Group Financial Accountant

Jagex; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 82,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Healthcare (Dental Plan)

Discretionary annual performance bonus

Minimum 6% Pension contributions

Life Insurance

Enhanced family leave policies fromDay

Flexible working hours

25 days annual leave + Bank holidays (

Job summary

Jagex, based in Cambridge, seeks a proactive Financial Accountant to manage group consolidations, statutory accounts, and audits. The role supports a finance team through a transition period, including potential ERP implementation, with hybrid work and UK travel as needed.

You will oversee audit processes with PwC, ensure timely statutory filings, and work with the Group Tax Manager on tax implications of changes, while improving reporting across the holding structure.

Qualifications

• Qualified Accountant (ideally ACA or equivalent).
• Post-qualification experience in a group finance or external reporting environment with experience preparing consolidation and group-level reporting.
• Proven experience in multi-currency group consolidations with different currencies and manage external audit teams.
• Strong understanding of intercompany transactions, loan balances, and tax implications.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams.
• Able to work independently with a proactive approach to problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Audit Management and Statutory accounts Preparation
• Statutory accounts preparation for legacy group entities, including audited consolidated accounts, ensuring all statutory filing deadlines are met.
• Proactively manage the audit process with PwC and internal teams (such as tax), ensuring the timely provision of audit evidence and addressing queries effectively.
• Simplify and eliminate elements of the previous holding structure, including offsetting intercompany loan balances and instruments.
• Work closely with the Group Tax Manager to assess the tax implications of structural changes and maximise tax efficiencies.
• Provide technical accounting support to the existing finance team as they prepare for a new ERP implementation.
• Assist with the audit of Jagex Ltd and the Janus entity structure, ensuring compliance and accuracy in reporting.
• Assisting with month end close processes and management reporting.
• Improving internal and external reporting processes.

Skills

ACA or equivalent

Group finance experience

Consolidations experience

Intercompany transactions

Excel skills

Communication skills

Job description

Location: Cambridge, UK (hybrid) with travel to the office twice per week.

Are you a proactive and technically minded Financial Accountant?

We are looking for Financial Accountant to join us. As part of your responsibility you'll manage and deliver key financial reporting and audit requirements.

This role will focus on ensuring the timely and accurate preparation of group consolidations and statutory accounts, managing the audit process, and streamlining the existing holding structure. The successful candidate will also play a critical role in supporting the finance team during a period of transition, including potential preparation for a new ERP implementation and the audit process.

What you'll be doing:

• Audit Management and Statutory accounts Preparation
• Statutory accounts preparation for legacy group entities, including audited consolidated accounts, ensuring all statutory filing deadlines are met.
• Proactively manage the audit process with PwC and internal teams (such as tax), ensuring the timely provision of audit evidence and addressing queries effectively.
• Simplify and eliminate elements of the previous holding structure, including offsetting intercompany loan balances and instruments.
• Work closely with the Group Tax Manager to assess the tax implications of structural changes and maximise tax efficiencies.
• Provide technical accounting support to the existing finance team as they prepare for a new ERP implementation.
• Assist with the audit of Jagex Ltd and the Janus entity structure, ensuring compliance and accuracy in reporting.
• Assisting with month end close processes and management reporting.
• Improving internal and external reporting processes.

What we're looking for:

• Qualified Accountant (ideally ACA or equivalent)
• Post qualification experience in a group finance or external reporting environment with experience preparing (not just auditing or reviewing) consolidation and group-level reporting.
• Proven experience in the preparation of multi-currency group consolidations with different functional and reporting currencies and manage external audit teams.
• Strong understanding of intercompany transactions, loan balances, and tax implications.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams.
• Able to work independently with a proactive approach to problem solving.
• Strong excel skills and attention to detail.

What we offer:

• Private Healthcare, including Dental Plan.
• Discretionary annual performance bonus.
• Minimum 6% Pension contributions.
• Life Insurance.
• Enhanced family leave policies from day 1.
• Flexible working hours.
• 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays and the option to buy/sell holidays + so much more!

Inclusion & Accessibility Statement

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.

Right to Work Statement

This role is only open to applicants who have the permanent right to work in the UK. We are unable to provide or take over visa sponsorship for this position, either now or in the future. Applicants must therefore be able to demonstrate their ongoing eligibility to work in the UK without the need for employer sponsorship.

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 https://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, auto