Working Arrangements: Hybrid (3 days in the office)
- Assist with gathering and preparing data required for global corporate tax returns and other direct tax filings (such as withholding tax returns), liaising with the finance team.
- Maintain the global compliance calendar to ensure all filing, payment and other regulatory obligations are met on time.
- Assist with the preparation of the UK R&D tax credit claim, including extracting and analysing data from finance systems.
- Support the roll forward, preparation and standardisation of interim and year-end tax reporting calculations.
- Assist with Transfer Pricing compliance, such as documentation and quarterly calculation reviews.
- Assist with the preparation of periodic indirect tax returns, both UK and international.
- Produce, analyse and validate data to support the monthly US sales tax returns and other indirect tax compliance, including the EU EC Sales List, One Stop Shop and Intrastat filings.
- Verify and maintain customer sales tax exemption certificates.
- Prepare tax-related forms and apply for HMRC Certificates of Residence and Certificates of Compliance.
- Assist with tax authority correspondence, including drafting responses, preparing supporting information and liaising with tax authorities where required.
- Ensure timely processing of tax payments and refunds, liaising with the Treasury and Finance teams.
- Prepare draft tax journals and tax-related balance sheet reconciliations.
- Perform quarterly reviews of US state tax portals, ensuring consistency with tax-related balance sheet reconciliations.
- Raise and monitor purchase requisitions and purchase orders.
- Maintain tax fee trackers, monitoring invoices against agreed budgets and approved purchase orders to ensure accurate cost control and timely processing.
- Monitor the tax team’s shared email inbox and physical post, responding to or redirecting correspondence as appropriate.
- Maintain organised and up-to-date tax records.
- Contribute ideas to reduce manual work and improve tax processes and efficiency, including the use of technology.
- Assist with ad-hoc tax, treasury and finance projects as required.
- GCSE (or equivalent) Maths and English.
- Degree in Accounting, Finance, Tax or a related discipline.
- Part-qualified, or actively studying towards a professional qualification (ATT/ACA/CTA or equivalent).
- Proven interest or experience in tax, either in practice, in-house or at HMRC.
- 1-2 years’ experience working within a finance team.
- 2-3 years’ experience in a tax role, either in practice, in-house or at HMRC.
- Direct tax compliance experience.
- Indirect tax experience.
- Experience working with listed or multinational businesses.
- Experience preparing UK R&D tax credit claims.
- Experience of Transfer Pricing documentation or compliance.
- Exposure to tax accounting and reporting.
- Experience using tax compliance or ERP systems (e.g. OneSource, D365).
- Excellent organisational and time-management skills.
- Strong attention to detail and a high level of accuracy.
- Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Strong numeracy skills.
- Communicates effectively with colleagues.
- Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information with discretion.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to take, and document, a logical and methodical approach to tasks.
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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
- GCSE (or equivalent) Maths and English
- Proven interest or experience in tax (practice, in-house or HMRC)
- 1-2 years' experience working within a finance team
- Excellent organisational and time-management skills
- Strong attention to detail and a high level of accuracy
- Good analytical and problem-solving skills
- Proficient with Microsoft Office applications including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Strong numeracy skills
- Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information with discretion
- Degree in Accounting, Finance, Tax or a related discipline
- Part-qualified, or actively studying towards a professional qualification (ATT/ACA/CTA or equivalent)
- 2-3 years' experience in a tax role (practice, in-house or HMRC)
- Direct tax compliance experience
- Indirect tax experience
- Experience working with listed or multinational businesses
- Experience preparing UK R&D tax credit claims
- Experience of Transfer Pricing documentation or compliance
- Exposure to tax accounting and reporting
- Experience using tax compliance or ERP systems (e.g. OneSource, D365)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to take, and document, a logical and methodical approach to tasks
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.
