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Investment Risk - Portfolio Risk Monitoring, AVP

DWS’s investment-risk analyst independently monitors managed portfolios. The work analyses exposures, calibrates scenarios and evaluates liquidity-related pricing.

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.

Recalculate portfolio-risk metrics.
Calibrate stress scenarios.
Analyse liquidity and swing pricing.

What they ask for

Required

Financial-risk models
Investment instruments
Python and SQL
Risk communication

Preferred

Aladdin
CFA or FRM

Education: Finance or quantitative university qualification; level unspecified.
Experience: At least four years in financial services.
Languages and tools: Python
SQL
Excel
Markets: equities, fixed-income, commodities

How to prepare

Reconcile portfolio exposures.
Model transaction-cost scenarios.
Test liquidity stresses.

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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with DWS Group and doesn’t handle applications.