nDreams

• Oversee the financial operations of the business, ensuring accurate reporting, strong financial controls, and compliance across accounting, payroll, treasury, tax, and accounts payable activities. • Lead month-end and year-end activities, including revenue recognition, reconciliations, audits, and statutory reporting. • Manage cash flow forecasting, payroll and tax compliance, VAT returns, and group reporting requirements. • Evaluate and develop the finance operating model, including assessing which activities should be managed internally or outsourced. • Oversee month-end and year-end accounting activities, ensuring accuracy and compliance with group requirements. • Coordinate annual audits and review outsourced statutory accounts and corporation tax submissions prior to sign-off. • Manage outsourced payroll and pension providers, ensuring compliance with all HMRC reporting requirements. • Prepare and submit VAT returns, while coordinating outsourced VGEC and R&D tax credit claim processes. • Deliver monthly and quarterly group reporting requirements and support forecasting, budgeting, and wider financial planning activities.

Role Description We are looking for a Finance Manager to oversee the financial operations of the business, ensuring accurate reporting, strong financial controls, and compliance across accounting, payroll, treasury, tax, and accounts payable activities. You will work closely with both the studio and group finance teams, managing outsourced providers and supporting the smooth running of all core finance processes. In this role, you will lead month-end and year-end activities, including revenue recognition, reconciliations, audits, and statutory reporting. You will also manage cash flow forecasting, payroll and tax compliance, VAT returns, and group reporting requirements, while supporting budgeting and forecasting processes across the business. The rundown: - Permanent role - Full time (37.5 hours per week) - Remote within the UK - Salary is competitive and dependent on experience Key responsibilities: - Evaluate and develop the finance operating model, including assessing which activities should be managed internally or through outsourced providers, and implementing process improvements to support the evolving needs of the business. - Oversee month-end and year-end accounting activities, including revenue recognition, royalties, recoupment arrangements, accruals, prepayments, fixed assets, and balance sheet reconciliations. - Manage intercompany transactions and group cross-charging processes, ensuring accuracy and compliance with group requirements. - Coordinate annual audits and review outsourced statutory accounts and corporation tax submissions prior to sign-off. - Manage outsourced payroll and pension providers, ensuring accurate processing and compliance with all HMRC reporting requirements. - Monitor cash flow, prepare forecasts, and manage day-to-day banking activities, including account reconciliations and funding requirements. - Oversee the outsourced accounts payable function, including management and reconciliation of company credit card expenditure. - Prepare and submit VAT returns, while coordinating outsourced VGEC and R&D tax credit claim processes. - Deliver monthly and quarterly group reporting requirements and support forecasting, budgeting, and wider financial planning activities. Qualifications - Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) - Proven experience in independently managing month-end processes, financial reporting, and balance sheet reconciliations - Strong understanding of payroll, VAT, and wider financial compliance requirements - Experience preparing cash flow forecasts and supporting budgeting and forecasting activities. - Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience working across internal teams and external providers Requirements - Experience within the video games, entertainment, software, or technology industries Benefits - Flexible hours - Duvet day - Your birthday off - Dedicated personal development time and support - Excellent holiday offering - Pension scheme - Health insurance - Life cover - Much more

• Work with designers to craft dialogue that delivers both quality narrative and the story beats across the game • Writing and revising in game dialogue and NPC barks • Ensure consistency of voice, tone and theme across the project • Help to develop plots, lore and character backgrounds • Editing and updating scripts based on feedback • A team player with excellent communication skills • Maintain story bibles and dialogue spreadsheets

Role Description nDreams Studio Elevation are re-establishing the boundaries of VR. We are looking for a writer who can create compelling story and character dialogue. If you're passionate about crafting narrative that can further elevate the player's experience for our VR games, we'd love to hear from you! As a writer, you will be producing engaging storylines and characters while ensuring that they also align with the overall creative vision. You'll work closely with level and narrative designers, animators and artists, ensuring that the narrative tone and quality matches that of the gameplay. The rundown: - 12 month fixed term contract - Full time (37.5 hours per week) - Fully remote within the UK - Salary range is competitive and dependent on experience. Key responsibilities: - Work with designers to craft dialogue that delivers both quality narrative and the story beats across the game. - Writing and revising in game dialogue and NPC barks. - Ensure consistency of voice, tone and theme across the project. - Help to develop plots, lore and character backgrounds. - Editing and updating scripts based on feedback. - A team player with excellent communication skills. - Maintain story bibles and dialogue spreadsheets. Qualifications - At least 3 years’ experience of delivering high quality writing. - Take direction as well as ability to drive your own tasks. - Excellent understanding of interactive storytelling. - Ability to address and incorporate creative feedback in an effective and constructive manner. - Well-developed written and verbal communication, documentation skills and the ability to convey abstract concepts. - Familiarity with Unreal and scripting tools. Requirements - A keen VR enthusiast, knowledgeable about the trends and hottest games in this sector of the industry and in particular the games design and playable content perspective. - Experience with VR development. Benefits - Flexible hours - Duvet days - Your birthday off - Dedicated personal development time and support - Regular socials - Excellent holiday offering - Pension scheme - Health insurance - Life cover - Much more

