Financial Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis - VN2897

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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:

Marex is seeking a Financial Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) who is responsible for providing reliable data and analysis for monthly financial reporting and analysis. The role prepares accurate monthly financial reports and assists 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.

***This role will be at least 4 days per week in-office at our Chicago offices***

Responsibilities:

• Prepare and distribute monthly payout reports for internal brokers.
• Prepare, analyze, and distribute monthly customer profitability reporting.
• Create internal dashboard for customer profitability reporting.
• Update variance analysis repots and financial models and enhance models when possible.
• Analyze 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 various ad-hoc projects, analysis, presentation requests, and process improvements
• All employees are expected to understand and comply with any Sarbanes Oxley operational requirements relevant to their role.
• 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 require
  • 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.
  
• 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.
• Strategic collaborator with insight and agility, able to anticipate future challenges, ensuring operational effectiveness.

Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting is required.
• At least three to five (3-5) years' of experience in a Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) role.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, advanced Microsoft Excel skills and Excel modelling required.
• Experience in Essbase/SmartView and