Macro Analyst
Macro Analyst
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Our employees are our greatest asset so we give them lots of responsibility and the support they need to make a difference. Our flat structure fosters a culture of openness and collaboration encouraging the sharing of ideas and knowledge. It makes no difference if you have been with us for three days or three years the best idea wins.
Our Macro Analyst team plays a critical role in informing our trading strategies. The team is deeply passionate about global markets macroeconomic trends and the dynamic interplay between economic data policy decisions and asset prices. Analysts thrive on researching and anticipating how different market regimes and events will influence broad asset classes including equities currencies fixed income and commodities.
Your Core Responsibilities:
- Perform topdown fundamental coverage of China Hong Kong Japan Korea and other APAC markets.
- Proactively identify and research macroeconomic catalysts such as data releases central bank meetings political and geopolitical events etc.
- Generate volatility and directional trading ideas on the back of your research. Work closely with the options trading team to execute these strategies.
- Monitor and analyse daily news flow for the markets and products under your coverage.
- Apply technical and programming skills to backtest trading strategies.
Your Skills and Experience:
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills. Fluency in Mandarin Japanese or Korean is a plus.
- A minimum of 2 years experience in relevant sellside or buyside roles as an Economist Strategist or Global Macro PM/Analyst.
- Tertiary qualifications in Finance/Economics/Commerce.
- Derivatives and/or structured products experience is advantageous.
- A demonstrated passion and understanding of financial markets are required.
- Bloomberg and Python experience preferred.
About Us
IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cuttingedge research environment and a worldclass technology backbone. Since 1989 weve been a stabilizing force in financial markets providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US Europe Asia Pacific and India our talented quant researchers engineers traders and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative highperformance culture and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Full Time
