Revenue Accountant (FTC)

Location: Cambridge, UK – This is a hybrid role, with a minimum of two days per week in our Cambridge office. Applicants should be based (or willing to relocate) within a comfortable commuting distance of our office to attend onsite as required. 

Do you get a buzz from unpicking complex data flows and system processes, then rebuilding them to be faster, smarter and far less manual? This role is where revenue accounting meets technology, and your work shapes the numbers the whole business relies on. 

Join Jagex, home of RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, as a Technical Revenue Accountant on a 6-month fixed-term contract, supporting key revenue accounting, reconciliation and reporting across Finance. 

This is more than business-as-usual revenue accounting. You’ll help redesign the processes and controls around high-volume revenue and billing, supporting the transition from manual reconciliation processes towards more scalable, automated ways of working. 

You’ll work across billing, PSP and revenue systems, helping the business understand what is driving revenue movements and giving senior stakeholders confidence in the integrity of the numbers during a pivotal period of change. In six months, you’ll leave a visible, lasting mark on how revenue is accounted for at Jagex. 

What you’ll be doing: 

• Own the monthly revenue recognition process, validating data from multiple systems so revenue is recognised and deferred accurately. 

• Prepare monthly revenue and deferred revenue journals, ensuring calculations are fully supported and delivered within month-end close timelines. 

• Analyse revenue and partner with the business to explain variances and highlight trends. 

• Apply technical accounting judgement to revenue recognition, including contract changes, refunds and chargebacks, and new products or billing models, in line with standards such as IFRS 15. 

• Reconcile revenue calculations, billing systems and PSP platforms such as PayPal and Adyen, resolving discrepancies to ensure reported revenue is accurate and complete. 

• Design, document and continuously improve revenue and finance operations processes and controls, automating and simplifying to reduce manual effort while maintaining accuracy, auditability and control. 

• Develop a clear understanding of how data flows between billing, payment and finance systems, working with systems and data engineering teams to define requirements for process and system changes. 

• Support the Chargebee billing platform transition, establishing revenue reconciliations and controls for the new platform and ensuring reporting continuity as legacy systems are retired. 

What we’re looking for:  

• Qualified Accountant status, such as ACA, ACCA or CIMA. 

• Strong technical revenue accounting experience, including revenue recognition under IFRS 15 or equivalent, 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. 

• Solid understanding of finance and billing systems, such as subscription billing platforms, ERP and general ledger systems, and how transactional data flows between them into financial reporting. 

• Strong Excel skills, including complex formulas and well-structured reconciliation workbooks. 

• Confident working with large and complex datasets, including reviewing, validating and manipulating data from multiple sources. 

• Experience in finance operations and process design, including documenting processes, strengthening controls and driving improvements to month-end close and reconciliation workflows. 

What we offer:

When you join Jagex you can look forward to a generous Perks & Benefits package including:

• Private Healthcare, including Dental Plan.
• Discretionary annual performance bonus.
• Minimum 6% Pension contributions.
• Life Insurance.
• 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!

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 https://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.