About LANCRY Natural Capital
LANCRY Natural Capital is an investment advisory platform dedicated to building resilient and regenerative agricultural value chains. We partner with institutional investors, local operators, and corporate offtakers to deploy long-term capital to build thriving agribusinesses that generate both financial returns and measurable impact across climate, nature, and communities.
Our team consists of entrepreneurs from both the financial and agri-food industries, with founders bringing over 25 years of experience. We are a diverse group with extensive expertise in natural capital, asset management, fundraising, and agricultural operations. Joining LANCRY offers a unique opportunity to become part of a transformative company at the ground floor.
Position Overview
This role focuses on driving LANCRY’s quantitative analytics agenda and supporting the development of the firm’s investment risk capability. The position encompasses due diligence, transaction underwriting analytics, portfolio construction, and risk governance for private capital investments in natural capital. You will develop standards for scalable models and decision infrastructure that enhance capital allocation, deal structuring, and risk oversight, ensuring decisions are robust, repeatable, and aligned with institutional governance standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Portfolio & Transaction Modelling: Design and refine portfolio construction and transaction underwriting models tailored to private capital investments in natural capital, including scenario analysis, stress testing, and downside resilience.
- Investment Risk Management: Develop and implement the investment risk framework and recurring risk reporting, covering market, liquidity, FX, and climate/nature risks, ensuring consistent oversight across portfolios and transactions.
- Decision Support for Strategies & Asset Advisory: Lead the quantitative workstream with the Heads of Strategies and the Head of Investment Advisory to evaluate opportunities, inform structuring decisions, and deliver decision-ready analytics on risk/return, sensitivities, and capital allocation implications.
- Client-Facing Contribution: Engage with investors by presenting portfolio rationale, risk governance, and analytical results in a clear, institutional-quality manner.
- Research & Innovation: Conduct cross-asset and climate/nature-related research and translate insights into investable frameworks, product structuring, and scalable analytics.
Profile & Qualifications
- Master’s degree in a quantitative discipline; PhD is a strong plus, preferably with research at the intersection of finance and natural capital or climate and nature.
- Several years of experience in nature-based or natural capital investing, with a focus on quantitative research, portfolio analytics, transaction support, and risk management in private markets or institutional settings.
- Excellent quantitative skills, ideally supported by a degree in mathematics or quantitative finance, with the capability to build transparent, decision-grade models suitable for senior stakeholders.
- CFA and FRM certifications are advantageous.
- Strong understanding of private-market portfolio construction and investment risk measurement; delivers decision-ready recommendations.
- Practical experience in applying quantitative and qualitative risk management while integrating climate/nature scientific inputs into underwriting and risk frameworks.
- Effective in international, cross-cultural environments and collaborative across diverse teams of stakeholders.
- Entrepreneurial mindset with a strong sense of ownership, judgment, and exceptional attention to detail.
- High work ethic and willingness to support across priorities in a fast-moving startup environment.
- Strong communication skills in English; proficiency in additional languages is a plus.
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