Senior Finance Business Partner

Jagex: The RuneScape Company; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading gaming company located in Cambridge is seeking a Senior Finance Business Partner to shape financial strategy and deliver insights across the business. In this hybrid role, you'll collaborate with key business units and provide financial guidance to support investment decisions. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in finance partnering and exhibit strong financial modelling and analytical skills to thrive in a fast-paced environment. The firm offers attractive perks including private healthcare and discretionary bonuses.

Benefits

Private healthcare, including dental plan

Minimum 6% pension contributions

Employee assistance programme and onsite counselling

Life insurance

Discretionary annual performance bonus

Enhanced family leave policies

Flexible working hours

25 days annual leave + bank holidays

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience as a finance business partner.
• Experience as a finance analyst or within FP&A function.
• Strong financial reporting knowledge and techniques.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial insight and challenge decision-making.
• Deliver actionable budgets and forecasts.
• Create robust financial models for decision-making.

Skills

Commercial acumen

Stakeholder management

Microsoft Excel proficiency

Financial modelling

Analytical skills

Job description

Office location: Cambridge, UK – hybrid role, 2 days per week onsite

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 will shape financial strategy, deliver insights, and influence outcomes across the business. Reporting into the finance leadership team, you will 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 high‑impact role requires accurate and insightful forecasts, reports, and models, and you will act 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:

• Private healthcare, including dental plan.
• Minimum 6% pension contributions.
• Employee assistance programme and onsite counselling.
• Life insurance.
• Discretionary annual performance bonus.
• Enhanced family leave policies from day 1.
• Flexible working hours.
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays – and the option to buy/sell holidays and 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.