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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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We are seeking an experienced Senior Counterparty Exposure Risk Manager to oversee the counterparty exposures of Marex Solutions business. The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring robust risk management, monitoring exposures, and partnering with trading, structuring, and control functions to manage risk across multiple asset classes.
Responsibilities:
• Risk Oversight: Monitor and manage counterparty exposures and market risk of Marex Solutions global business, with a focus on OTC derivatives and structured and exotic derivatives in Commodities, FX, Rates & Credit, Digital Assets and cross-asset products.
• Risk Analysis: Evaluate derivative structures, assess embedded risks, and ensure they are appropriately captured in risk systems and metrics.
• Risk and Limit Frameworks: Define, review, enhance risk measurements and methodologies, and enforce risk limits; challenge the adequacy of risk-taking activities relative to approved risk appetite.
• Product Coverage: Provide independent risk assessment of new products and complex structures, ensuring risks are well understood and controlled.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Partner with sales and trading teams, structuring, model validation, finance, and risk methodology teams to ensure accurate pricing, valuation, and risk representation.
• Governance & Reporting: Deliver clear and timely risk reporting to senior management, highlighting key risk drivers, trends, and emerging risks.
• Regulatory Compliance: Ensure adherence to internal policies and external regulatory requirements, including stress testing, capital requirements, and market conduct standards.
Skills & ECompetencies:
• Technical & Analytical Skills
o Risk Identification & Assessment: Skill in analysing potential operational, financial, and strategic risks using qualitative and quantitative methods.
o Risk Analysis: Proficiency in using programming tools (e.g., Python, SQL, advanced Excel and PowerBI) for risk forecasting, scenario analysis, and stress testing.
o Product Knowledge: A deep understanding of multiple asset classes (equities, fixed income, commodities, FX, derivatives) including their valuation and associated pricing models.
o Regulatory Compliance: In-depth knowledge of relevant regulatory frameworks and ensuring the company remains compliant.
• Leadership & Interpersonal Skills
o Communication & Stakeholder Management: The ability to articulate complex risk concepts and findings clearly and persuasively to diverse audiences, including senior management, traders, and regulatory bodies.
o Collaboration: Proven experience in managing key stakeholders and coordinating across cross-functional teams.
o Problem-Solving & Decision-Making: The ability to analyse issues, draw on expert advice, and make sound, well-reasoned recommendations under pressure.
o Strategic Thinking & Business Acumen: The capacity to link risk management practices with overall business objectives and provide insights that align with the organization's goals and strategies.
Experience and Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related quantitative discipline; CFA/FRM is a plus.
• Circa 15+ years of market risk or trading/structuring experience within a leading financial institution, with exposure to structured and exotic derivatives.
• Deep understanding of derivative pricing models and risk sensitivities across multiple asset classes (Equity, FX, Rates, Credit, Commodities and Digital assets).
• Strong knowledge of risk management frameworks, stress testing methodologies, and capital/regulatory requirements.
• Excellent analytical skills and ability to interpret complex risks into clear, actionable insights.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to challenge senior stakeholders and present risk issues concisely.
• Familiarity with risk systems (e.g. Sophis, Bloomberg or in-house platforms) and corresponding data flows. Programming skills (Python, VBA, SQL and PowerBI) highly advantageous.
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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