Associate Financial Analyst

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Jefferson City (MO); On-site; USD 54,000 - 96,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K savings plan

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. invites highly motivated graduates to join the three-year Financial Development Program, featuring three one-year rotations across finance functions, immersive seminars, and leadership mentorship.

As an Associate Financial Analyst, you will build budgets, forecasts, and analysis; learn systems and reporting cadences; and gain exposure to FP&A, commercial finance, and strategic planning, preparing you to lead finance initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, or related field, graduating Jan–Jun 2027.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Internship or work experience in financial analysis.
• Demonstrated leadership and initiative.

Responsibilities

• Develop annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, and resource planning.
• Perform variance analysis with accounting to ensure proper expense recognition.
• Learn finance systems, tools, and reporting cadences.
• Provide timely monthly reporting and analyze variances, drivers, metrics.
• Develop data, reports, models, and ad hoc analyses.
• Identify process improvements and lead implementation with teams.

Job description

Do you want to begin an exciting career in finance with mentorship from industry leaders?

Are you looking to explore different facets of finance in an exciting learning environment?

Become a leader through our 3-year rotation program!

The Akamai Financial Development Program (AFDP) includes three one-year assignments combining intensive job assignments, Akamai specific seminars, and a curriculum designed to advance individual productivity, business acumen, and resourcefulness. Assignments provide exposure to many finance specialties, including: business/product line finance, commercial/sales finance, corporate financial planning and analysis, and financial systems.

Join our dedicated Financial Planning & Analysis organization

In each of your assignments, you will develop your finance skills with engaged support from program leadership, members, and mentors. You will gain broad exposure to many aspects of finance including reporting and analysis, forecasting, and budgeting. After three years of training and professional development, you will stand out as a leader in finance.

As an Associate Financial Analyst with AFDP, you will be responsible for:

• Developing the annual budgets, quarterly forecasts and outlooks, and resource planning analysis
• Performing deep-dive variance analysis on spend areas, collaborating with our accounting team to ensure proper expense recognition
• Learning the underlying systems, tools, and reporting cadences used across the finance organization to support the business
• Providing timely financial reporting of monthly results and analysis of key variances, business drivers, metrics, and trends
• Developing new data, reports, models, and ad hoc analyses to support business needs
• Identifying process improvement opportunities, gaining support for changes, and leading implementation collaboratively with our teams

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Be graduating with a Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, or a related field between January - June 2027 (preferred)
• Display excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Have prior internship or work experience in financial analysis or a similar role
• Demonstrate leadership capability and initiative to learn new roles

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day. Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.

Our focus is simple:

Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.

Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.

Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.

AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.

At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits. (https://www.akamai.com/careers/working-at-akamai?utm_source=akamai&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benefits)

Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $53,600 - $96,400/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.

Equal Employment Opportunity Rights

Akamai Technologies is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.