Business Manager - COO Team - Capital Markets

TN United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm is seeking a Business Manager for its COO team within Capital Markets in London. This role involves supporting operational frameworks, driving process improvements, and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. The ideal candidate will possess strong problem-solving skills, excellent communication abilities, and a solid understanding of capital markets.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of Marex product offerings and Capital Markets processes.
• Experience in a regulated environment with compliance knowledge.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Support delivery of new business initiatives and improve existing processes.
• Create and review MI and KPIs to monitor business performance.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and company standards.

Skills

Problem Solving

Communication

Collaboration

Resilience

Strategic Insight

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Business Manager - COO Team - Capital Markets, London

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Client:

Marex

Location:

London, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Job Reference:

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Posted:

19.05.2025

Expiry Date:

03.07.2025

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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.

Capital Markets is Marex's largest division, serving a wide range of clients with ever-increasing product scope and coverage. The Capital Markets division provides liquidity and hedging solutions in equities, credit, financing, FX and rates, and our execution platform encompasses electronic orders via most global trading venues, direct access to exchanges where required, intelligent arbitrage and risk minimisation across a broad range of liquidity pools.

For more information visit www.marex.com

Role Summary

• Capital Markets is a division of Marex offering a arrange of products and services to clients as well as to internal trading desks.
• This role will be supporting the COO team to establish the frameworks and controls around the Capital Markets Business. To drive improvement within existing and new processes and documentation.
• You will play a key role in building the operational infrastructure to support the sustainable growth of this business.
• You will be a key support for any change and new business initiatives delivered by Senior Business Managers and as such help build the delivery plans and targets, enabling the effective and controlled growth and integrating expansion opportunities when they arise.
• As a liaison between the Capital Markets business and Control & Support functions of the wider group, you will be a key contact and go to person.

Responsibilities

In this role you will be exposed to a wide range of tasks and projects, including:

• Support the delivery of new business initiatives, aided by Senior Business Managers in the team, following and improving the groups change process.
  • Demonstrate the ability to challenge new business initiatives to ensure they are aligned with business strategy and sensible from a cost/ benefit aspect
  • Offer support to all senior business managers and members of the COO team
  • Deliver effective communication with key stakeholders
  • Responsible for establishing Project plans, identifying scope
  • Develop expertise in a specific business areas / asset class to become a designated Business Manager for desks across the division.
• Creating, reviewing and improve existing MI and KPIs to effectively monitor and steer the business
• Creating transparency around costs and budgets and driving efficiencies and cost reductions and proactively trying to rationalise costs where possible
• Offer insight to the Capital Markets cost base and budget, including initiating and implementing measures to control and reduce them in a sustainable manner
• Driving change for the Capital Markets division by establishing new processes, reviewing existing ones and identifying enhancements
• Supporting the assessment of existing platforms and delivering the IT strategy for the Capital Markets division

Furthermore, you are expected to:

• Ensure compliance with the company's regulatory requirements
• Adhere to the operational risk framework for your role ensuring that all regulatory or company determined parameters are complied with
• Be a role model for demonstrating highest level standards of integrity and conduct and reflecting Company Values
• At all times comply with the FCA's Code of Conduct
• 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
• Report any breaches of policy to Compliance and/ or your supervisor as required
• Escalate risk events immediately
• Provide input to risk management processes, as required.

Skills and Experience

• Good knowledge and understanding of Marex product offerings
• Strong basis and understanding of Capital Markets processes and products
• Can independently identify and solve problems
• Experience working in a regulated environment and knowledge of the risk and compliance requirements associated with this.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• A collaborative team player, approachable, self-efficient and influences a positive work environment
• 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

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

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.