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.
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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 Controls Manager is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the ongoing effectiveness of the firm’s global financial crime control framework, as well as managing and executing the integration of financial crime controls for acquisitions and other relevant business change initiatives.
This role ensures robust controls are in place to mitigate risks related to anti-money laundering (AML), counter-terrorist financing (CTF), fraud, bribery and corruption, sanctions, and other financial crimes.
Responsibilities:
• Design, maintain, and embed core Financial Crime controls across the Group, including for newly acquired entities and during post acquisition integration, • Payments
• Transaction monitoring
• Sanctions screening
• Fraud detection and prevention
• Crypto monitoring
• Customer and jurisdictional risk assessment methodologies
• Other controls as agreed within Financial Crime Compliance
• Provide robust second line oversight and challenge across control design and effectiveness, including assessing the impact of acquisitions and material business change, advising on remediation priorities, and escalating material risks and issues to senior Financial Crime Compliance management as appropriate
• Own and drive the remediation of Audit, Assurance, and integration-related actions relating to the Financial Crime Compliance control environment, ensuring delivery in line with agreed timelines
• Reporting to the Head of Financial Crime Controls and the Financial Crime Compliance Management team, provide clear and timely status updates on business change and acquisition integration activities, key risks, issues, and relevant management information, including contributions to external reporting (e.g. MLRO reports and regulatory submissions)
• Engage Technology and other key stakeholders to implement, integrate, and optimise financial crime systems and controls, including during acquisitions, system migrations, and platform rationalisation, ensuring vendor-managed solutions remain aligned to control objectives and regulatory expectations
• Work closely with the first line, including onboarding / KYC and operational teams, to embed financial crime controls during business growth, acquisition integration, and operating model changes, ensuring clear ownership and effective second line oversight and challenge
• Oversee all Financial Crime Compliance considerations arising from business change, including new acquisitions, new products, geographies, delivery channels, and customer types, providing structured risk assessment and control guidance
• Lead and manage Financial Crime Compliance integration for acquisitions and strategic business change programmes, including:
• Project managing and executing post acquisition Financial Crime controls integration
• Conducting structured control and framework reviews, including AML and sanctions assessments, policy and procedure alignment, systems assessments, training requirements, and local regulatory considerations
• Proactive stakeholder engagement (internal and external) to ensure integration requirements are clearly understood and risks are identified and escalated appropriately
• Representing Financial Crime Compliance, where delegated, at governance and integration forums
• Streamlining, harmonising, and embedding Financial Crime controls post acquisition to drive consistency, efficiency, and control effectiveness
• Manage vendor and third party relationships, including those inherited from acquired businesses, ensuring appropriate oversight and delivery of cost efficiencies where applicable
• Assess emerging technologies and tools to support scalable Financial Crime control integration and future business growth
Skills:
• Meticulous attention to detail, particularly when assessing control design, and post‑acquisition integration activities
• Exceptional written skills: able to articulate issues and risk precisely
• Organised and methodical, with the ability to manage multiple concurrent acquisition and business change initiatives
• Stakeholder management: has the skills and desire to build relationships with colleagues across the organisation. We are looking for individuals that people enjoy working with
• Strong understanding of operational processes, controls and enabling technology, including how these transition and evolve during acquisitions and business change
• Open to robust challenge, able to both defend their position and change it based on logic and judgement.
• Execution focused with high levels of personal effectiveness and the ability to deliver complex acquisition and business change workstreams at pace
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, including the ability to analyse data, track integration actions, and produce management information
Experience:
• Significant experience in a compliance environment in financial services
• Proven experience in managing acquisition/business change acquisition projects and programmes, including ‘hands-on’ delivery, through end-to-end lifecycle of delivery and transition to BAU
• Able to display judgement and understanding of core financial crime risk concepts
• Experience of working within a medium sized financial services firm
• Experience working in a regulated environment and knowledge of the risk and compliance requirements associated with this
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.
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