Oxford Nanopore Technologies
Tax Analyst
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Tax Analyst
Location: Oxford Science Park, Oxford
Working Arrangements: Hybrid (3 days in the office)
The Role
We have an opportunity for a motivated, inquisitive, and detail-oriented Tax Analyst to join our tax team.
As a Tax Analyst, you will support the tax team across a broad range of UK and international tax matters, with a primary focus on tax reporting, compliance, data analysis, and operational tax processes, alongside opportunities to support advisory and project work. The role is hands-on and deadline-driven, reflecting statutory reporting and tax requirements. Whilst predominantly direct tax focused, you will also support indirect tax matters, enabling you to build a broad, well-rounded, and commercially relevant tax skillset.
The role is ideal for an early-career tax professional looking to develop their tax technical expertise and experience across tax disciplines. Working closely with experienced tax professionals across the team, you will work in a collaborative team environment and benefit from regular guidance, mentoring, and support.
Our tax function is evolving to meet the challenges of a fast-paced, dynamic, and growing international business whilst strengthening capabilities in response to increasing governance, compliance, and control requirements. As a result, this role offers an exciting opportunity to develop alongside the business, gaining greater exposure to increasingly complex tax matters and taking on greater responsibility as your career progresses.
Key Responsibilities:
Direct Tax
- 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 analyzing data from finance systems.
- Support the roll forward, preparation, and standardization of interim and year-end tax reporting calculations.
- Assist with Transfer Pricing compliance, such as documentation and quarterly calculation reviews.
Indirect Tax
- Assist with the preparation of periodic indirect tax returns, both UK and international.
- Produce, analyze, 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.
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General Tax Team Support
- 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 organized 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.
What We're Looking For:
Qualifications
Essential
- GCSE (or equivalent) Maths and English.
Desirable
- Degree in Accounting, Finance, Tax, or a related discipline.
- Part-qualified, or actively studying towards a professional qualification (ATT/ACA/CTA or equivalent).
Experience
Essential
- Proven interest or experience in tax, either in practice, in-house, or at HMRC.
- 1-2 years’ experience working within a finance team.
Desirable
- 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).
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Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Excellent organizational 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.
Desirable
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to take, and document, a logical and methodical approach to tasks.
About Us
Oxford Nanopore Technologies' 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 characterize 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.
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.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
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