Finance Intern

As a Finance Intern, you will collaborate with experienced professionals, build practical skills, and contribute to real projects at Rebellion's Oxford headquarters. This eight-week project involves re-modelling the tax forecasting process, specifically focusing on Video Game Expenditure Credits (VGEC). You will integrate existing tax credit calculations with group trading and cash flow forecasts to deliver accurate estimates of future tax credit receipts, providing enhanced insight into cash inflows for senior management.

Must Have

• Be an undergraduate student from Wadham or St John’s Colleges at Oxford University.
• Be available for attendance from 6 July to 28 August.
• Have the right to work in the UK for the duration of the internship.
• Collaborate with senior finance members to re-model the tax forecasting process.
• Integrate existing tax credit calculations with group trading and cash flow forecasts.

Good to Have

• Advanced Excel skills, including VLOOKUP, pivot tables, VBA.
• Understanding of data visualisation tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau).
• Strong analytical skills with a keen interest in data-driven decision-making.
• Interest in commercial finance and strategic decision-making.
• Willingness to learn new tools and adhere to structured workflows.
• Effective communication, organization, and attention to detail.

Perks & Benefits

• Riverside headquarters in Oxford, short walk from the city centre.
• Excellent transport links, train station nearby, and free parking at the studio.
• Open-plan office promoting teamwork and innovation.
• Regular interaction with senior management and other departments.
• Access to free hot drinks and an onsite tuck shop.
• Range of local pubs, cafes, and dining options nearby.
• Open, friendly, and creative atmosphere.
• Complete creative freedom over titles as a big indie developer.
• Variety of projects across all major platforms.
• Inclusive culture where you are encouraged to be yourself and express creativity.
• People-focused support for physical and mental well-being.
• Friendly, creative, and relaxed working atmosphere with sensibly managed projects.
• Wide variety of benefits and development opportunities.

This opportunity is open exclusively to undergraduate students from Wadham and St John’s Colleges at the University of Oxford. Applicants must be available from 6 July to 28 August, with applications due by Sunday, 18 January.

For 30 years we’ve been independently developing and publishing incredible video games, but Rebellion is more than just games. We have our own film studio, we create board games, publish books, and through 2000AD, publish comics and graphic novels such as the amazing Judge Dredd.

As a Finance Intern, you’ll collaborate with experienced professionals, build practical skills, and contribute to real projects at our creative and relaxed headquarters along the Oxford riverside.

What You'll Do & Learn:

This will be an eight-week project working closely with senior members of the finance to re-model the tax forecasting process. You will be working with advanced Excel, including macros if appropriate, but the business will be happy to look at any of your proposals around the best way to take forward this element of the tax forecasting.

Rebellion as a video game developer, benefits from Video Game Expenditure Credits (‘VGEC’). VGEC provides video game development companies with a tax credit worth up to 20.4% of core development spend. For Rebellion, this is worth millions of pounds in corporation tax refunds each year.

Rebellion is seeking to improve its forecasting of the potential VGEC credits for future years, the project will involve integration the existing tax credit calculations with the group trading and cash flow forecast mode and overlaying tax specific factors that apply to Rebellion to deliver an accurate estimate of expected future tax credit receipts. Completion of the project will provide enhanced insight to the business on likely cash inflows from tax credits, which in turn will provide senior management with greater clarity around future cash flow performance.

The project will be of interest to those looking for Finance, Commercial or Legal based experience.

Requirements

• Internships are exclusively accessible to undergraduate students from Wadham and St John's Colleges at Oxford University.
• Available for attendance from 6 July – 28 August.
• Advanced Excel skills, including experience with functions such as VLOOKUP, pivot tables, VBA and an understanding of data visualisation tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau), is a plus.
• Strong analytical skills with a keen interest in data-driven decision-making.
• Interest in commercial finance and strategic decision-making.
• Right to work in the UK for the duration of the internship.
• Willingness to learn new tools and adhere to structured workflows, demonstrating effective communication, organization, and attention to detail.
• All applications must be submitted by Sunday, 18 January.

Benefits

Life at Our Oxford HQ

Our riverside headquarters in Oxford places you a short walk away from the city centre. Renowned for its rich historical backdrop and esteemed educational institutions, Oxford offers a unique blend of tradition and modernity, with its beautiful architecture and green spaces.

Oxford also boasts excellent transport links, making it easy to navigate both the city and the wider country. The city’s train station, just a short walk from our studio, offers frequent services to London, as well as direct routes to major cities like Birmingham, Manchester, and Reading and we also offer free parking at the studio.

Our open-plan office promotes teamwork and innovation, with regular interaction with senior management and other departments, alongside access to free hot drinks, a handy tuck shop onsite and a range of local pubs, cafes and dining options nearby helping make every workday enjoyable!

Inside Rebellion

Whichever team you join at Rebellion we are proud of our open, friendly, and creative atmosphere. We love what we do, and we have fun doing it! As a big indie developer, we have complete creative freedom over our titles which allows us to work on a massive variety of projects across all the major platforms.

Find out more about us here

Our size, stability, and the variety of in-house expertise across multiple industries, makes Rebellion completely unique! We work in our own way, and we celebrate that as the key to our success. We foster an inclusive culture where you are encouraged to be yourself and to express your creativity and your talent. We are people-focused and will support you in every way to be the best at what you do. We recognise the importance of enjoying what you do and having a healthy work-life balance. We offer a friendly, creative, and relaxed working atmosphere, with sensibly managed projects and a wide variety of benefits and development opportunities for all our teams to ensure you are fully supported with your physical and Mental Well-being.

We are actively recruiting for a diverse team and continue to add to our culture of growth and inclusion. Rebellion encourages innovation in all areas, and we look forward to hearing how you can help us to be better. We encourage all demographics of culture, gender, ethnicity, neurodiversity, and beyond because a representative team makes better products.

If you are interested in working at Rebellion, but this role doesn’t sound quite like you, we’re recruiting for a range of positions across the studio and we’re always happy to receive speculative applications via our website. Visit our Careers website to view all our live vacancies: Rebellion: Careers

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