**Are you passionate about ensuring business success?
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**Do you relish the opportunity to take ownership and make an impact?
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**Join our Finance-Deal Desk Team!
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The Deal Desk is a cross-functional team responsible for providing pricing, product and deal structure guidance to sales.
We maximize the value of the products sold while maximizing the related revenue associated to those sales.
The group serves as a key authority for all contract approvals when pricing and margins drop below sales management discounting thresholds.
**Partner with the best**
As a Deal Desk Analyst, you will be a trusted advisor to our Sales and Finance functions.
Providing guidance, advice and proactively supporting all commercial aspects of our offering.
As a Deal Desk Analyst, you will be responsible for:
- Assisting Sales in structuring and pricing deals.
- Providing deal analysis support for all deals requiring escalations; including analyzing, pricing and financial performance, and custom contract structures.
- Ensuring Deal Desk policies and procedures are properly followed, and approvals are well documented.
- Acting as a liaison between Sales and other key stakeholders involved in the deal structuring process
- Identifying and suggesting changes to published pricing and deal structure definitions for existing products.
- Developing and delivering financial reports on market trends to drive better communication and future decision making.
**Do what you love**
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have experience in finance or supporting product pricing, contract structures, and developing proposals.
- Demonstrate good analytical skills and attention to detail.
- Possess the ability to collect, visualize and analyze information in detail, have a different points of view.
- Have Portuguese and/or Spanish language skills
- Possess exceptional interpersonal skills and ability to negotiate with Sales
- Demonstrate intermediate level Microsoft Excel skills - formulas, formatting, Pivot tables
**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.
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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.
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**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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