Macro Analyst - Event Driven

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

Key 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 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

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