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 leading 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.
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The Risk Department at Marex is responsible for assessing, managing and monitoring various financial and non-financial risks that the company may face. The department employs analytical tools to monitor and mitigate potential threats. By implementing robust risk management practices, the department contributes towards maintaining Marex’s overall financial stability.
The Change and Integration Risk Manager will be responsible for providing independent oversight on acquisitions and material change projects. The individual will be expected to identify risks and impacts of an acquisition or change, and make recommendations for how best to mitigate those risks and impacts. They will work with Strategy during acquisition due diligence to provide review and challenge of the assumptions, and produce a summary risk report for senior management to inform their decision on whether to go ahead with an acquisition or not. They will also work in close collaboration with the business and control and support functions throughout integration and delivery of change projects to ensure the projects are delivered in a risk-controlled manner. The individual will be required to understand business operating models to help steer functions towards efficient and scalable operating models. They will deputise for the Team Lead, ensure escalation of significant risks and support the production of Board materials.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Experience in Enterprise Risk Management, M&A, or corporate strategy and development desired.
• Relevant work experience in M&A, change or transformation.
• Excellent problem solving skills, both conceptual and analytical, with a focus on identifying risks and issues and influencing change professionals to deliver remediation actions.
• Solid quantitative and qualitative analytical skills with attention to detail.
• Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships across all areas of the firm and communicate effectively across all levels.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced change environment, involved in multiple large-scale projects at once.
• Experience with preparing Board and Committee level reporting.
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• Provide 2nd line of defence oversight on acquisition integrations and change projects to boost probability of successful implementation.
• Work with Strategy on due diligence of target acquisitions to ensure a minimum level of information is sought and draft the due diligence risk report to inform senior management sign-off.
• Influence discussions regarding target operating models to ensure end-to-end processes are considered and inefficiencies or risks are reduced. This includes liaising with the Business Divisions and Control and Support functions to understand their strategic operating models, challenging the Business Divisions or functions where their proposal does allow for scalability or comprises material risks, and driving conversations within the department to ensure Risk Department’s target architecture and operating model are sustainable to support scale and growth of the business.
• Perform risk assessments on change activities, strategic investments and divestitures to ensure key risks are identified, clearly articulated, assessed, managed, escalated and reported effectively.
• Provide guidance and work with the business/ delivery teams to ensure risks identified have the appropriate risk response strategies being implemented, and appropriate items are being escalated to management.
• Active tracking of risks arising during the project lifecycle through use of RAID logs and working with relevant stakeholders to mitigate.
• Work with the different teams within Risk Department to address gaps in 2nd line oversight as change initiatives are implemented or acquisitions are integrated to ensure holistic oversight of business activity.
• Work with Operational Risk to perform RCSAs on acquisitions.
• Work with Change Management to perform closure reviews and lessons learnt exercises, ensuring lessons are taken into future projects.
• Production of risk metrics reporting to senior management.
• Provide input into Risk Committee and Board papers (as required).
• Deputise for the Head of Change and Transformation Risk.