Investments Senior Principal

**Investments Senior Principal - Asset-Based Finance (ABF)/Private Credit**:
**Job ID**:R0391511

**Full/Part-Time**:Full-time

**Regular/Temporary**:Regular

**Listed**:2025-05-27

**Location**:Frankfurt

**Position Overview**:
**Employer**:DWS Group**

**Title**:Investments Senior Principal - Asset-Based Finance (ABF)/Private Credit**

**Location**:Frankfurt**

**Job Code**:#LI-MB1 #LI-04**

**About DWS**:
At DWS, we’re capturing the opportunities of tomorrow. You can be part of a leading, client-committed, global Asset Manager, making an impact on individuals, communities, and the world.

Join us on our journey, and you can shape our transformation by working side by side with industry thought-leaders and gaining new and diverse perspectives. You can share ideas and be yourself, whilst driving innovative and sustainable solutions that influence markets and behaviours for the better.

Every day brings the opportunity to discover a new now, and here at DWS, you’ll be supported as you overcome challenges and reach your ambitions. This is your chance to lead an extraordinary career and invest in your future.

**Team / division overview**

The DWS Alternatives business is a diversified set of business activities with approximately EUR 130bn in assets under management in strategies including Private Real Estate, Private Infrastructure, Private Credit, Liquid Real Assets (Real Estate/Infrastructure and Commodity Securities) and Sustainable Investments. The global team invests on behalf of a global client base that includes governments, corporations, institutional investors, as well as a growing UNHW investor group.

Private Credit is a key growth pillar of the EUR 115bn DWS Alternatives franchise. The Private Credit platform aims to build diversified portfolios across direct lending, leveraged loans, capital solutions, asset-based finance and structured credit that deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns with a focus on capital preservation to a broad spectrum of investors including governments, corporations, insurance companies and private clients.

As part of the Corporate Credit/Direct Lending Strategy you will be at the heart of a strategic initiative in Germany/Europe, leveraging your expertise in corporate credit portfolio management to provide tailored investment solutions to our investments.

**Role Details**

As a Senior member of the ABF/Private Credit Investment team, you will be responsible for:

- Leading across a broad range of Asset-Based Finance (“ABF”) investment strategies, from performing and non-performing asset-backed portfolios, to platform equity investments, to single-name opportunistic and distressed situations, with asset classes and collateral types covering consumer finance, commercial finance, and hard assets.
- Conducting detailed financial analysis of cash flows, financial statements, and data tapes, to assess the credit quality of potential transactions.
- Evaluating industry trends, market conditions, and underlying collateral risk.
- Acting as an ABF SME to support fundraising strategies through partnerships with the relevant client coverage and product teams.
- Performing in-depth due diligence on potential borrowers including review of legal documentation, business and collateral quality, operations, and other relevant factors impacting investment decisions.
- Developing and utilising complex financial models to project expected investment performance and assess potential risks and scenarios.
- Jointly preparing and presenting investment committee memorandums.
- Monitoring investments and sector trends to support ongoing portfolio management.
- Producing credit memoranda and other documentation for Investment Committees, that provide accurate and concise underrating analysis and investment recommendations.
- Ensuring regulatory compliance by staying updated on relevant regulations and ensuring compliance with internal and external guidelines throughout the underwriting process.

We are looking for:

- Proven experience of ABF gained at a credit fund, commercial or investment bank, hedge fund or mezzanine fund.
- Strong analytical and complex modelling skills, and experience of conducting detailed due diligence; preferably in ABF transactions, across asset classes and collateral types such as consumer finance, commercial finance and hard-assets.
- Strong technical analysis skills, with experience of conducting detailed due diligence and financial modelling of private credit investment opportunities.
- Solid experience of Investment Committees and the associated preparation of materials to support their processes.
- Experience of effectively managing risk controls within an investments environment, with sound experience around the fiduciary duty of care and diligence.
- Ability to effectively communicate with external clients.
- Educated to degree level in a Finance related discipline from an accredited college or university (or equivalent) or an acceptable level of industry e