Macro Analyst - Event Driven

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 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
• Coding capability in R, Python, Matlab or similar statistical language
• Ability to synthesize qualitative and sometimes messy quantitative information from disparate and incomplete sources
• Experience working with large data sets
• Understanding of options pricing and greeks
• Confident communicator

About the Company

DRW is a diversified trading firm with over 3 decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world. Headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, we trade a variety of asset classes including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities and Energy across all major global markets.