Finance Manager

Job Description

Oxford Nanopore Technologies is headquartered at the Oxford Science Park outside Oxford, UK, with satellite offices and a commercial presence in many global locations across the US, APAC, and Europe.

Oxford Nanopore employs from multiple subject areas 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.

Oxford Nanopore's sequencing platform is the only technology that offers real-time analysis, in fully scalable formats from pocket to population scale, that can analyse native DNA or RNA and sequence any length of fragment to achieve short to ultra-long read lengths. Our goal is to enable the analysis of any living thing, by anyone, anywhere!

The details...

The Group Reporting Finance Manager supports the preparation and review of group management accounts, statutory financial statements, and monthly reporting activities. This role manages key relationships with EMEA subsidiaries to ensure compliance with local requirements, while also partnering with corporate cost centers and Payroll and HR teams. With a focus on process improvement, the Financial Reporting Manager oversees a small team handling technical accounting and payroll processing, ensuring timely and accurate financial records to meet the Group's reporting needs.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

Group Responsibilities:

• Assist in the preparation of group management accounts and statutory financial statements and reports, ensuring accurate and timely delivery.
• Support the management of the group's external audit process in conjunction with other Group reporting teams.
• Review monthly reporting cost center analyses and provide summarised commentary for senior finance leadership in the monthly reporting pack.
• Coordinate and manage multiple audit requests, delegating to team members as needed to ensure timely responses.
• Perform reviews of month-end tasks, balance sheet reconciliations, and cost center analyses prepared by the group reporting team.
• Take responsibility for technical accounting in specific areas of the balance sheet, including equity, trade and other payables/receivables, and investments, as directed.
• Act as a finance business partner for assigned corporate head office cost centers.
• Contribute to budget discussions for relevant cost centers by sharing insights into ongoing projects.
• Support interpretation and impact assessment of new accounting standards, assisting in their implementation for the Group.
• Provide practical financial accounting and reporting advice within the Group.
• Collaborate with Payroll and HR teams, as well as external payroll providers, to ensure finance payroll activities align with monthly timelines.

EMEAI Subsidiaries:

• Serve as the key contact for EMEA external local subsidiary accounts, including reviewing and approving invoices, bank payments, transfer pricing calculations, and tax postings.
• Review monthly financial reporting for EMEA entities and support adherence to local statutory filing deadlines.
• Assist in preparing EMEAI statutory financial reporting, and contribute to divisional group reporting as needed.
• Collaborate with the EMEAI Finance Business Partner to enhance reporting efficiency and accuracy.

Systems and Processes:

• Contribute to strengthening financial reporting processes, identifying opportunities for continuous improvement as the business evolves.
• Partner with the Business Systems Improvement team to maintain necessary master data for Group consolidation and enhance financial record quality.
• Regularly review and recommend improvements to current processes to maintain high standards in financial reporting.

Leadership and Team Management:

• Manage and provide guidance to members of the finance group reporting team, supporting their technical and personal development.
• Oversee finance team activities related to processing payroll information within D365 for all jurisdictions, ensuring accuracy in tax, bonus, and payroll-related accruals.

What we're looking for...

Essential:

• Fully Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA)
• +5 years PQE with Group experience
• Experienced in the preparation and/or audit of complex, multi-currency, consolidated management and financial information for a UK listed group;
• Excellent understanding of IFRS reporting requirements;
• Experience of IFRS implementations
• Strong MS Excel skills
• Confidence when presenting financial information to non-finance audiences
• Comfortable dealing with Senior Management across the Group with support from the Group Financial Controller (where required)
• Good knowledge of financial systems and the ability to develop
• A can do attitude and a proactive approach to solving problems individually and as key member of the Finance function.
• Excellent self & team organisation and project management skills to be able to work with colleagues across the business and provide guidance to team

We offer outstanding benefits to include an attractive bonus, generous pension contributions, private healthcare and an excellent starting salary. Based within beautiful, landscaped surroundings with tree-lined walks, water features and a lake, all of which make for a wonderful working environment.

If you are looking to utilise your skills to really make a difference to humankind, then consider joining our team and apply today!

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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About Us

Oxford Nanopore's 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 enabling the real-time, high-performance, accessible and scalable analysis of DNA and RNA. The technology is used in more than 100 countries to understand the biology of humans and diseases, plants, animals, bacteria, viruses and whole environments.

Oxford Nanopore was founded in 2005 as a spin-out from the University of Oxford and now employs over 1000 employees around the world.