About LANCRY Natural Capital
LANCRY Natural Capital is an investment advisory platform committed to cultivating resilient and regenerative agricultural value chains. We collaborate with institutional investors, local operators, and corporate offtakers to allocate long-term capital aimed at developing thriving agribusinesses that yield both financial returns and significant impact across climate, nature, and communities.
Our team comprises entrepreneurs from both the financial and agri-food sectors, with founders boasting over 25 years of combined experience. Together, we represent a diverse group with extensive expertise in natural capital, asset management, fundraising, and agricultural operations. Joining LANCRY presents a unique opportunity to be part of a transformative company from the ground up.
Position Overview
This role is designed to drive LANCRY’s quantitative analytics agenda and support the continued enhancement of the firm’s investment risk capability, with increasing responsibilities over time. The position involves conducting due diligence, transaction underwriting analytics, portfolio construction, and risk governance for private capital investments in natural capital. You will develop and establish standards for scalable models and decision-making infrastructures that bolster 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 enhance 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, which includes 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: Contribute to investor engagement by presenting portfolio rationale, risk governance, and analytical results in a clear, institutional-quality manner.
- Research & Innovation: Lead cross-asset and climate/nature-related research, translating insights into investable frameworks, product structuring, and scalable analytics.
Profile & Qualifications
- Master’s degree in a quantitative discipline; PhD is a strong advantage, ideally 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 responsibilities in quantitative research, portfolio analytics, transaction support, and risk management within private markets or institutional settings.
- Excellent quantitative skills, ideally supported by a degree in mathematics or quantitative finance, with the ability to build transparent, decision-grade models suitable for senior stakeholders.
- CFA and FRM designations are advantageous.
- Strong understanding of private-market portfolio construction and investment risk measurement, delivering decision-ready recommendations.
- Practical experience in quantitative and qualitative risk management, integrating climate/nature scientific inputs into underwriting and risk frameworks across portfolios and transactions.
- Effective in international, cross-cultural environments; collaborates well with diverse teams of stakeholders.
- Entrepreneurial mindset with high ownership, strong judgment, and exceptional attention to detail.
- Strong work ethic and willingness to support various priorities in a fast-paced startup environment.
- Excellent communication skills in English; proficiency in additional languages is a plus.
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