Description
About Marex 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 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. 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 Legal Entity Control team work on a range of projects as well as management and statutory reporting and control. The team is charged with ensuring the firm meets the financial reporting and control obligations of a global regulated group For more information visit www.marex.com (http://www.marex.com/) Role Summary The purpose of this role is to be a key member of the existing Legal Entity Control (LEC) team and ensure the integrity of the Group and entity financial information. The role would cover and support all aspects of finance that falls under the LEC Team. Overall Responsibilities The major deliverables of the Legal Entity Control team are: - Preparation of annual financial statements for a number of entities under various accounting standards (IFRS, US GAAP, FRS102 mainly); - Prepare monthly analytical review on legal entity income statement and balance sheet; - Managing the month end process to Group reporting deadlines; - Preparation of monthly management reports; - Preparation of monthly transfer pricing calculations and subsequent reporting; - Preparation, review and challenge of balance sheet reconciliations; - Manage ad-hoc inquiries from external auditors; - Involvement in developing and enhancing existing processes; - Integration of new acquisitions into the monthly reporting cycle; - Design and implement of a world class control environment; and - This individual would play a pivotal role in improving the control environment. In addition, this individual would be expected to assist across the entire financial control team. Company Standard Responsibilities - Ensuring compliance with the company's regulatory requirements under any applicable regulator. - 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. Skills and Experience - Big 4 audit background is preferred but not essential - Experience in preparation of audited financial statements under UK GAAP or IFRS is an advantage - Group Management accounting and reconciliation experience (transfer pricing / intercompany / cross charging etc) - A track record of improving processes and adding value to clients/stakeholders - Strong analytical, organisation and documentation skills - Strong verbal and written communication skills - Strong Microsoft Excel - Qualified Accountant Competencies - Strong analytical skill - 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 technical accounting skills - You demonstrate strong 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 - Demonstrates curiosity. - Resilient in a challenging, fast-paced environment. - Ability to take a high level of responsibility. - Strategic collaborator with insight and agility, able to anticipate future challenges, ensuring operational effectiveness. Conduct Rules You must: - Act with integrity - Act with due skill, care and diligence - Be open and cooperative with the FCA, the PRA and other regulators - Pay due regard to the interests of customers and treat them fairly - Observe proper standard of market conduct - Act to deliver good outcomes for retail customers Marex is fully committed to the elimination of unlawful or unfair discrimination and values the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the company. LI-MH1