Job Description

Do you want an opportunity to make a difference?

Are you excited about discovering value-add opportunities while mitigating risks?

Join our Internal Audit team

The Internal Audit Department reports to the Audit Committee of Akamai's Board of Directors. The Department's charter is to systematically evaluate and recommend improvements for the effectiveness of risk management, controls, operational processes, and governance.

Partner with the best

The Internal Auditor II conducts risk-based audits across strategic, operational, financial, and compliance areas. This role involves performing testing, creating detailed workpapers, and identifying control gaps or process improvement opportunities to enhance governance practices.

As an Internal Auditor II, you will be responsible for:

• Executing risk-based business process audits and transactional analysis to identify anomalies, trends, exceptions, or control weaknesses through sampling methodologies.
• Preparing clear, well-supported, high-quality workpaper deliverables encompassing scope, testing conducted, observations documented, and conclusions finalized.
• Identifying control gaps, process deficiencies, and possible policy violations effectively while ensuring thorough analysis and compliance.
• Partnering with process owners to identify root causes while supporting the creation of effective corrective action plans.
• Tracking and monitoring process improvement status while validating closure of corrective actions to ensure effectiveness and completion.
• Ensuring work aligns with the International Professional Practices Framework (IPPF) established by the Institute of Internal Auditors.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Possess expertise in Accounting, Finance, Business, or related fields, with 24 of relevant experience in auditing or consulting.
• Demonstrate expertise in internal controls, risk management frameworks, and U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).
• Show expertise in analyzing, documenting, and assessing business processes while collaborating effectively with diverse, cross-functional teams.
• Obtain certifications like CIA, CPA, CA, or CFE, or actively work toward achieving them.

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.

FlexBase adapts to your job's needs

Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.

We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

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