Macro Analyst - Event Driven
DRW
Role description
Macro Analyst– London based research team at DRW.
The role will involve working primarily with the Equity teams while also collaborating across the firm’s multi‑asset trading operations. The analyst will provide real‑time market analysis, structure trades around research insights, develop sector‑wide themes and macroeconomic theses, maintain dividend and earnings calendars, create implied probability distributions for key events, build automated data‑collection tools, manage relationships with external data vendors, and translate insight into trading ideas.
Responsibilities
Provide real‑time analysis on relevant macro stories and headlines
Work with traders to structure trades around the research process output
Develop sector‑wide themes and macroeconomic theses
Maintain dividend and earnings calendars
Create implied probability distributions around important events
Work with Software Engineers to develop automated web scrapers and other data analytics tools
Manage external relationships with investor relations teams, sell‑side research desks and data vendors
Requirements
Strong understanding of financial markets and global macro themes; extreme attention to detail and accuracy
Strong understanding of descriptive statistics
Coding capability in R, Python, Matlab or similar statistical language
Ability to synthesize qualitative and sometimes messy quantitative information from often disparate and incomplete sources
Experience working with large data sets
Understanding of options pricing and Greeks
Confident communicator
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