Career Opportunities

German Structured Products Sales Assistant

London, GB Full-Time Marex Solutions

About Marex

Marex Group plc is a diversified global financial services platform, providing essential liquidity, market access and infrastructure services to clients in the energy, commodities and financial markets. It listed on Nasdaq Global Select Market in April 2024.  With more than 35 offices in Europe, US and APAC, it 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 Marex Financial Products department designs, structures, hedges and distributes customisable Investment Products through their own proprietary trading platform, Agile, under their own issuance programs to Private Banks, Wealth Managers and Independent Financial Advisors.

For more information visit www.marex.com    

Role Summary

This role covers a junior analyst function within the German Marex Financial Products team.

We are looking for A talented, ambitious, and proactive individual, responsible for handling the day-to-day tasks related to all client trade requests. A Junior level position with the ability to work autonomously, and also as part of a team and directly engage with clients. Commercial ability to maintain good relationship with clients and to help identify new prospects.

Responsibilities

  • Dealing with client requests, such as structuring, pricing and execution of Financial Products along with the life cycle management of these products.
  • Directly corresponding with clients. Clients include Private Banks, Asset Managers and Independent Financial Advisors in Switzerland.
  • Responsible for assisting with the onboarding of any new client relationships and maintaining of existing client relationships, assisting with support processes as required by colleagues, and engaging and updating clients.
  • Working efficiently and supporting with making efficiencies e.g. assisting in the preparation of any new required frameworks.
  • Collaboration with central operations functions which support the trading role including but not limited to Operations and Technology.
  • Strategising to increase P&L, requiring analysis of markets and products.
  • Ensuring compliance with the company’s regulatory requirements under the FCA.
  • 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 the FCA’s/regulators Code of Conduct.
  • Carrying out regulatory activities under the Marex Financial and MSIL trading books.
  • Liaising with clients in Switzerland.
  • 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.

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

  • A degree in a finance or economics focused area with ideally 1-2 years’* experience working within financial services.
  • Must be fluent in English and German
  • Basic understanding of Equity Derivatives
  • Comprehensive knowledge of the financial service markets and relevant regulatory requirements
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Experience working in a regulated environment and knowledge of the risk and compliance requirements associated with this

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
  • 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

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.

*experience outside of the indicated range will also be considered.

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