Finance Manager - Oxford, United Kingdom - Oxford Nanopore Technologies

Oxford Nanopore Technologies

Verified Company

Oxford, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

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

Our goal is to enable the analysis of any living thing, by anyone, anywhere. We offer real-time nanopore-based DNA/RNA sequencing technology: accessible, easy to use and fully scalable for any requirement.

We are looking for Finance Manager to partner with our business including new contract evaluation, revenue and gross margin analysis and customer sales performance.

This is a brilliant opportunity to provide expertise, leadership and the insight to supportstrategic business planning, budgeting & forecasting

Duties include, but are not limited to:

Assist with the preparation of year-end accounts and statutory accounts
Preparation and review of lead schedules and balance sheet reconciliations to support the monthly management accounts and statutory financial documents
Statutory and internal audit support
Perform monthly cost centre expenditure reviews by collaborating with cost centre managers to identify monthly accruals and prepayments and to analyse and report on performance, ensuring appropriate commentary is prepared for management accounts and for FP&Apurposes
Preparation and presentation of cost centre performance to senior management and cost centre managers
Collaborate with FP&A team and cost centre managers in preparing future budgets
Establish a relationship with R&D cost centre managers to understand current and planned internal R&D projects
Design and maintain financial models to support capitalisation of R&D and other technical accounting matters
Assist with the calculation of the capitalisation of R&D expenditure including preparation of technical accounting memo submitted to the auditors
Collaborate with the tax teams in the collation and extraction of expenditure necessary to support the company's R&D tax credit claimAssist with the preparation of the R&D tax credit claim for review by the tax team
Preperation of IFRS2 share information for internal and statuory reporting purposes including reconciling transactions data to the company Shareworks account
Responsibility for indirect tax projects on an ad hoc basis as required
Business partnering with FP&A, Accounts payable, Procurement and Business systems teams in ensuring information is recorded in the accounting system with sufficient level of detail at source to support R&D capitalisation analysis
Working with the Finance business systems team in collecting and analysing data in an efficient way to be used in the preparation of monthly accruals and prepayments calculations and reconciliations
Reviewing and supervising research agreements to establish when key licence payments or landmark payments are due
Business partnering with the Intellectual Property teams to understand, review, manage and track the company's research agreements and licenses from a financial perspective
Collaborate with the revenue accountants and senior IP teams in creating and maintaining royalty calculation models
Interpretation of accounting standards, preparation of impact assessments/technical accounting memos and supporting the implementation thereof
Support the review and consolidation of the foreign subsidiary results
Any other duties as might be required within the remit and responsibilities of the post.

What We're Looking For

We would like you to be a fully qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) with proven post qualification experience ideally within commercial finance positions. Experience of interacting directly with senior leadership is valuable.
Evidence of an analytical approach to problem solving along with acute commercial awareness and a 'cando' approach
Be curious and challenge the status quo to ensure continuous business improvement.

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.

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