Finance & Business Development – Student Worker

Are you passionate about making a difference in the world through sustainable innovation?

ALGIECEL is a BioSolutions company on a mission to deliver sustainable, high-quality ingredients at scale – meeting the growing global demand without pressuring our planet’s ecosystem. Harnessing nature’s own way and putting it to use at industrial scale, we grow microalgae using light and CO2 in modular photobioreactors.  

With the way we feed to world today, we are overexploiting planetary boundaries. There is a critical need for reliable partners who can translate innovation into industrial capacity for sustainable ingredients at scale. ALGIECEL provides an alternative with low CO2, water and land use, to customers that want to decarbonize their value chain.

Our Business Development team reflects this purpose, fostering a work culture of collaboration, lean practices and ambition for sustainable innovation.

You will play an important role in helping us drive the daily challenges of a start-up, with hands-on learning experiences in start-up finance, fundraising, soft funding, industrial partnership, IT and organizational development.

You’ll work closely with our management team and talented colleagues who value trust, transparency, and efficiency, while ensuring your ideas are heard and your effort leads to real impact.

We are looking for someone who can catch a lot of tasks and execute with quality those that matter. This role is perfect for a motivated student eager to step into a dynamic and fast paced work environment with high diversity of learning- and career development opportunities.  

Join Algiecel and help shape the future of sustainable innovation!

What you will do

Finance

• Support on budgeting, estimates & financial reports

• Support on financial strategy & cash flow management

• Coordination with consultants and service providers

Fundraising

• Pitch deck & narrative development

• Investor research

• Investor relations & communication support

Soft Funding projects & application

• Support soft funding application writing

• Support soft funding project, budget and consortia development

• Support project & portfolio-level administrative and financial workflows

Upstream industrial partnerships

• Market research on CO2 and renewable energy markets

• Business case and engagement model development

• Partnership development & communications support

IT

• Support setup of IT equipment, software & AI tools for the organization

• Coordination with external partners & suppliers

• Support strategy for team adoption & efficient use of available IT tools

What we offer

• Part-time job (15-20 hours weekly)

• Flexible work schedule (at least two days at the office)

• Report to the Head of Finance and Business Development

• Locations: Danish Technological Institute near Taastrup / Home office

• Possibility to take ownership of workstreams and projects

• Diverse learning opportunities in different departments at Algiecel

• Possibility for full-time job after studies

Who You Are:

Qualifications

• Currently 1st year master’s or 3rd year bachelor’s student in finance, business administration or related studies

• Top performer at university

• Prior work and student work experience is a plus

• Fluent in English

• Strong MS Office skills

Soft Skills

• Fast learner and motivated by learning

• Ambitious & motivated towards high performance

• Transparent, direct & honest

• Very structured

• Willingness to move yourself, rather than waiting for tasks & solutions to come

• Ability to catch a lot of tasks, while filtering and prioritizing essential timelines

• Understanding of core departments of a business and how they interact

• Diligent in executing within agreed scope & timelines, or updating colleagues

• Proactive on asking questions to gather information and create understanding

Hiring Process

1. Applications (CV, CL, Grade transcripts)

2. Assignments (presentation during interview)

3. Interview 1 (Head of Finance & BD)

4. Interview 2 (CEO)

5. Start September 1st

We are looking forward to getting to know you!