Repo Desk Trading Assistant

Diversified. Resilient. Dynamic.

Marex is a 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.

With more than 35 offices around the globe, and over 2,300 dedicated people enabling access to exchanges and technology-powered services.

For more information visit www.marex.com

Purpose of Role:

The Repo Trading Assistant supports the US Repo Desk and assists with all aspects of support for sales and trading. Primary focus of role is on day-to-day deliverables, developing solutions based upon subject expertise and occasionally representing the relevant department at a broader level across the group.

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.

Capital Markets is a division of Marex offering a range of products and services to clients as well as to internal trading desks.

Responsibilities: 

• Support trading and sales for repo business, including:
  • Execute and book tickets for daily margin calls.
  • Execute trade tickets.
  • Resolve trade discrepancies.
  • Work across departments internally to insure proper trade details and settlements.

• Work with senior trading and sales colleagues to acquire in-depth knowledge of repo markets.
• Support data analytics for daily reporting.
• Train for, and successfully pass, FINRA licensing tests.
• Ensure effective delivery of processes and project deliverables to the business and broad Company group.
• Ensuring compliance with the company’s regulatory requirements under the SEC, FINRA, NFA, CFTC and other applicable exchanges.
• 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
  • Carrying out regulatory activities under the Marex Financial and MSIL trading books
  • Liaising with clients in US; clients include banks, hedge funds, market makers, fund managers, institutional, trading houses and other trading boutiques.
  • 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 verbal written and communication skills
• A collaborative team player, that is approachable, self-efficient and influences a positive work environment
• Demonstrates curiosity
• Ability to take a high level of responsibility
• Excels at building relationships, networking and influencing others
• Resilient in a challenging, fast-paced environment
• Strategic collaborator with insight and agility, able to anticipate future challenges, ensuring operational effectiveness

Skills and Experience

• Diligent, accurate and process-driven in attitude to carrying out work
• Strong relationship builder, particularly with finding out information or initiating actions
• Understanding about the front to back processing of Capital Markets products
• Understanding of the applicable governance, legal and regulatory frameworks relevant to these products
• Self-motivated, confident, and resilient - able to strive within a profitability driven environment
• Proficient in Microsoft Office - (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, 365, etc.)
• Entrepreneurial and leadership skills will be highly considered
• FINRA SIE, Series 7 & Series 63 preferred or ability to study for and successfully pass within 6 months of hire
• Experience working in a regulated environment and knowledge of the risk and compliance requirements associated with this
• Bachelor’s Degree (e.g., business administration, finance, economics and/or a related field). 

Salary Range: $60,000 to $75,000 per year base salary and eligible for discretionary bonus.
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.
We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by the law.
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