The role: Business Manager
Fortunatus Management is representing 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. The company aims to become the world’s leading manufacturer of cross asset, customised derivatives. Supporting the COO to drive improvement within existing processes and documentation, you will play a key role in building the operational infrastructure to support the rapid growth of this business. As a liaison between the Solutions business and Control and Support functions of the wider group, you will be a key contact and go to person for both divisions. Working alongside the Solutions COO in delivering Projects related to the initial creating, processing and automation of the solutions product offering, enabling the business to keep growing sustainably and integrating expansion opportunities when they arise.
Responsibilities
You will be exposed to a wide range of tasks and projects, among others:
* Delivering new business initiatives for the business following and improving the groups change process
* Reviewing and improving existing MI and KPIs to effectively monitor and steer the business
* Creating transparency around costs and budgets and driving efficiencies and cost reductions
* Driving change for the Marex Solutions team by reviewing existing processes and identifying enhancements
* Supporting the delivery of key new in-house build technology platforms as well as the roll out of third party systems.
Accountabilities
* Ensure the business is conducted in accordance with local and general regulatory rules
* Ensure that compliance and other compulsory trainings are up to date
* Ensure clear communication to manager
* Cooperate closely with support teams and the business to complete tasks and projects
* Promote innovation and work on idea generation
* Deliver strategic and tactical projects and plans to improve the current operating model
* Manage Marex Solutions’ cost base and budget, including initiating and implementing measures to control and reduce them in a sustainable manner
* Ensure effectiveness and efficiency of operational processes and come up with ways to improve them
* Oversee daily operations and adjust where necessary
Skills & Experience
A successful candidate will have:
* Min 5 year + experience in either manufacturing Structured OTC derivatives (Commodities, Equities)
* In-depth understanding about the front to back processing of these products
* In-depth understanding of the applicable governance, legal and regulatory frameworks relevant to these products
* Managed several change initiatives related to these products
* Strong stakeholder management skills and able to handle exposure to senior management
* Ideally has managed IT change or Regulatory change projects before
* Self-motivated, confident, and resilient – able to strive within a profitability driven environment.
* Strong attention to detail
* Strong Microsoft Office skills, especially Excel
* Entrepreneurial and leadership skills will be highly considered.
* Very good interpersonal skills
* University degree
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