About the Role
DRW is seeking a Macro Analyst to join the London-based research team, primarily working with Equity teams while having opportunities to collaborate across multiple asset classes. The role involves providing insight into Delta 1 and volatility pricing, structuring trades, and translating macroeconomic understanding into forward-looking views for traders. You will deliver daily research updates and real-time coverage, build scalable processes for sector and cross-asset analysis, and work with external data vendors and software developers to implement analytics infrastructure. This is an opportunity to directly translate research ideas into trades and be associated with the resulting revenue stream.
- Provide real-time analysis on macro stories and market headlines
- Work with traders to structure trades around research output
- Develop sector-wide themes and macroeconomic theses
- Maintain dividend and earnings calendars and create implied probability distributions around important events
- Collaborate with Software Engineers on automated data analytics tools and web scrapers
- Manage external relationships with investor relations teams, sell-side research desks, and data vendors
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 thesis
- 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
- Engage with the DRW hiring process in order to help build out the team
Requirements
- Strong understanding of financial markets and global macro themes
- Extreme attention to detail and accuracy
- Strong understanding of descriptive statistics
- 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