Associate, Macro Strategy

MUFG • New York, NY

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count? Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 150,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world. With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career. Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded. The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day. A member of our recruitment team will provide more details. Position Summary: The Macro Strategy team delivers thought leadership, actionable insights, macroeconomic trends, and cross-asset themes for Global Markets clients across the Americas (US, Canada, LatAm). We are seeking an experienced Associate with analytical skills and a background in economics and finance to support the Head of Macro Strategy to develop forward-looking views and trade ideas. This role offers hands-on global macro to market experience and the opportunity to contribute to high-impact strategy content within a dynamic and growing Global Markets sales and trading teams.

Requirements

• Relevant experience in research or a strategy role
• Strong analytical quant skills and technical writing skills
• Able to present well and communicate analysis clearly
• Assist in client request for the Americas sales platform
• Accomplish ad-hoc and intra-day manager requests
• Multitask and work in a fast-paced environment
• Deliver on large multi-functional analytical projects
• Apply statistical techniques on financial data
• A degree in Finance, Economics, Statistics and/or Data Science

Nice To Haves

• Exposure and experience in LatAm local markets a plus
• Knowledge of broad Fixed Income and FX markets a plus
• Experience with Bloomberg, Power BI and Tableau a plus

Responsibilities

• Support head of macro strategy with ad-hoc requests and excel charting needs
• Maintain the monthly macro and markets related PowerPoint presentations
• Identify and evaluate strategy opportunities in the Global Macro space
• Help develop market forecasts and co-author written strategy reports
• Develop relationships with sales and trading to promote strategy content
• Design tools, tables and charts to manipulate and analyze derived metrics

Benefits

• comprehensive health and wellness benefits
• retirement plans
• educational assistance and training programs
• income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities
• paid maternity and parental bonding leave
• paid vacation, sick days, and holidays

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees