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, with particular emphasis on highly liquid equity indices, equity volatility, and cross-asset transmission mechanisms relevant for systematic and high-frequency trading.
Your Core Responsibilities:
* Perform top-down fundamental equity 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, across macro instruments and equity index-linked products. Work closely with the options trading team to execute these strategies.
* Analyse how macroeconomic and policy developments impact equity indices, equity volatility, and index-linked derivatives in the markets under your coverage.
* Develop and maintain macro-to-equities frameworks to assess regime changes, relative value, and volatility dynamics across APAC equity indices.
* Monitor and analyse daily news flow for the markets and products under your coverage.
* Apply technical and programming skills to back-test 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 sell-side or buy-side roles as an Equity Analyst, 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, including equity indices, equity volatility, and derivatives markets.
* Bloomberg and Python experience preferred.
About Us
IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we've 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, high-performance 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.