Join Jagex as a Senior Finance Business Partner to drive strategic financial decisions, provide crucial insights, and influence outcomes across the business, supporting iconic game teams like RuneScape in a fast-paced, hybrid environment.
Office location: Cambridge, UK – This is a hybrid role in which you’ll be required to work from our office in Cambridge 2 days per week. Applicants should be based (or willing to relocate) within a comfortable commuting distance of our office to attend onsite as required.
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’ll play a central role in shaping financial strategy, delivering insights, and influencing outcomes across the business. Reporting into the wider finance leadership team, you’ll 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 is a high-impact role where you'll produce accurate and insightful forecasts, reports, and models, while acting as a trusted advisor in a fast-paced, data-driven, and PE-backed environment.
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When you join Jagex you can look forward to a generous Perks & Benefits package including:
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 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.
Act as a trusted Finance partner to leaders across key business units; provide transparent and actionable budgets, forecasts, and long-term financial plans; deliver accurate, insightful and timely financial reports, including monthly Finance Reporting Pack (GM, OPEX, headcount analysis); develop robust financial models and scenario analysis; work with gaming teams to understand roadmaps; partner with stakeholders to assess financial impacts of transformation projects; support business cases for investment decisions; enhance FP&A processes leveraging automation and best practices; demonstrate experience as a Finance Business Partner with additional experience in Finance Analyst or FP&A roles; possess strong commercial acumen and stakeholder management skills; excellent Microsoft Excel proficiency; strong knowledge of reporting standards and management accounting techniques; strong financial modelling and analytical skills; 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; experience in a PE-backed or technology-driven business is highly desirable; must have permanent right to work in the UK.