• Design and develop core animation systems for VR gameplay • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of animation with gameplay and narrative • Influence innovation in procedural animation, IK systems, and runtime rigging • Participate in setting technical direction and long-term strategy for animation technology • Ensure high code quality, good maintainability, and clear, robust documentation. • Mentor and support junior and mid-level programmers, fostering growth and excellence • Partner with project leadership, QA and production to ensure animation features meet quality and delivery goals • Evaluate and introduce new tools, techniques, and middleware to enhance workflows

We are looking for a Senior Programmer, specialising in animation, to drive the vision for character technology development at nDreams. This role combines hands-on technical expertise with autonomous, self-driven engineering initiative. You will develop cutting-edge character animation solutions while ensuring characters achieve the highest quality and perform optimally on target hardware.  You’ll be part of the Core Development Team, collaborating closely with external stakeholders across animation, project engineering, and production teams to advance character animation development in line with the company’s creative and technical goals. You will help refine processes, foster innovation, and play a key role in delivering cutting-edge character animation technology. The rundown: - Permanent role  - Full time (37.5 hours per week)   - Fully remote within UK  - Salary is competitive and dependent on experience    Key responsibilities:  - Design and develop core animation systems for VR gameplay  - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of animation with gameplay and narrative  - Influence innovation in procedural animation, IK systems, and runtime rigging  - Participate in setting technical direction and long-term strategy for animation technology  - Ensure high code quality, good maintainability, and clear, robust documentation. - Mentor and support junior and mid-level programmers, fostering growth and excellence  - Partner with project leadership, QA and production to ensure animation features meet quality and delivery goals  - Evaluate and introduce new tools, techniques, and middleware to enhance workflows

• Set and uphold high standards for character art quality across the project. • Help define and maintain the visual direction for characters in collaboration with art leadership. • Lead and improve character pipelines, workflows, and best practices. • Support and mentor character artists across different experience levels. • Work cross-disciplinarily to ensure character art aligns with creative, narrative, and gameplay goals. • Review character assets and provide constructive feedback to ensure consistency and quality. • Collaborate with production to plan work, estimate effort, and meet milestones. • Ensure characters meet technical, performance, and platform requirements. • Support outsourcing efforts where needed, including feedback and quality checks.

nDreams Studio Elevation is re-establishing the boundaries of VR. We’re looking for an exceptionally talented Lighting Artist to help us explore, create, and deliver world-leading innovation in software and VR hardware. With our first title nearing release and a second in early planning stages, it’s a great time to join our fully remote, VR-first studio.   As a lighting artist, you will work closely with the art team to create and refine lighting and shading elements within the game. Helping to enhance the visual atmosphere across various scenes and environments.    The rundown:   - 12-month fixed-term contract   - Full time (37.5 hours per week)   - Fully remote within the UK  - Salary is competitive and dependent on experience    Key responsibilities:  - Lighting levels in an optimised way that works across multiple platforms, including Quest VR.  - Ensuring clear golden path lighting that guides the player through their objectives and highlights points of interest.  - Working closely with the Art Director and Leads to develop and follow the artistic vision.  - Collaborating with other departments to help create memorable and captivating visuals.  - Creating and maintaining lighting documentation.

As a Lead Character Artist, you will set the benchmark for character quality and help shape the artistic vision for character development across the project. This role combines creative leadership with hands-on technical expertise, supporting strong workflows and scalable pipelines while ensuring characters achieve high visual quality and perform well on target hardware. You’ll collaborate closely with concept art, animation, design, narrative, tech, and production teams to keep character development aligned with the project’s creative and technical goals. You will help refine processes, encourage innovation, and play a key role in delivering a cohesive character art direction. The rundown:   - 12-month fixed-term contract   - Full time (37.5 hours per week)  - Fully remote within the UK  - Salary is competitive and dependent on experience    Key responsibilities:  - Set and uphold high standards for character art quality across the project. - Help define and maintain the visual direction for characters in collaboration with art leadership. - Lead and improve character pipelines, workflows, and best practices. - Support and mentor character artists across different experience levels. - Work cross-disciplinarily to ensure character art aligns with creative, narrative, and gameplay goals. - Review character assets and provide constructive feedback to ensure consistency and quality. - Collaborate with production to plan work, estimate effort, and meet milestones. - Ensure characters meet technical, performance, and platform requirements. - Support outsourcing efforts where needed, including feedback and quality checks.

As a Junior Automated QA Engineer, you will support the reliability and effectiveness of our automated testing across the project. Working closely with the QA team and wider studio, you’ll contribute hands‑on scripting and technical support to help ensure builds are tested efficiently, pipelines remain stable, and testing infrastructure performs reliably. The rundown:   - 12-month fixed-term contract   - Full time (37.5 hours per week)  - Fully remote within the UK  - Salary is competitive and dependent on experience  Key Responsibilities:  - Write scripts to deploy builds to devices automatically as part of an automated test suite.  - Author and maintain functional automated tests as determined by the needs of the project.  - Support other team members in their development of functional and performance testing.  - Work with QA stakeholders to ensure they can test builds efficiently, writing scripts or extending tools as necessary.  - Work with IT and other relevant parties to ensure that infrastructure (including headsets used in headless testing) remains healthy and outages are resolved promptly.  - Maintain stability in projects by correcting markup issues that prevent automated tests running, liaising with other teams (such as level design) as needed when making corrections.