Agricultural Trading Assistant

About Marex

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 Agricultural Trading department combines deep discretionary market expertise with modern quantitative research, technology and data science to provide liquidity, manage risk and identify trading opportunities across global agricultural markets. The desk has direct access to the major agricultural futures and options exchanges and is investing in the continued expansion of its systematic trading capabilities through the application of statistical modelling, alternative datasets, automation and advanced analytics.

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An ambitious, analytical and highly disciplined individual joining the Agricultural Commodities trading desk in a junior front-office role. The Agricultural Trading Assistant will support the day-to-day running of the desk through reporting, position and risk monitoring, model oversight and desk administration, while developing a detailed understanding of agricultural commodity markets and trading techniques.

The role is intended to provide a strong foundation for progression within agricultural trading, with the longer-term objective of developing the successful candidate towards proprietary trading responsibility, subject to performance, demonstrated capability, applicable approvals and business requirements.

• Run daily, weekly and ad-hoc desk reports and maintain accurate desk records, spreadsheets and recurring administration.
• Monitor positions, exposures, P&L, risk scans and trading/analytical models; identify unusual movements or discrepancies and escalated promptly.
• Support trade and position reconciliation, recurring desk controls and the preparation of position, risk and market information.
• Monitor agricultural commodity markets and relevant fundamental drivers, including supply and demand, trade flows, seasonality, weather, crop developments and macroeconomic factors.
• Support market analysis and trading development across futures, options and spreads
• Develop an understanding of trading strategies, position construction, trade planning and trade management, taking increasing ownership of market analysis and ideas as capability develops.
• Use Bloomberg, ICE platforms and Excel on a daily basis, and use Python, coding and appropriate AI-enabled tools to automate processes, analyse data and improve desk efficiency where relevant.
• Ensuring 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 complying with the FCA’s/regulators Code of Conduct
• At all times complying with Marex’s Code of Business Conduct & Ethics.
• Carrying out regulatory activities under the [Marex Financial and MSIL] trading books
• Liaising with clients in [US, UK, France,…