Economist - Hedge Fund

investment process, with the following core responsibilities:

• Build and iterate quantitative economic tools and models, which will help to provide a systematic and data-driven macroeconomic framework to the Company’s investment process across asset classes.
• Interpret and present findings to the trading team, highlighting where key data or variables are changing, and engage in team discussion critiquing the model results.
• Regularly interact with external economists, strategists and analysts (e.g., sell-side research, consultants) to supplement and challenge the internal research process and augment analysis.
• Conduct other ad hoc macroeconomic and financial market analysis as directed by the team.

Qualification and key requirements:

• 0-5 years of experience working as an economist at the buy or sell-side.
• Master’s level qualification in economics and/or econometrics, preferably with a focus on macroeconomics.
• Strong experience in programming, preferably Python, and building quantitative economic models.
• Strong analytical skills, experience working with large datasets, and an understanding of statistical techniques used to analyse time-series and cross-sectional data.
• Ability to be flexible and open-minded in response to new data, ideas, and technology.
• Ability to work independently or as part of a team as necessary.
• Ability to communicate complex ideas succinctly.

Desirable requirements:

• Experience working with alternative data sources, e.g., social media sentiment, web scraping, satellite imagery etc.