The posting
Launch your career in Company Secretariat and join Marex’s Full-Time Graduate Programme – a unique experience designed to empower and accelerate early-career professionals.
Overview of Marex
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.
Role Summary
Join a dynamic team where you’ll support the smooth running of our group companies, maintaining statutory records, coordinating meetings, and helping shape our corporate governance framework. You’ll gain hands-on experience, work alongside experts, and develop skills that set you up for a successful career in financial services. If you’re detail-oriented, collaborative, and eager to learn, this is your chance to make an impact from day one.
Graduate Programme Summary
Begin with our immersive two-week bootcamp, where you’ll gain insight into the complexities of financial services, understand Marex’s purpose, and explore our strategic priorities. After the bootcamp, you’ll join your team and continue learning through structured in-role training while building meaningful connections across the organisation.
Throughout the programme, you’ll benefit from tailored development interventions that fast-track your understanding of Marex and the industry. Engage in interactive workshops focused on behavioural and cognitive skills, technical expertise, and business awareness – all designed to support your professional growth and set you up for long-term success.
You'll attend informal insight events and a lunch and learn series hosted by senior Marex Leaders. Gain exposure, ask questions, and get real insights into the business from influential figures.
From day one, connect with a cohort of fellow graduates. Attend training and events together, creating bonds with those sharing your journey. Join Marex, where your passions align with purpose, and your strengths converge with our values.
Marex is fully committed to the elimination of unlawful or unfair discrimination and values the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the company.
To be eligible for the 2027 graduate programme, you must have graduated in 2026 or be due to graduate in 2027.
The 2027 UK Graduate Programme commences in September 2027.
Overall Responsibilities
The duties of the role will include, but not be limited to, the following: -
- Effecting event-driven actions for group companies including appointment/ resignation of directors, company name changes, adoption of/ changes to articles, dividend payments, etc.
- Co-ordinating and liaising with external company secretarial service providers in relation to outsourced services provided to the Group’s overseas subsidiaries and branches
- Maintaining the statutory registers for all Group companies on the ‘Diligent Entities’ software and ensuring all required filings are made with Companies House and global equivalents
- Implementing changes to the Group’s corporate structure, including integration of new acquisitions, liquidation, and closure of legal entities
- Co-ordinating meetings of the Group’s sub-committees and certain subsidiaries (both in the UK and overseas), including scheduling, preparation of agenda, circulation of papers, taking and producing minutes
- Assisting with the financial year-end process including drafting/reviewing Group and subsidiary accounts, and facilitating approval thereof
- Developing and maintaining the Group’s Corporate Governance Framework, including terms of reference, policies, procedures, and authorised signatory lists
- Assisting the Company Secretary with preparation for meetings of the Group’s Board and Board Committees, including use of ‘Diligent Boards’
- Assisting internal and external stakeholders with requests for ‘Know Your Client’ information relating to the Group, particularly its current shareholding structure
- Assisting with transaction-based events including acquisitions and disposals
- Development and maintenance of departmental procedures/ policies
Standard Responsibilities for all Roles
- 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 Code of Conduct /Marex’s Code of Conduct
- To 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
- To report any breaches of policy to Compliance and/ or your supervisor as required
- To escalate risk events immediately
- To provide input to risk management processes, as required.
The Company may require you to carry out other duties from time to time
Competencies
- A collaborative team player, approachable, self-efficient and influences a positive work environment
- Demonstrates curiosity
- Resilient in a challenging, fast-paced environment
- Great Attention to detail
- Strong task management and completion
- Strategic collaborator with insight and agility, able to anticipate future challenges, ensuring operational effectiveness
- 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
- Adaptable and self-motivated
- Ability to communicate with peers and with senior management effectively and with confidence
- Capability and appetite to learn and understand the Group’s business
Skills and Experience
- Requires a good understanding of company corporate governance and the role of the company secretarial function within an organisation
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience/knowledge of working in a regulated environment and knowledge of the risk and compliance requirements associated with this
Company Values
Acting as a role model for the values of the Company:
Be collaborative - by working together across the organisation, we foster teamwork, can better respond to challenges and successfully deliver for our clients
Act with integrity - we pride ourselves on our honesty and high ethical standards. We apply these values when working with all our clients, colleagues and other stakeholders
Be adaptable and entrepreneurial - we embrace change as markets evolve to constantly increase our efficiency and create innovative solutions for our clients. We are interested in the world around us and inquisitive about understanding the challenges and opportunities our clients face.
Be respectful – how we treat each other, and our clients says everything about who we are. We always act respectfully and treat people fairly in everything we do.
Nurture talent – we aim to grow our own talent and make Marex the place ambitious, hardworking and talented people choose to build their career. This means giving and taking stretch opportunities, taking risks, and committing to career development and support – for ourselves, and our teams.
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
- Act to deliver good outcomes for retail customers
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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