Macro Analyst - Event Driven
DRW
Overview
As a Macro Analyst in DRW’s London-based research team, you translate market dynamics into forward-looking views to support Delta 1 and volatility pricing and trade structuring. You work closely with equity teams and traders, delivering real-time analysis and scalable research processes across sectors and cross-asset coverage. You’ll liaise with external data vendors and collaborate with software engineers to build data tools that generate actionable ideas. This role offers a direct link between research insights and revenue generation in a fast, high-expectation environment.
Responsibilities- Provide real-time analysis on macro stories and headlines
- Collaborate with traders to structure trades around research outputs
- Develop sector-wide macro themes and macroeconomic theses
- Maintain dividend and earnings calendars
- Create implied probability distributions around events
- Work with Software Engineers to develop automated web scraping and data analytics tools
- Manage relationships with investor relations teams, sell-side desks, and data vendors
- Engage in DRW hiring processes to help grow the team
- 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 messy quantitative information from disparate sources
- Experience working with large data sets
- Understanding of options pricing and greeks
- Confident communicator
- confident communicator
- results-driven
- attention to detail
- R
- Python
- Matlab
Reference: WJ-747_30136942