Financial Analyst Associate - 3-Year Leadership Rotation

Akamai Career Site; United States; Hybrid; USD 54,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai invites high-potential graduates to join the Financial Development Program (AFDP), a three-year rotation across finance disciplines including budgeting, forecasting, and reporting. The program blends assignments with Akamai seminars and mentorship to build business acumen and leadership.

As an Associate Financial Analyst, you will develop budgets and forecasts, perform variance analysis, learn core systems, and deliver monthly financial reporting.

Qualifications

• Be graduating with a Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics (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 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

Communication skills

Leadership

Budgeting & forecasting

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics

Job description

Akamai invites high-potential graduates to join the Financial Development Program (AFDP), a three-year rotation across finance disciplines including budgeting, forecasting, and reporting. The program blends assignments with Akamai seminars and mentorship to build business acumen and leadership.

As an Associate Financial Analyst, you will develop budgets and forecasts, perform variance analysis, learn core systems, and deliver monthly financial reporting.