Cost Accountant | Oxford Nanopore Technologies
📍 Hybrid, across Oxfordshire sites.
We’re looking for two Cost Accountants to join our growing Finance team at Oxford Nanopore Technologies.
This is a fantastic opportunity to play a key role in supporting our manufacturing and production operations within a fast-paced, global biotech organisation that is transforming genomics.
🔬 About the Role
As a Cost Accountant, you’ll support the Finance Business Partner – Production team, working at the intersection of finance, manufacturing, and supply chain.
You’ll take ownership of key areas across inventory, cost analysis, and reporting, helping to ensure accuracy, insight, and continuous improvement in a complex production environment.
🚀 What You’ll Be Doing
- Managing inventory and production balance sheet reconciliations
- Supporting Finance Business Partners with regular and ad hoc analysis
- Preparing month-end reports, including cost centre reporting, accruals, and prepayments
- Reviewing and supporting inventory movements, journals, and workflows
- Partnering with operations to review purchase orders and stock movements
- Supporting stock counts and standard cost reviews to improve accuracy
- Reconciling data with third-party logistics providers
- Assisting with year-end accounts and audit queries
- Driving process improvements and identifying efficiencies across finance operations
🧠 What We’re Looking For
- Part or newly qualified ACCA / CIMA, or QBE
- Around 2+ years’ experience in a similar role
- Experience working with large, complex datasets in a fast-paced environment
- Strong Excel skills and attention to detail
- Excellent communication skills and a proactive, solutions-focused mindset
Desirable:
- Experience in manufacturing, supply chain, or complex production environments
- Familiarity with systems such as D365 or Tableau
- Experience with variance analysis
🌟 Why Join Oxford Nanopore?
At Oxford Nanopore, we’re on a mission to enable the analysis of any living thing, by anyone, anywhere. Our technology is transforming research, healthcare, and beyond.
You’ll be joining a high-growth, innovative organisation, where you’ll gain exposure to complex manufacturing operations and have the chance to make a real impact.
Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person's gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability, or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and abilities to perform the duties of the job.
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Oxford Nanopore Technologies: Our goal is to bring the widest benefits to society through enabling the analysis of anything, by anyone, anywhere. The company has developed a new generation of nanopore-based sensing technology for faster, information rich, accessible and affordable molecular analysis. The first application is DNA/RNA sequencing, and the technology is in development for the analysis of other types of molecules including proteins. The technology is used to understand and characterise the biology of humans and diseases such as cancer, plants, animals, bacteria, viruses, and whole environments. With a thriving culture of ambition and strong innovation goals, Oxford Nanopore is a UK headquartered company with global operations and customers in more than 125 countries.
Skills Required
- Part or newly qualified ACCA / CIMA or QBE
- 2+ years experience
- Experience with large complex datasets
- Strong Excel skills
- Excellent communication skills
Oxford Nanopore Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Oxford Nanopore Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Oxford Nanopore Technologies.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered good to above average across many roles, with employer-provided ranges visible for several U.S. commercial and applications positions and company materials emphasizing market‑competitive base pay. Commercial and some senior technical posts, particularly in the U.S., are positioned as competitive and often paired with strong variable components.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — All‑employee share plans in the UK and a U.S. employee stock purchase plan indicate broad access to equity as part of total reward. Company communications highlight attractive bonus and share plans that add meaningful upside beyond base pay.
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Healthcare Strength — U.S. roles indicate strong health insurance and core protections, while official materials and country overviews reference private medical coverage and wellbeing support. These elements position the health package as a notable strength alongside cash compensation.
Oxford Nanopore Technologies Insights
What We Do
Our goal is to enable the analysis of anything, anywhere, by anyone. We have developed the world’s first and only nanopore DNA and RNA sequencing platform. It’s a new generation of sequencing technology — the only one to offer: scalability to portable or ultra-high throughput formats, real-time data delivery, and the ability to elucidate rich biological data. We are aiming to disrupt the way that biological analyses are currently performed, and open up new applications that have a profound, positive impact on society. Our devices offer real-time analysis, for rapid insights, in fully scalable formats — from pocket to population scale — and the technology is being used in more than 100 countries worldwide. Founded in 2005 as a spin-out from the University of Oxford, the company now employs more than 600 people from multiple disciplines including nanopore science, molecular biology and applications, informatics, engineering, electronics, manufacturing and commercialisation. The management team, led by CEO Dr Gordon Sanghera, has a track record of delivering disruptive technologies to the market.
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