Revenue Accountant (12-month fixed-term contract)

Join Jagex, a leading game developer, as an Interim Revenue Accountant on a 12-month fixed-term contract. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring accurate revenue recognition, smooth month-end close processes, and robust financial records. You will also have the opportunity to improve revenue data management and support the transition to more automated processes. Key responsibilities include owning the monthly revenue recognition process, reconciling revenue calculations, analyzing complex revenue datasets, and identifying opportunities for automation.

• 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.
• 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
• Strong experience working with large, complex datasets in a finance or accounting environment, including consolidating data from multiple sources into accurate financial outputs
• Basic SQL skills or proven experience extracting and validating data directly from source systems
• Proven experience performing detailed reconciliations from source-system data through to financial reporting and general ledger postings
• 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