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Business Manager

Business Manager

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  • Permanent
  • London
  • 80000 £ / Year

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 improve 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 process and identifying enhancements
  • Supporting the Delivery of key new inhouse 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 a clear communication to manager
  • Cooperate closely with support teams and the business to complete tasks and projects
  • Promote innovation and work on idea generation
  • Delivering strategic and tactical projects and plans to improve the current operating model
  • Managing Marex Solutions’ cost base and budget, including initiating and implementing measures to control and reduce them in a sustainable manner
  • Ensuring effectiveness and efficiency of operational processes and come up with ways to improve them
  • Overseeing daily operations and adjusting 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
  • Had managed several change initiatives related to these products
  • Has 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

The company 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, the company is committed to avoiding circumstances in which the appearance or possibility of conflicts of interest may exist within the hiring process. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or would like us to do anything differently to help you, please include it in your application.

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Job Overview
Category
COO
Offered Salary
£80000 Per YEAR
Job Location
London
Job Type
Permanent
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