Emerging Finance Leader — Rotational Analyst Program

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Baton Rouge (LA); On-site; USD 54,000 - 96,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K savings plan

Company holidays

Vacation (PTO)

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. invites applications for its Financial Development Program (AFDP), a 3-year rotation across finance functions including business/product line finance, commercial, corporate FP&A, and financial systems.

Associates gain exposure to reporting, forecasting, budgeting, and system mastery under mentorship, building leadership potential for a finance leadership track. As an Associate Financial Analyst, you will craft annual budgets, budgets, quarterly forecasts, perform

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, or a related field (preferred Jan–Jun 2027)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Prior internship or work experience in financial analysis or a similar role
• Demonstrate leadership capability and initiative to learn new roles

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

Excellent written and verbal comms

Leadership capability

Financial analysis experience

Internship/experience in finance

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, or related field

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. invites applications for its Financial Development Program (AFDP), a 3-year rotation across finance functions including business/product line finance, commercial, corporate FP&A, and financial systems.

Associates gain exposure to reporting, forecasting, budgeting, and system mastery under mentorship, building leadership potential for a finance leadership track. As an Associate Financial Analyst, you will craft annual budgets, budgets, quarterly forecasts, perform