Compliance Officer - Surveillance - VN

Chicago, IL Full-Time Compliance

Diversified. Resilient. Dynamic.

Marex is a 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 major 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.

With more than 35 offices around the globe, and over 2,300 dedicated people enabling access to exchanges and technology‑powered services.

Marex is recruiting for a Surveillance Compliance officer to join their team in New York. The role will primarily focus on Surveillance (Trade Activity and Communications) across a range of asset classes (Cash Equity, Fixed Income, Commodities, Derivatives (Futures, Options, Swaps)) on multiple exchanges, trading platforms and venues with an opportunity to gain exposure to a wider range of compliance activities at a market‑leading firm.

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.

In the ever‑evolving financial landscape, Compliance has become increasingly complex. Marex must navigate a wide range of regulatory requirements to maintain licenses and protect Marex’s reputation. Compliance and Compliance Officers play a crucial role in ensuring that all activities are conducted in accordance with the law.

Compliance Officers monitor transactions, conduct regular audits, train employees on regulatory requirements, and implement policies and procedures to minimize non‑compliance risks. Compliance efforts are instrumental in fostering a compliant culture within Marex and ensuring that all employees understand their responsibilities.

Furthermore, Compliance is a bridge between Marex and regulatory authorities. Compliance is responsible for responding to inquiries, providing necessary documentation, and cooperating with regulatory examinations and investigations. This collaboration is essential in maintaining a healthy and transparent relationship between Marex and regulatory bodies.

• Provide E-communications, Voice, and Trade Surveillance review services to US Broker Dealer (BD) and FCM business lines
  • Review alerts with due consideration in a timely fashion, maintaining queues within guidelines
    • Use technical expertise and Surveillance toolset to make determinations on whether or not an alert is a true positive or false positive, closing false positives with proper documentation including explanatory reasoning.
    • Seek additional clarifying information from Clients/Traders as appropriate. Escalate potential true positives to management with proper documentation, including rationale.
      • Notify Employee’s Supervisor or Client of confirmed True Positive.
    • Follow up on open issues as needed.
• Produce metrics on Surveillance reviews to the Head of US Surveillance
  • Clearly delineated by date, business line, desk, alert type, client, and trader.
• Participate in ongoing improvement of the Surveillance function
  • Testing of trade data and OMS/EMS systems to ensure the quality and completeness of data being input to the Surveillance tools
  • Actively suggesting potential enhancements that would
    • Increase discovery of True Positives.
    • Reclassify False Negatives to True Positives.
    • Reduce the quantity of False Positives without decreasing True Positives.
  • Calibration testing for new and existing scenario.
  • Documented UAT Review of new scenarios.
• Provide Surveillance expertise to BD and FCM Advisory…