Senior Accounts Payable Specialist

Reposted 18 Hours Ago
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2 Locations
In-Office or Remote
Senior level
Cloud • Security • Software • Cybersecurity
Akamai powers and protects life online by solving the toughest challenges and turning the impossible into the possible.
The Role
The Senior Accounts Payable Specialist manages AP processes, ensures compliance, supports payment processing, and maintains stakeholder relationships while leading a team and overseeing month-end and year-end activities.
Summary Generated by Built In

Are you a fast learner who's fascinated by financial operations?

Do you enjoy working with customers and supporting them with your expertise?

Join our Accounts Payable Team!

Accounts Payable Team is our key stakeholder for all parties involved in processing invoices and employee expenses. Working with the business, individual employees and suppliers, we relish the true Akamai spirit. We provide them with a professional, diligent support and guidance while remaining collaborative, friendly and flexible!
This is fixed-term contract (18 months).

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This position provides comprehensive exposure to accounting and taxes within a global company operating in over 30 countries. It offers continuous learning opportunities, process development influence, and serves as a key connection for internal and external stakeholders.

As a process leader:

  • Managing AP processes assigned to your role based on the regional division and complying with statutory regulations
  • Managing and balancing team workload regarding invoice and payment processing and query resolution
  • Supporting and releasing payment requests and payment batches and ensure payments are made appropriately and timely
  • Building and maintaining the relationships with stakeholders
  • Ensuring compliance and SOX controls across AP processes
  • Overseeing month-end and year-end close processes (Audit, Tax Reporting, etc)

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

  • Have experience in an Accounts Payable department and previous experience as people leader
  • Show excellent analytical and problem solving skills
  • Show excellent written and verbal communication and relationship management skills
  • Motivate many kinds of direct reports and team or project members
  • Have continuous improvement mindset
  • Show great Excel skills, including pivot tables and Vlookup's
  • Be eager to contribute in a high-growth, fast paced, technology oriented environment

Work in a way that works for you

FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply. 
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We power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges, together.

At Akamai, we're curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you'll thrive here.

Working for you

At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

  • Your health
  • Your finances
  • Your family
  • Your time at work
  • Your time pursuing other endeavors

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.

About us

Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.

Join us

Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you!
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Skills Required

  • Experience in Accounts Payable department
  • Previous experience as people leader
  • Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to motivate direct reports
  • Continuous improvement mindset
  • Great Excel skills (pivot tables, Vlookup)
  • Eager to contribute in a technology-oriented environment

Akamai Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Akamai Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Akamai Technologies.

  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Unlimited PTO in the U.S., wellness days, paid volunteering time, and the FlexBase model contribute to broad time‑off flexibility. These practices are described as supporting strong work‑life balance.
  • Parental & Family Support Generous paid parental leaves, paid family care leave, subsidized backup childcare, and inclusive family‑building benefits via Carrot form a comprehensive family support suite. Coverage spans fertility support through caregiving resources.
  • Retirement Support A 401(k) with a substantial company match and immediate vesting, plus Roth and Mega Backdoor Roth options, underpin long‑term savings. These features provide reliable long‑term savings opportunities.

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The Company
HQ: Cambridge, MA
10,285 Employees
Year Founded: 1998

What We Do

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. Every moment, billions of people, all over the world, are using the internet to shop, play games, look after finances, learn remotely, share videos, connect across the world, and so much more. These life-shaping digital experiences wouldn’t be possible without Akamai. We power and protect life online. It’s an extraordinary mission, and our global teams achieve it by solving the toughest challenges, and turning the impossible into the possible. With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for businesses to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. That’s why innovative companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences. Thanks to our world’s most distributed platform for cloud computing, security, and content delivery. Akamai keeps applications and experiences closer and threats farther away. Devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology, we’re always pushing ground-breaking ideas and driving innovation. Do you want to power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges with us? Be part of an amazing team!

Why Work With Us

Our people are devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology. We find solutions through persistence, and push ground-breaking ideas forward with urgency and courage. This creates an environment where we harness creative energy and drive innovation. We are inclusive and diverse, and we love to collaborate across the world.

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