Marex Looking for Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis at Chicago, IL Full Time

Marex is a diversified 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.

Marex was established in 2005 but through its subsidiaries can trace its roots in the commodity markets back almost 100 years. Headquartered in London with 36 offices worldwide, the Group has over 1,800 employees across Europe, Asia and America.

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. The Swap Dealer is a division of Marex, which is in the process of building out its product offering.

For more information visit www.marex.com

Purpose Of Role

The Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis will be responsible for providing reliable data and analysis to be used in monthly financial reporting and analysis. You will prepare accurate monthly financial reports and assist in the development of models and dashboards that provide thoughtful analysis, identify action items, and effectively frame decisions that need to be made.

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.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and distribute monthly payout reports for internal brokers.
• Prepare, analyse and distribute monthly customer profitability reporting.
• Create internal dashboard for customer profitability reporting.
• .Update variance analysis reports and financial models and enhance models when possible
• Analyse monthly financial results and investigate inconsistencies and variances.
• Produce daily reports as required.
• Assist in the month-end close process (reporting / consolidation activities).
• Seek opportunities to automate the financial reporting processes
• Assist with ad-hoc analysis and presentation requests.
• Assist with various ad-hoc projects, analysis and process improvements.
• 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.
• 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

• Critical thinker with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong organizational skills and high attention to detail
• Ability to prioritize duties and meet deadlines
• A collaborative team player, approachable, self-efficient and influences a positive work environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Resilient in a challenging, fast-paced environment
• Strategic collaborator with insight and agility, able to anticipate future challenges, ensuring operational effectiveness

Skills And Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office applications; advanced Microsoft Excel skills and Excel modelling required
• Experience in Essbase/ SmartView and PeopleSoft software preferred
• Experience with Power BI, Power Query, Power Pivot and Tableau preferred
• Experience working in a regulated environment and knowledge of the risk and compliance requirements associated with this
• Demonstrate an understanding of basic accounting processes, procedures and GAAP.

Marex’s goal is to build and maintain a workforce that is diverse in experience and background but uniform in reflecting our standards of integrity and excellence. Consequently, our recruiting efforts reflect our desire to attract and retain the best and brightest from all talent pools. We want to be the employer of choice for prospective candidates. We encourage applications from candidates returning to the job market.

It is the policy of Marex to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, sex stereotype, gender, gender identity or expression, transgender, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy, veteran or military service status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.