling, and execution of meetings, tasks, and other activities related to IT audits. This includes preparing agendas, tracking action items, providing regular status updates, and escalating potential issues to internal stakeholders in a timely manner
•  Establish and maintain professional work relationships with IT SMEs, Business Application and Systems Owners, external and internal auditors.
• Provide support for remediation and mitigation efforts related to technology risk items
•  Support vendor management activities.
• Prepare for, attend, and contribute to governance meetings as required.
• 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

• 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 other Strategic collaborator with insight and agility, able to anticipate future challenges, ensuring operational effectiveness

Skills and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field desired
• Understanding of SOX 404 IT General Controls
• Experience of working in a regulated environment and with stakeholders across Operational Risk, Audit and Compliance.
• Experience working in a regulated environment and knowledge of the risk and compliance requirements associated with this.
• Practical experience of working with Quality Management Systems, ideally with ISO27001 Foundation certification or above.
• Risk Management – experience of facilitating the management of risks, ideally with a formal accreditation (e.g. ISO31000 or Management of Risk).
• IT Service Management – understanding of the disciplines required to design, develop, transition and operate technology services, ideally with a formal ITIL v4 certification.
• Practical experience of managing small project deliveries and improvement roadmaps.
• Experience of authoring process and procedure documentation.
• Experience working in a regulated environment and knowledge of the risk and compliance requirements associated with this.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Salary Range:  $100,000 to $140,000 per year and eligible for discretionary bonus.

Marex Benefits for 2025

Company Values

Acting as a role model for the values of the Company:

Respect 

– Clients are at the heart of our business, with superior execution and superb client service the foundation of the firm. We respect our clients and always treat them fairly.

Integrity
– Doing business the right way is the only way. We hold ourselves to a high ethical standard in everything we do – our clients expect this and we demand it of ourselves.

Collaborative
– We work in teams – open and direct communication and the willingness to work hard and collaboratively are the basis for effective teamwork. Working well with others is necessary for us to succeed at what we do.

Developing our People
– Our people are the basis of our competitive advantage. We look to “grow our own” and make Marex the place ambitious, hardworking, talented people choose to build their careers.

Adaptable and Nimble
– Our size and flexibility is an advantage. We are big enough to support our client's various needs, and adaptable and nimble enough to respond quickly to changing conditions or requirements. A non-bureaucratic, but well controlled environment fosters initiative as well as employee satisfaction.

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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