Senior Finance Business Partner

1 Month ago • 4-8 Years • Finance

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Finance Business Partner at Jagex, you'll be a key strategic partner to senior stakeholders, driving financial performance, strategic decision-making, and providing data-driven insights. Responsibilities include building relationships with business units, providing financial insights and cost discipline, developing budgets and forecasts aligned with company strategy, delivering financial reports, building financial models for strategic decisions, monitoring KPIs, supporting transformation projects, and enhancing FP&A processes. You'll need strong analytical and modeling skills, excellent stakeholder management, and experience in a fast-moving, ideally PE-backed environment. The role offers significant involvement with the Senior Leadership Team and Executive team.
Must have:
  • Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
  • FP&A, commercial finance, or business partnering experience
  • Advanced financial modelling and analytical skills
  • Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
Good to have:
  • Experience in a PE-backed or technology-driven business
Perks:
  • Private Healthcare (including Dental)
  • Pension contributions (minimum 6%)
  • Employee Assistance Programme & onsite Counselling
  • Life Insurance
  • Discretionary annual performance bonus
  • Enhanced family leave policies
  • Flexible working hours
  • 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays + option to buy/sell holidays

Job Details

Description

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!

 

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 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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