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Risk Analyst

A firmwide risk role on D. E. Shaw's Risk team, tracking exposures across strategies and supporting capital allocation. The analyst works closely with investment teams.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Monitor exposures across strategies and flag material changes to portfolio positioning
Build dashboards and analysis tools for risk reporting
Investigate unusual performance moves with portfolio teams and explain them to senior people
Analyse event-driven risks and improve internal risk processes

What they ask for

Required

Statistics applied to financial markets
2-5 years in risk, markets or quantitative work
Bachelor's in a quantitative or technical subject
Clear communication to technical and non-technical audiences
Curiosity about changing market conditions

Preferred

Graduate degree
Familiarity with financial instruments
Risk management concepts

Education: Bachelor's in a quantitative or technical discipline; graduate degree preferred
Experience: 2-5 years in risk analysis, financial markets or a related quantitative field
Markets: multi-asset

How to prepare

Learn how VaR, exposure and factor-based risk reports are built and read
Build a dashboard that tracks portfolio exposures and attributes changes in P&L
Study how different instruments (equity, credit, rates, derivatives) carry risk
Practise summarising a risk move in a short memo for non-specialists

What to study

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