Revenue Accountant, Jagex
12-month fixed-term contract
Offers Discretionary annual performance bonus
More information about location
2 days a week in office
Video game studio
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Video game studio
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
Offers Discretionary annual performance bonus
More information about location
2 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make forever games that connect and inspire players all around the world.
Role
Who you are
- Qualified Accountant status, such as ACA, ACCA or CIMA
- Demonstrable experience in revenue accounting, including revenue recognition, deferred revenue, accruals, journal entries and balance sheet reconciliations
- Proven experience performing detailed reconciliations from source-system data through to financial reporting and general ledger postings
- Strong experience working with large, complex datasets in a finance or accounting environment, including consolidating data from multiple sources into accurate financial outputs
- Advanced Excel experience, including complex formulas, structured workbooks, Power Query and Power Pivot
- Demonstrable experience working with payment processing or transaction-based systems, including PSP settlement and cash-flow processes such as PayPal, Adyen or similar platforms
- Basic SQL skills or proven experience extracting and validating data directly from source systems
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an Interim Revenue Accountant to join Jagex on a 12-month fixed-term contract, supporting key revenue accounting, reconciliation and reporting across Finance
- You’ll help ensure revenue is recognised accurately, month-end close runs smoothly, and financial records remain robust, complete and well controlled
- What makes this role stand out is the opportunity to do more than deliver business-as-usual revenue accounting
- You’ll play a direct role in improving how Jagex manages high-volume revenue data, supporting the transition from manual reconciliation processes towards more scalable, automated ways of working
- You’ll work across multiple systems, billing data, PSP platforms and revenue outputs, helping the business understand what is driving revenue movements and giving senior stakeholders confidence in the integrity of the numbers during an important period of change
- Own the monthly revenue recognition process, consolidating and validating data from multiple source systems so revenue is recognised and deferred accurately
- Prepare monthly revenue and deferred revenue journals, ensuring calculations are fully supported and completed within month-end close timelines
- Reconcile revenue calculations, billing systems and PSP platforms such as PayPal and Adyen, resolving discrepancies to protect the completeness and accuracy of reported revenue
- Analyse large, complex revenue datasets across multiple systems and journal postings, turning fragmented outputs into clear, reliable financial insight
- Run and interrogate SQL-based data extracts, using the outputs to support revenue calculations, reconciliations and variance investigations
- Develop, maintain and enhance advanced Excel models and reconciliations, using tools such as Power Query and Power Pivot to improve control, scalability and efficiency
- Support the establishment and maintenance of revenue reconciliations for the new Chargebee billing platform, helping ensure reporting continuity through the transition from legacy systems
- Identify opportunities to automate, simplify and strengthen revenue accounting processes, reducing manual effort while maintaining accuracy and control
Our take
Founded in 2000, Jagex is the video game studio behind the RuneScape titles. It is one of the largest British video game studios, having amassed 2.4 million active subscribers, one million free-to-play users, and over 300 million lifetime RuneScape accounts.
Jagex specialises in "forever games", in which players can continue to discover new experiences and challenges without ever reaching an end. RuneScape is a perfect example of this approach, still receiving updates over twenty years after its initial release.
On top of the RuneScape franchise, the company's acquisition of Gamepires brought titles such as SCUM under the company's banner, which it is also working to make into a forever game. It also acquired Pipeworks - adding a Games-as-a-Service platform to its broadening portfolio.
In 2024, it was announced that Jagex would be bought by CVC Capital Partners and Haveli Investments. This represents a move that will position it well to pursue creating more new and innovative player experiences in the future.
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Company benefits
- Annual performance bonus
- Pension scheme
- Valiant values rewards & recognition
- Income protection insurance
- Cycle to work scheme
- Gym membership
- Learning & development pathways
- Industry events
- Charity events
- Private medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Enhanced parental eave
- Annual leave entitlement
- Employee assistance programme
- Company social events
- Flexible working hours
Company HQ
Milton, UK
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