Data Analyst

Marex Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job 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.

Overview of Marex / 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. Reporting to the CTO, 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.

The IT Group runs our enterprise‑wide services to end users and actively manages the firm’s infrastructure and data. Within IT, Marex Technology has established a Data team that enables the firm to leverage data to increase productivity and improve business decisions, as well as maintain data compliance. The Data team encompasses Data Analysis, Data Architecture and Data Intelligence. In recent years, they have developed a Data Lakehouse architecture, that is relied upon by different departments across the firm. Marex now seeks to strengthen its capabilities further and elevate the role of data in the operating models of Marex’s businesses.

Role Summary

As a Data Analyst within the Data team, you will be working closely with the Operations business stream.

You will act as a bridge between Operations and Technology for all things data, cultivating relationships with data creators, data owners and data consumers and helping to ensure that data assets are properly defined and maintained within a central data catalogue.

Through your work you will develop a deep understanding of data and dataflows pertinent to the post trade life cycle. You will help to identify datasets for ingestion into Marex’s Data Platform and will work closely with other members of the Data Team to ensure the data is efficiently ingested and correctly modelled. You will also be expected to assist with data‑related requirements gathering for Technology project work related to Operations.

• Decentralise access for discovering and consuming data. Empower the data‑savvy, entrepreneurial business leaders and citizen developers with the tools to interrogate data sets to explore and unlock opportunities for new or data‑driven products and services.
• Provide a market‑beating digital experience for clients by providing greater insight into their own data.
• Build communities of practice around data management. Increase awareness and raise the profile of the data‑driven opportunities for the firm.
• Ensure that the capabilities and tools of the Data Intelligence team infuse with the goals and operating models of each business within the firm.
• Ensure paid‑for data is used efficiently, in a manner that aligns with our commercial agreements, and that such usage can be audited with any associated costs fairly attributed across data beneficiaries.

Responsibilities

Role specific:

• Identify and analyse structured and unstructured data within the Operations business stream. Document how it relates to other datasets, how it flows through the organisation, how it is stored and how it is used.
• Identify datasets for ingestion into Marex’s Data Platform and work closely with other members of the Data Team to ensure the data is efficiently ingested and correctly modelled to deliver insights to the business and Technology.
• Identify and cultivate relationships with key data creators, data owners and data consumers.
• Ensure data assets are properly defined and maintained within a central data catalogue.
• Work with the business and Technology to identify and resolve data issues.
• Assist the business with Power BI visualisation/dashboard creation.

All staff:

• Ensure 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 comply with the FCA’s Code of Conduct.
• 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.
• Report any breaches of policy to Compliance and/or your supervisor as required.
• Escalate risk events immediately.
• Provide input to risk management processes, as required.

Competencies Skills and Experience

• Experience of working in a data role, aligned to or within an Operations business stream in the Financial Services sector.
• Data modelling, cleansing and enrichment, with experience in conceptual, logical, and physical data modelling.
• Familiarity with data warehouses and analytical data structures.
• Experience of data quality assurance, validation, and lineage.
• Knowledge of software development methodologies (Sprints/Agile) and project management software (Jira).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Technical Skills:

• Familiarity with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Advanced SQL scripting.
• Familiarity with ETL/ELT tools and experience navigating data pipelines.
• Familiarity with Power BI and experience creating BI models and dashboards.
• Experience using scripting languages (e.g. Python, PowerShell etc.) to extract insights from file‑based storage.
• Familiarity with Git or other source control software.
• Knowledge of the post trade life‑cycle and trade related data
• An analytical problem solver, expert in spotting patterns and inferring connections in data.
• A collaborative team player, approachable, self‑efficient and influences a positive work environment.
• 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

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 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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