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Marex Service Asset and Configuration Analyst in London, United Kingdom
Marex is 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.
Marex was established in 2005 but through its subsidiaries can trace its roots in the commodity markets back almost 100 years. Headquartered in London with 36 offices worldwide, the Group has over 1,800 employees across Europe, Asia and America.
For more information visit www.marex.com (http://www.marex.com)
As a Service Asset and Configuration Analyst at Marex, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the accuracy and integrity of our Configuration Management Database (CMDB) within the Atlassian platform as well as the source systems.
You will collaborate with various teams, to manage and optimize our CMDB, enhancing our overall IT service management capabilities. You should possess excellent communication and team working skills and have confidence working on your own initiative. The role also involves making suggestions and improvements to processes and tooling, ensuring all processes are documented and followed and working with several data sources to ensure accuracy and completeness of data. You will have experience in process ownership, complex service delivery, and IT asset management. Strong leadership, communication, and attention to detail are also key to success in this role.
Responsibilities:
CMDB Configuration: Maintain and configure the CMDB schema to align with the company's IT infrastructure, services, and assets. Use Discovery to automatically discover and map the IT infrastructure assets. Managing user access.
Data Integrity: Continuously monitor and improve data quality, accuracy, and consistency within the CMDB as well as the source systems, identifying and resolving discrepancies.
Change Management: Oversee the CMDB in the context of change management, ensuring that changes to configuration items (CIs) are well-documented and approved, and that the CMDB is updated accordingly.
CI Relationship Management: Establish and maintain relationships between CIs, ensuring the CMDB accurately reflects the interdependencies of IT components and business services using service mapping.
Data Enrichment: Collaborate with various teams to enrich CMDB data with relevant information, such as technical specifications, vendor details, and ownership information.
Audit and Compliance: Conduct regular audits to ensure compliance with ITIL best practices and industry standards for CMDB management.
Reporting and Analytics: Generate reports and provide insights to support decision-making, resource allocation, and improvement initiatives based on CMDB data.
Documentation: Create and maintain documentation related to CMDB processes, standards, and procedures. Collaboration: Work closely with Technology teams to understand their CMDB needs.
Competencies
A collaborative team player, approachable, self-efficient and influences a positive work environment.
Demonstrates curiosity
Resilient in a challenging, fast-paced environment
Excels at building relationships, networking and influencing others.
Strategic collaborator with insight and agility, able to anticipate future challenges, ensuring operational effectiveness
Skills and Experience
Experience working within IT in an Asset Management capacity.
Experience administering and managing a CMDB (Configuration Management Database) to monitor and manage the asset life cycle of devices including provisioning repairing and decommissioning to ensure efficient and effective best use of assets.
ITIL 3 or 4 Foundation
Knowledge of inventory systems (i.e. Lansweeper, Crowd Strike)
Background in IT asset and configuration management.
4Experience with IT service management tools and platforms.
Knowledge in working with either Asset Management and/or Configuration Management processes and systems or ITIL processes.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Experience working in a regulated environment and knowledge of the risk and compliance requirements associated with this.
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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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