Strategy & Operations Analyst II - OpEx & HC MGMT

Do strategic analytics excite you?

Do you like collaborating across teams to deliver operational excellence?

Join our Cloud Technology Program Management team

We are seeking a data-savvy, detail-oriented Analyst to join our PMO's Transformation and Operations team. This individual will play a critical role in our Data Transformation initiatives supporting data standardization, metric development, performance monitoring, and analytical insights that drive decision-making, and organizational effectiveness.

Partner with the best

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a cross-functional environment, can translate data into actionable insights and has the critical thinking to challenge inconsistencies in metrics or trends.

As a Strategy & Operations Analyst II, you will be responsible for:

• Collecting, consolidating, transforming, and automating headcount and budget data from multiple systems into standardized and automated formats
• Driving requirements gathering, user acceptance testing, and automation of dashboards and analytical tools using platforms such as Tableau, Google Apps Scripts, Gemini, and Claude Code
• Collaborating with finance, hiring managers, and talent acquisition to ensure accurate tracking, maintenance of headcount and cost data, along with standardizing procedures for these processes
• Identifying and investigating anomalies or inconsistencies in headcount or OpEx data, and suggest corrective actions or data-quality improvements
• Enabling easier data intelligence through the automation of OpEx & Headcount Reporting
• Partnering with strategy & operations leadership, hiring managers, finance, and talent acquisition to ensure alignment on reporting goals, analytical needs, and automation
• Recommending and implementing data governance and analytics best practices

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have relevant experience in data analytics, business analysis, or a similar role
• Be familiar with Matrix / Virtual Org Dynamics: solid understanding of how to allocate costs and headcount across virtual business units and functions
• Be proficient in tools such as SQL, Google Sheets, Geminin, Google Apps Scripts, Claude Code, and Tableau
• Be proficient using AI tooling to automate data analysis and workflow automation
• Have experience with financial & budget data
• Have great analytical and critical thinking skills with a detail-oriented mindset
• Be comfortable with ambiguity and ability to drive structure and clarity in complex environments
• Be passionate for streamlining complex data collection & budget approval processes
• Have excellent communication skills; able to present complex data to non-technical audiences clearly and effectively

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.