Head of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)

5 Months ago • 5-10 Years • Finance

Job Summary

Job Description

This role requires a qualified accountant with strong FP&A experience, leading financial strategies, developing complex models, and presenting insights to drive business growth. Must-have skills include financial modeling, budgeting, forecasting, and strategic thinking.
Must have:
  • Qualified Accountant
  • Financial Modeling
  • Strategic Thinking
  • Financial Analysis
Good to have:
  • PE-backed Businesses
  • Variance Analysis
  • Actionable Insights
  • Non-financial Stakeholders
Perks:
  • Private Healthcare
  • Pension Contributions

Job Details

Description

Are you an experienced Qualified Accountant? Do you have a desire to apply your trade to a leading Games Studio?

In this pivotal role of Head of FP&A at Jagex you will collaborate with senior leadership and cross functional teams to drive financial insights and support our ambitious growth plans. You will be instrumental in shaping our financial strategy, leveraging your deep financial expertise to influence key business decisions and enhance our performance.

If you possess a strong analytical mindset and want to join the studio behind one of the world's most enduring MMORPG franchises, then we want to hear from you.

What you'll be doing:

  • Collaborate closely with the executive management team to develop and execute financial strategies, offering financial expertise, scenario analysis and recommendations to drive business growth and profitability.
  • Develop and maintain complex financial models to support strategic decision-making, long-term planning and accountability for financial performance, ensuring accuracy and relevance.
  • Lead the annual budgeting and forecasting processes, ensuring alignment with company objectives and providing guidance to senior management on resource allocation, investments and value creation plans
  • Present financial findings and recommendations to the Executive team, articulating complex financial concept in a clear and actionable manner
  • Conduct in-depth analysis of key financial metrics, trends, and performance drivers, presenting findings to senior leadership for strategic discussions.

What you'll need:

  • Qualified accountant with significant post qualification experience and strong technical accounting knowledge (ACA/CIMA preferred).
  • Significant leadership experience in financial planning & analysis, with a background in PE-backed businesses or similar environment an advantage.
  • Comprehensive expertise in financial modelling, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis, with a proven track record of delivering actionable insights to drive business performance.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with an eye for detail and a focus on accuracy
  • Proven aptitude for strategic thinking, and the ability to communicate complex financial concepts to non-financial stakeholders.

This role will require 1-2 onsite visits per month at our Cambridge based Studio.

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!

Collaboration is at the heart of Jagex. We love getting together with our teams to share ideas and socialise. If you live in the UK, we offer a flexible working model that empowers you to work in the way that suits you best, while also getting the best from your working relationship with all the great people you’ll be connecting with here. We support you to be set up for success no matter where in the UK you log in.

Flexibility really is the key to how we set up working schedules, we’ll discuss your needs with you and be transparent about the working schedules of the team you’ll be working with during our interview process.

About Jagex:

Make forever games with us.

Jagex is a thriving international games company with a growing library of forever game IPs for core gamers. We have such huge expertise at running games for the long term that we re-define expectations for what evergreen success looks like.

We create spaces for our players to come together – with each other and with us – inside and outside of our games. We empower our players with real influence on the game’s evolution. We help our players belong. Our community experiences give players a greater stake in what they’re playing, creating loyal forever fans.

These strengths inform our vision of our studio as a thriving international games company with a growing library of forever game IPs for core gamers. Our forever games will nurture sizable communities whose loyalty provides consistent revenues.

This in turn drives our mission: We create forever fans by empowering our community. We give players experiences worthy of their long-term time investment and actively collaborate with them to shape the games and the community for the better.

If this is something you want to be a part of, get in touch.

We have 500 of the industry’s most talented individuals in our Cambridge studio; if you share our values and ambition, we’d love to talk to you. Worried you don’t meet all the requirements in the spec? Your attitude, fresh perspective and experience is just as important to us; if you think this could be the perfect job for you, let’s talk.

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About The Company

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.

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