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Business Resilience Analyst at Marex in London, GB
Job Description
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- Business Resilience Analyst
About Marex
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 3,000 employees across Europe, Asia and the Americas.
For more information visit https://www.marex.com/
Vacancy Number: VN3220
Department description
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 Technology Department delivers differentiation, scalability and security for the business. Technology provides digital tools, software services and infrastructure globally to all business groups. Software development and support teams work in agile ‘streams’ aligned to specific business areas. Our other teams work enterprise-wide to provide critical services including our global service desk, network and system infrastructure, IT operations, security, enterprise architecture and design.
Enterprise Resilience reports into the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and is responsible for defining group-wide Business Continuity and Operational Resilience standards, controls and reporting to ensure the Group operates effectively and is meeting its financial, strategic, assurance and regulatory Operational Resilience obligations. The area covers Business Resilience and IT Service Continuity.
Role Summary
The Business Resilience analyst will assist in maintaining and improving the organisation’ resilience programs to ensure the business continuity and operational resilience arrangements are fit for purpose, embedded and in line with risk appetite.
To ensure the compliance with the organisations policies globally, assisting in coordinating and supporting local coordinators to deliver against business resilience objectives to prepare, respond and adapt in the event of disruption.
This is a global role and based in London as a hybrid role aligning to the agile working policy.
Responsibilities
Role specific:
- Support timely delivery and review of annual Resilience Self Assessments across the Marex Group, tracking and reporting progress to key stakeholders and forums.
- Coordinate review of business continuity plans with business stakeholders to confirm they are fit for purpose, published and understood with respect to critical people, locations, data, systems, and third-party dependencies — including target recovery times and recovery points.
- Coordinate and support periodic resilience and continuity tests (including recovery exercises, walk-throughs and emergency communication tests) to test response plans to ensure effectiveness and to capture any risks requiring mitigation.
- Support process for response to resilience incidents and events.
- Assist with the delivery and change aspects of the Operational Resilience and Business Continuity programme and associated IT projects, tracking progress against key delivery milestones
- Develop and manage content on the Business Continuity SharePoint / Intranet site, manage quarterly awareness updates and assist in training of resilience stakeholders to ensure effective awareness of obligations and support.
- Coordinate compilation of metrics and management information from diverse data sources to produce high quality monthly and periodic reporting on programme status and resilience associated risks.
- keep informed of any regulatory changes in relation to resilience and continuity and identify any actions or activities required for response / remediation.
- Support response to Operational Resilience and Business Continuity focused (or associated) internal and external IT audits, managing expectations of key stakeholders and tracking deliverables to suitable conclusions
- Support response to Due Diligence and client queries relating to the organisation’s resilience, managing expectations of key stakeholders and tracking deliverables to suitable conclusions.
- Provide ad-hoc support to the Enterprise Resilience Manager in relation to the effective operation of business resilience, continuity and third-party assurance activities.
All staff:
- Ensuring compliance with the company’s regulatory requirements under the FCA, NFA, AMF, AFM, MAS.
- 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 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.
Competencies, Skills, Experience & Qualifications:
Skills and Experience:
Essential:
- Experience of working in a regulated environment and with stakeholders across Operational Risk, Technology, Audit and Compliance.
- Experience of authoring process and procedure documentation
- Practical understanding of Business Continuity in a regulated environment.
- Practical understanding of the Regulatory Operational Resilience obligations.
- Associate Membership of the Business Continuity Institute is desirable.
Competencies:
- A collaborative team player, approachable, self-efficient and influences a positive work environment.
- Demonstrates curiosity.
- Resilient in a challenging, fast-paced environment.
- Excels at building relationships, networking and influencing others.
- Strategic collaborator with insight and agility, able to anticipate future challenges, ensuring operational effectiveness.
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
Be collaborative - by working together across the organisation, 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.
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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