Commodities and Global Markets Client Specialist - Funds and Institutions

About the Role: Commodities and Global Markets Client Specialist - Funds and Institutions

The Commodities and Global Markets Client Specialist Unit at Macquarie Group is a frontline expert team dedicated to supporting clients and counterparties with all ready-to-trade activities. This team collaborates closely with sales, origination, compliance, legal, and operations to ensure a smooth client onboarding and servicing experience, while proactively managing non-financial risk matters. The goal is to deliver exceptional client experiences and practical risk outcomes across a diverse portfolio of funds and regulated financial institutions.

What You'll Do

As a Client Specialist within Commodities and Global Markets, you will assume direct responsibility for client relationships, focusing on compliance, administrative, and servicing aspects. You will serve as the primary point of contact for clients regarding all ready-to-trade matters, ensuring all regulatory and contractual requirements are meticulously met. Partnering with sales and origination teams, you will manage non-revenue responsibilities, thereby enhancing capacity for commercial activities while maintaining robust client connectivity. Your expertise will be crucial in translating complex regulatory requirements into clear, client-specific solutions and in ensuring the practical application of compliance and risk policies. You will support a diverse portfolio of funds and regulated entities, including asset managers, hedge funds, private equity funds, and financial institutions, facilitating successful onboarding and continuous engagement.

What We're Looking For

• Extensive experience in investment management operating models, fund structures, regulation, and organizational frameworks, particularly within the EMEA region.
• Strong understanding of complex fund and ownership structures, such as SPVs, trusts, hedge funds, funds of funds, UCITS, AIFs, master-feeder setups, and umbrella funds.
• Ability to navigate cross-border structures involving partnerships, securitization vehicles, and holding companies.
• Expertise in client due diligence, financial crime risk management, and policy application.
• Strong knowledge of physical commodities and derivatives products, including contracts for difference, forwards, futures, swaps, swaptions, and options.
• Demonstrated capability in contractual negotiation, including ISDA, CSA, EFET, and other derivatives agreements.
• Experience with regulatory frameworks and classifications such as MiFID, EMIR, AMLD5 and 6, FATCA, CFTC Rules, and Dodd-Frank Act.
• Fluency or working proficiency in one or more EMEA languages to support cross-border client engagement and documentation review.

About Macquarie Group

At Macquarie, our advantage lies in bringing together diverse people and empowering them to shape all kinds of possibilities. We are a global financial services group operating in 31 markets with a track record of 56 years of unbroken profitability. You will join a friendly and supportive team where every individual contributes ideas and drives outcomes, regardless of their role.

What We Offer

Macquarie empowers its employees to shape rewarding careers with a comprehensive range of benefits, which include (depending on eligibility criteria):

• 1 wellbeing leave day per year and a minimum of 25 days of annual leave.
• 26 weeks’ paid parental leave for primary caregivers, 12 days paid transition leave, and 6 weeks’ paid leave for secondary caregivers.
• Paid fertility leave for those undergoing or supporting fertility treatment.
• 2 days of paid volunteer leave and donation matching.
• Access to a wide range of salary sacrificing options.
• Benefits and initiatives supporting physical, mental, and financial wellbeing, including comprehensive medical and life insurance cover.
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program, offering a robust behavioral health network with counseling and coaching services.
• Wide range of learning and development opportunities, including reimbursement for professional memberships or subscriptions.
• Company-funded emergency and backup dependent care services.
• Recognition and service awards.
• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements, dependent on role.
• Reimbursement for work-from-home equipment.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Macquarie Group is committed to providing an inclusive working environment. We encourage applications from all backgrounds, regardless of identity. We welcome further discussions on inclusion and belonging throughout the recruitment process and aim to provide reasonable adjustments as required.

Key Skills/Competency

• Client Relationship Management
• Compliance & Regulation
• Financial Crime Risk Management
• Derivatives & Commodities
• Contract Negotiation (ISDA, CSA)
• Fund Structures (UCITS, AIFs)
• EMEA Regulatory Frameworks
• Client Due Diligence
• Cross-border Structures
• Financial Institutions