Senior Reporting Manager - London - Marex Group

Description

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 2,300 employees across Europe, Asia and the Americas.

The Reporting team is a newly created team over the past 18 months who work on a range of projects as well as have responsibility for external financial reporting. The team is charged with ensuring the firm meets the financial reporting and control obligations of a global regulated group.

Role Summary

The purpose of this role is to be a key member of the Reporting team and ensure the integrity of the Group and entity financial information. The role would cover and support all aspects of finance that falls under the Reporting Team and this hire would act as deputy to the Head of Reporting.

Accountabilities

The Senior Reporting Manager will oversee and manage all aspects of financial and external reporting compliance at Marex. This role is critical in ensuring the firm meets its external reporting deadlines whilst adhering to the necessary internal controls and financial reporting requirements mandated under SOX, while also driving improvements in internal control processes.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone with a strong background in financial reporting, and audit processes who is looking to step up into a leadership role in a dynamic and growing environment and deputise for the Head of Reporting as necessary.

• Assist the Head of Reporting in the review and challenge of Group external deliverables (Group ARA, Form 20-F, Earnings Release etc);
• Prepare and oversee production, review and completion of statutory financial statements to a high standard by required deadlines;
• Review and challenge of technical accounting papers for external auditors;
• Oversee the implementation and disclosure of our non-financial reporting obligations (ISSB etc);
• Prepare and oversee the review of the technical structure and review governance of the Group's corporate reporting; identify opportunities to improve our corporate reporting delivery and oversee the governance process to reduce risk and ensure effective and timely decisions are taken;
• Liaison with the technical accounting team to ensure a congruent approach to the explanation and/or adoption of new, amended and draft accounting standards within the Group;
• Review of monthly analytical review on income statement and balance sheet;
• Management external auditors and resolution of queries;
• Involvement in developing and enhancing existing processes;
• Integration of new acquisitions into the monthly reporting cycle;
• Design and implement of a world class control environment;
• This individual would play a pivotal role in improving the control environment;
• Review, challenge and drive improvements within Reporting and wider Finance team.

The Company may require you to carry out other duties from time to time

Skills and Experience

• Strong analytical skills – You demonstrate an aptitude for problem solving with the ability to exercise sound and balanced judgment in a highly regulated environment
• Functional expertise – Enjoy keeping up-to-date with emerging business, economic, and market trends
• Strong technical accounting skills – You demonstrate strong technical skills, pay attention to detail, take initiative to broaden your knowledge and resolve accounting issues
• Personal drive and motivation – Successfully handle multiple tasks, take initiative to improve your own performance, work intensely towards challenging goals
• A client and business focus – Effectively handle difficult requests, build trusting, long-term relationships with clients, help the client to identify/define needs and manages client/business expectations
• Strong teamwork ethic – You are a strong team player with excellent interpersonal skills. You collaborate well with others within and across teams, encourage other team members to participate and contribute and acknowledges others' contributions

Education and Professional Qualifications

• Big 4 audit background is preferred but not essential
• Experience in preparation of audited financial statements under UK GAAP or IFRS
• Experience with Workiva is preferred but not essential
• A track record of improving processes and adding value to clients/stakeholders
• Strong analytical, organisation and documentation skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong Microsoft Excel
• Qualified Accountant with substantial PQE

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

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.