Graduate Finance Administrator / Analyst (Intellectual Property)
Location: Oxfordshire / Hybrid
Salary: Competitive + Benefits
Job Type: Full-Time, Permanent
About Oxford Nanopore Technologies
Oxford Nanopore Technologies is a leading biotechnology company with a mission to enable the analysis of anything, by anyone, anywhere. Our pioneering nanopore sensing technology is transforming how researchers, clinicians, and industry partners access and interpret biological data.
From advancing genomics research and clinical applications to supporting environmental monitoring and infectious disease surveillance, our innovative technology is driving scientific discovery across the globe. As we continue to grow, protecting and managing our intellectual property portfolio remains a key part of our success.
About the Role
We are seeking a motivated and detail-oriented Graduate Finance Administrator / Analyst to join our Intellectual Property (IP) team. This is an excellent opportunity for a recent graduate looking to build a career in finance while gaining exposure to budgeting, financial reporting, supplier management, spend analysis, and Intellectual Property operations.
Working closely with the IP, Legal, and Finance teams, you will support the financial administration and reporting activities associated with a global intellectual property portfolio. This unique position offers the opportunity to develop strong financial and analytical skills while gaining insight into how patents, trademarks, external legal providers, and innovation-related activities are managed within a commercial environment.
This role would suit a graduate who enjoys working with data, financial processes, and stakeholder management and is looking for a role that combines finance with exposure to a specialist business function.
Key Responsibilities
- Process and track invoices from external legal counsel, service providers, and suppliers, ensuring accurate and timely payment processing.
- Support budget tracking, expenditure reporting, invoice reconciliation, and payment activities.
- Monitor spend against budgets and assist in identifying discrepancies, trends, and variances.
- Produce regular financial reports and spend analysis to support decision-making within the IP function.
- Assist with forecasting and budget planning activities.
- Support the onboarding of new suppliers and external service providers, ensuring financial and supplier data is accurately maintained.
- Maintain accurate records within finance and business systems.
- Liaise with internal stakeholders and external suppliers to resolve invoice, payment, and account queries.
- Assist with month-end reporting activities and financial administration tasks.
- Contribute to process improvement initiatives to enhance reporting accuracy and operational efficiency.
- Support the wider IP team with administrative and reporting activities where required.
Develop an understanding of Intellectual Property processes, including patent and trademark portfolio management, and how these activities are supported from a financial perspective.
About You
- Degree educated in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Mathematics, Law, or a related discipline.
- Strong numerical and analytical skills with excellent attention to detail.
- Highly organised with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills or a willingness to develop them.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Comfortable working with financial data and reporting tools.
- Proactive, curious, and eager to learn.
An interest in finance, commercial operations, and innovation-driven businesses.
Desirable Experience
- Previous internship, placement year, or work experience in a finance, accounting, business support, legal, or professional services environment.
- Experience working with financial systems, ERP platforms, or reporting tools.
- Understanding of budgeting, accounts payable, financial reconciliation, or spend management processes.
- An interest in Intellectual Property, innovation, technology, or legal services.
What We Offer
- Exposure to both Finance and Intellectual Property functions.
- Mentoring from experienced finance and IP professionals.
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Hybrid working arrangements.
- Clear progression opportunities within a growing organisation.
Collaborative and supportive working environment.
Why Join Us?
This role offers a unique opportunity to begin your finance career within a specialist Intellectual Property environment. You'll gain practical experience in financial reporting, budgeting, supplier management, and commercial analysis while developing an understanding of how intellectual property supports innovation and business growth. It's an ideal first step for a graduate looking for broad business exposure and long-term career development.
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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
- Experience in patent administration, intellectual property, legal operations, or a related administrative role
- Excellent organisational skills and strong attention to detail
- Experience with databases, records management systems, or docketing platforms
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Professional and confidential approach when handling sensitive information
- Experience supporting patent prosecution activities within a law firm or in-house IP team
- Familiarity with IP management systems such as CPI, Patricia, FoundationIP, Anaqua, or similar platforms
- Experience processing legal, patent, or professional services invoices
- Knowledge of global patent filing and prosecution procedures
- Experience supporting intellectual property portfolios in biotechnology, life sciences, genomics, diagnostics, software, or technology sectors
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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