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 various processes. This includes risk management, operational processes, and governance, to enable the organization meet its business objectives.
Partner with the best
In this role, you will utilize your solid IT skills and business acumen to review complex IT processes. You will identify potential risks and opportunities for market-leading organizations in a high-growth and cutting-edge technology industry.
As an Senior Internal Auditor, you will be responsible for:
- Assisting with IT SOX planning through risk assessments, analysis of in-scope systems, and coordination of the testing approach.
- Coordinating, scheduling, and conducting IT SOX walkthroughs effectively while ensuring compliance with established standards and requirements.
- Conducting internal controls testing to assess operational effectiveness, identify deviations or gaps, and assist with root cause analysis and remediation.
- Updating and maintaining controls and relevant control information within the Auditboard (now Optro) platform consistently throughout the year.
- Partnering and coordinating with external auditors to provide necessary documentation while ensuring compliance with sampling guidelines to optimize audit reliance.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Hold a background in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
- Demonstrate expertise in planning and conducting IT SOX testing, with experience in accounting or consulting firms being advantageous.
- Demonstrate expertise in ITGCs, including access controls, change management, data integrity, and computer operations management.
- Demonstrate expertise with platforms and databases, including UNIX, Windows, Oracle, and MS SQL.
- Demonstrate understanding and practical knowledge of SOX, AICPA, COSO, COBIT, and SSAE attestation standards effectively.
- Demonstrate exceptional organization, meticulous attention to detail, and unwavering focus on producing the highest quality outcomes achievable.
- Demonstrate exceptional ability to communicate effectively through both spoken and written formats.
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.