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.
Role Summary
Accounts Payable/Receivable Controller provides support to the physical trading business. The role is responsible for a range of Accounts Payable and Receivable related financial, operational and systems functions and will also act as a liaison point between Tangent and other Marex departments.
All employees are expected to understand and comply with any Sarbanes Oxley operational requirements relevant to their role.
Overall Responsibilities
- Collating, reviewing and processing multiple daily supplier payments ensuring 100% accuracy in a fast-paced and complex environment.
- Booking and reviewing receipts in relation to physical commodities sales
- Ensuring that all daily bank, cash systems and ledger controls and reconciliations are completed on time and to a high quality.
- Responsible for daily communications with Suppliers and the bank regarding payments including dealing with queries and resolving sometimes difficult issues.
- Involvement in compiling the business’s regular cashflow forecasting updates and planning and communicating our funding requirements with Group Treasury and other stakeholders.
- Extensive liaison with immediate colleagues, Group Treasury, the Hong Kong Controller team and many other departments across the Marex Group.
- Exposure to the month end close processing and reporting. Includes elements of balance sheet and P&L close, cash-related journal entry / review, and balance sheet substantiation.
- 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.
Standard Responsibilities
- Ensuring compliance with the company’s regulatory requirements under the appropriate regulatory bodies.
- 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
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written. Able to deal confidently with colleagues and with external counterparties.
- A collaborative team player, approachable, self-efficient and influences a positive work environment
- Demonstrates curiosity
- Resilient in a challenging, fast-paced environment
- Ability to take a high level of responsibility in a fast pace and high-volume environment.
- Excels at building relationships, networking and influencing others
Skills and Experience
- Early career or part-qualified/QBE finance professional with a background gained within a busy professional organization. Experience within financial services or a commodities business is desirable but not essential.
- Highly proficient analytical and numerical skills; able to process and analyze financial and operational data, execute banking transactions and problem solve / troubleshoot
- Highly adaptable, curious, and possessing a keen interest in understanding all aspects of the business and in improving its processes
- Strong hands-on systems skills encompassing intermediate-advanced MS Excel, MS Office.
- Knowledge of Brady/Quor Fintrade, Ion Aspecty, or other CTRM systems would be a benefit
- Experience working in a regulated environment and knowledge of the risk and compliance requirements associated with this.
Company Values
Acting as a role model for the values of the Company:
Be collaborative - by working together across the organization, we foster teamwork, can better respond to challenges and successfully deliver for our clients
Act with integrity - we pride ourselves on our honesty and high ethical standards. We apply these values when working with all our clients, colleagues and other stakeholders
Be adaptable and entrepreneurial - we embrace change as markets evolve to constantly increase our efficiency and create innovative solutions for our clients. We are interested in the world around us and inquisitive about understanding the challenges and opportunities our clients face.
Be respectful – how we treat each other, and our clients says everything about who we are. We always act respectfully and treat people fairly in everything we do.
Nurture talent – we aim to grow our own talent and make Marex the place ambitious, hardworking and talented people choose to build their career. This means giving and taking stretch opportunities, taking risks, and committing to career development and support – for ourselves and our teams.
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 (where applicable)
- 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