Senior Finance Business Partner

Jagex Limited; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job 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:

1. 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.
2. Provide transparent and actionable budgets, forecasts, and long-term financial plans, ensuring alignment with the company's growth strategy.
3. Deliver accurate, insightful, and timely financial reports to senior stakeholders.
4. Develop robust financial models and scenario analysis to support strategic decision-making and optimise business performance.
5. Monitor key performance indicators, identifying risks and opportunities and proactively recommending corrective actions.
6. Partner with and support key stakeholders to assess financial impacts of transformation projects to support long-term business strategy.
7. Support business cases for investment decisions, including ROI analysis and scenario modelling.
8. Enhance FP&A processes, leveraging automation and best practices to improve efficiency and accuracy.

What you'll need:

1. Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with experience in FP&A, commercial finance, or business partnering roles.
2. Advanced financial modelling and analytical skills, with the ability to translate data into actionable insights.
3. Experience in a PE-backed or technology-driven business is highly desirable.
4. Proven track record of influencing senior stakeholders and driving commercial outcomes.
5. Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment with a hands-on approach.
6. 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:

1. Private Healthcare, including Dental Plan.
2. Minimum 6% Pension contributions.
3. Employee Assistance Programme & onsite Counselling.
4. Life Insurance.
5. Discretionary annual performance bonus.
6. Enhanced family leave policies from day 1.
7. Flexible working hours.
8. 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 redefine 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 are just as important to us; if you think this could be the perfect job for you, let's talk.