Office location: Cambridge, UK – This is a hybrid role in which you’ll be required to work from our office in Cambridge a minimum of 2 days per week. Applicants should be based (or willing to relocate) within a comfortable commuting distance of our office to attend onsite as required.
Are you a commercially minded finance professional who thrives on driving strategic decisions and partnering with senior stakeholders?
As a Senior Finance Business Partner at Jagex, you’ll play a central role in shaping financial strategy, delivering insights, and influencing outcomes across the business. Reporting into the wider finance leadership team, you’ll collaborate closely with key business units, including game teams and cross-functional partners, to embed financial discipline, optimise performance, and support investment decisions with clarity and precision.
This is a high-impact role where you'll produce accurate and insightful forecasts, reports, and models, while acting as a trusted advisor in a fast-paced, data-driven, and PE-backed environment.
What you’ll be doing:
- Act as a trusted Finance partner to leaders across key business units to provide financial insight, embed cost discipline and challenge decision-making.
- Provide transparent and actionable budgets, forecasts, and long-term financial plans.
- Deliver accurate, insightful and timely financial reports. Drive the monthly Finance Reporting Pack (e.g. GM analysis, OPEX analysis, headcount analysis).
- Develop robust financial models and scenario analysis to support strategic decision making and optimise business performance.
- Work with gaming teams to understand the gaming roadmaps.
- 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 we’re looking for:
- Demonstrable experience as a Finance Business Partner in addition to experience as a Finance Analyst or working within an FP&A function.
- Strong commercial acumen and stakeholder management skills, with a collaborative mindset and ability to influence at all levels.
- Excellent Microsoft Excel proficiency.
- Strong knowledge of reporting standards and management accounting techniques.
- Strong financial modelling and analytical skills, with the ability to translate data into actionable insights.
- 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.
- Confident in building and delivering detailed analysis, turning complex data into clear, business-ready recommendations.
- Experience in a PE-backed or technology-driven business is highly desirable.
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:
We are Jagex: The RuneScape Company. Home to one of gaming’s most enduring success stories. We create deep, community-powered games with worlds that evolve, inspire, and endure. Our flagship MMORPG franchise, RuneScape, has welcomed over 300 million player accounts, inspiring generations of players across PC and mobile for 25 years.
As we begin our 26th year, we are accelerating our strategy to expand RuneScape into a broader ecosystem of forever games and connected experiences, grounded in a renewed commitment to integrity and fair play. This includes the reduction of monetisation mechanics, as well as the launch of RuneScape: DragonWilds into Steam Early Access in 2025, representing a major step in building a multi-genre future for the RuneScape universe. We remain focused on building enduring worlds, empowering player-led innovation, and laying the foundations for the boldest era in RuneScape’s history. For more information, visit www.jagex.com.
Headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom, we are home to passionate creators, storytellers, engineers, and even a few dreamers, all united by a single mission to shape the future of online worlds and empower players to make them their own. We’re looking for people to join us who share our ambitions and values. We foster an inclusive workplace built on trust, autonomy, and a shared passion for creating experiences that inspire our communities.
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.
Join us. The next era of RuneScape, and the next chapter of Jagex: The RuneScape Company starts now.
We are committed to providing equal opportunities and creating an environment where everyone can thrive. We welcome applications from all backgrounds, and we recruit, develop, and promote based on merit and ability.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to support you during the recruitment process, please let us know when you’re invited to interview.
