Revenue Accountant

Jagex

Interim Revenue Accountant responsible for revenue recognition and financial reporting at Jagex. Supporting the transition to automated revenue processes while ensuring accuracy in financial records.

Posted 6/15/2026contractCambridge • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

SQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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!

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Hard Skills & Tools

revenue recognitiondeferred revenueaccrualsjournal entriesbalance sheet reconciliationsSQLdata analysisfinancial reportingdata extractionautomation

Soft Skills

analytical skillsattention to detailproblem-solvingcommunicationorganizational skills

Certifications

ACAACCACIMA