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
🧠 What We’re Looking For
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🌟 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.

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.