Finance Analyst Rotation Program — 3-Year Leadership Track

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Columbia (SC); On-site; USD 54,000 - 96,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship program

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. invites you to join the Financial Development Program (AFDP), a 3-year rotation through finance specializations including business/product line finance, commercial/sales finance, corporate FP&A, and financial systems.

You will gain broad exposure to reporting, forecasting, and budgeting with mentors and program leadership guiding your growth. As an Associate Financial Analyst, you will develop budgets, perform variance analyses, learn Akamai's finance systems, and

Qualifications

• 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

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

Financial analysis

Variance analysis

Forecasting

Reporting

Data modeling

Education

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

Tools

Excel

Financial systems

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. invites you to join the Financial Development Program (AFDP), a 3-year rotation through finance specializations including business/product line finance, commercial/sales finance, corporate FP&A, and financial systems.

You will gain broad exposure to reporting, forecasting, and budgeting with mentors and program leadership guiding your growth. As an Associate Financial Analyst, you will develop budgets, perform variance analyses, learn Akamai's finance systems, and