Location: Cambridge, UK (hybrid) with travel to the office twice per week.
Are you a qualified accountant? Does applying your trade to a leading games studio sound appealing?
As a Senior Finance Business Partner, you will play a pivotal role in driving financial performance, strategic decision-making and commercial insights across the business. You will be a key strategic partner to senior stakeholders, providing data-driven insights, financial analysis, and commercial support.
This role requires a commercially astute finance professional with strong analytical and modelling skills, excellent stakeholder management and a deep understanding of FP&A, ideally within a fast-moving, PE-backed environment.
This role also offers the opportunity to be heavily involved with the Senior Leadership Team, and the Exec
What you'll be doing:
- Act as a trusted Finance partner to senior leaders across key business units to provide financial insight, embed cost discipline and challenge decision-making. Build relationships to develop a deep understanding of the business and the drivers of business performance.
- Provide transparent and actionable budgets, forecasts, and long-term financial plans, ensuring alignment with the company’s growth strategy.
- Deliver accurate, insightful and timely financial reports to senior stakeholders.
- Develop robust financial models and scenario analysis to support strategic decision making and optimise business performance.
- Monitor key performance indicators, identifying risks and opportunities and proactively recommending corrective actions.
- Partner with and support key stakeholders to assess financial impacts of transformation projects to support long-term business strategy.
- Support business cases for investment decisions, including ROI analysis and scenario modelling.
- Enhance FP&A processes, leveraging automation and best practices to improve efficiency and accuracy.
What you'll need:
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) experience in FP&A, commercial finance, or business partnering roles.
- Advanced financial modelling and analytical skills, with the ability to translate data into actionable insights.
- Experience in a PE-backed or technology-driven business is highly desirable.
- Proven track record of influencing senior stakeholders and driving commercial outcomes.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment with a hands-on approach.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with strong attention to detail and the ability to challenge and support senior stakeholders.
What we offer:
When you join Jagex you can look forward to a generous Perks & Benefits package including:
- Private Healthcare, including Dental Plan.
- Minimum 6% Pension contributions.
- Employee Assistance Programme & onsite Counselling.
- Life Insurance.
- Discretionary annual performance bonus.
- Enhanced family leave policies from day 1.
- Flexible working hours.
- 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays & the option to buy/sell holidays + so much more!
About Jagex:
Jagex is a leader in developing and publishing deep, engaging online games that connect millions of players worldwide. Best known for the RuneScape franchise, which includes two of the world’s longest running and most successful MMORPGs, in Old School Runescape and Runescape, and the open-world survival crafting game, Runescape: Dragonwilds; we have proven success in delivering immersive Forever Games and fostering strong player communities.
We strive to foster an inclusive workplace built on trust, autonomy, and a shared passion for creating forever games.
Our values guide everything we do: We Embrace Fellowship by collaborating and sharing openly. We Hone our Craft by always learning and improving; we Honour our Vows by being honest and transparent; we are our Customers’ Heroes by striving to understand our team & player needs, and we Seize The Day by making the most of every opportunity.
With over two decades of experience, and over 400 people in our team, we continue to innovate in live game development, leveraging data-driven insights, and a commitment to player-first game design. We have a diverse and talented team where creativity, collaboration, and community-driven game development drives everything we do.
As part of Jagex, you’ll have the opportunity to work on a globally successful franchise, contribute to exciting new projects, and be part of a company that hugely values both our employees and our players.
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What We Do
A leader in creating deep and engaging forever games on PC, Console & Mobile that empower our communities. Jagex was founded in 2001 and is today one of the UK’s biggest and most respected video game developers and publishers. Famed for its flagship MMOs RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, Jagex has welcomed more than 300 million player accounts to its world and created a $1bn lifetime franchise revenue. Today the RuneScape franchise exists beyond running games in live operations; our titles are forever games that connect and inspire millions of players, with content and experiences both inside and outside of inexhaustible game worlds. Both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, on PC and mobile, offer ever-evolving, highly-active worlds and our community-focused development ethos empowers players to have a real say in how each game is shaped. Jagex has added to its skill set with the acquisitions of Pipeworks and Gamepires in 2022, bringing our expertise to titles such as SCUM, helping to make SCUM a forever game. It also works with external partners on products such as Melvor Idle and This Means Warp; bringing these titles to new and existing audiences. Jagex employs more than 600 people at its Cambridge headquarters and around the world at Pipeworks in North America, and Gamepires in Europe. We’re always on the hunt for talented people to work across the business, to help the company to achieve its goals.
