Finance & Grants Manager

Job description

We’re building the tools to measure soil carbon at scale. As our Finance & Grants Manager, you’ll secure funding for our research and keep our projects and financial reporting stellar. About Seqana Seqana builds digital tools for monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) of soil carbon. We combine satellite imagery, an extensive proprietary library of soil data, and machine learning to make soil carbon measurement accurate, cost-effective, and scalable. Regenerative agriculture can store carbon in soils while improving soil health, water quality, food security, and biodiversity. Measuring that impact is often costly and complex. Our tools help project developers, agrifood companies, NGOs, and governments credibly quantify and report the results of regenerative agricultural practices. We’re based in Berlin, backed by venture capital investors, and supported by public funding from ESA and DLR. Aufgaben As our Finance & Grants Manager, you’ll take ownership of public funding at Seqana, from finding the right programmes and writing applications to coordinating funded projects, reporting, and audits. You’ll also own the financial groundwork that keeps project costs traceable and company reporting reliable. We run a soil carbon MRV project with the European Space Agency and report to EIT and Rentenbank. You’ll build on that work, developing a funding pipeline that fits our research and turning promising opportunities into strong applications. You’ll report directly to Stefan, our CEO, and work alongside a fractional CFO who owns forecasting and controlling. You’ll work closely with our scientists, engineers, and colleagues in product and commercial roles. Our subject matter experts provide the technical content; you bring the work together, manage deadlines, AI-Powered knowledge banks and take applications and reports through to submission. You’ll have room to improve how we coordinate projects, prepare our records, and meet our commitments to funders, investors, and the team. Space agencies, European research funding, and soil carbon: it’s an unusual combination, and a good one. Grants and public funding Manage our ESA project end to end: monthly progress reports, milestone reviews with our ESA officer, deliverable coordination, time tracking, and cost allocation. Our subject matter experts write the technical content; you own the process, deadlines, and sub…