Senior Finance Business Partner

Overview

Office location:
Cambridge, UK – This is a hybrid role in which you'll be required to work from our office in Cambridge a minimum of 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.

• 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.

• 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.

We are Jagex:
The Rune Scape 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, Rune Scape, 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 Rune Scape 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 Rune Scape:
Dragon Wilds into Steam Early Access in 2025, representing a major step in building a multi‑genre future for the Rune Scape universe. We remain focused on building enduring worlds, empowering player‑led innovation, and laying the foundations for the boldest era in Rune Scape's history. 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 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 Rune Scape, and the next chapter of Jagex:
The Rune Scape Company starts now.

• 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!