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 establish thriving agribusinesses that generate financial returns while making a measurable impact on climate, nature, and communities.
Our team comprises entrepreneurs from both the financial and agri-food sectors, with the 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 presents a unique opportunity to enter a transformative company from the ground floor.
Position Overview
This role involves driving LANCRY’s quantitative analytics agenda and supporting the ongoing development of the firm’s investment risk capability, with increasing responsibilities over time. The position encompasses 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 infrastructure that enhance capital allocation, deal structuring, and risk oversight, ensuring that decisions are robust, repeatable, and adhere to 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 an investment risk framework and recurring risk reporting, encompassing market, liquidity, FX, and climate/nature risks, ensuring consistent oversight across portfolios and transactions.
- Decision Support for Strategies & Asset Advisory: Lead the quantitative workstream alongside the Heads of Strategies and the Head of Investment Advisory to assess 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 clearly and professionally.
- Research & Innovation: Lead 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; a PhD is highly desirable, particularly 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 in 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 for senior stakeholders.
- CFA and FRM certifications are advantageous.
- Strong understanding of private-market portfolio construction and investment risk measurement; capable of delivering decision-ready recommendations.
- Practical application of 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 a team of stakeholders from diverse backgrounds.
- Possess an entrepreneurial mindset with high ownership, sound judgment, and exceptional attention to detail.
- Strong work ethic and readiness to support various priorities in a fast-moving startup environment.
- Excellent communication skills in English; additional languages are a plus.
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