Senior Director, Strategic Modeling & Planning

Available Locations: Austin TX New York NY San Francisco CA

About the Department

The Finance & BizOps team provides the financial insights and strategic guidance to shape Cloudflares growth profitability and investment strategy. Were partners who embed across the businessconnecting strategy to execution driving planning and analysis and collaborating with cross-functional leaders to develop and deliver key priorities. This team of passionate problem-solvers thrives in a fast-paced environment designing and implementing high-quality scalable solutions.

About the Role

We are looking for a highly strategic analytical and forward-looking leader to join our team as the Senior Director Strategic Modeling & Planning. This leader will drive modeling advancements while translating complex outputs into clear actionable narratives for the executive team.

You will be responsible for designing owning and governing the core logic methodology and forecast quality of our revenue model and using this expertise to drive more insightful and impactful modeling techniques across the organization.

This is a pivotal leadership role that will also directly own how we enhance our planning and forecasting capabilities and drive scalability with Anaplan.

What Youll Do

• Own the Corporate Revenue Engine: Own and elevate the end-to-end design execution and continuous improvement of our revenue forecast. You will lead our monthly quarterly and annual revenue planning processes including variance analysis scenario planning and executive-level reporting for all topline metrics
• Lead Strategic & Scenario Modeling: Build and maintain robust multi-scenario models that connect operational KPIs to the financial forecast enabling real-time scenario planning delivering high-value insights and supporting long-range planning investment prioritization and executive what-if analysis.
• Lead the System & Modeling Roadmap: Directly manage the Anaplan COE and own the long-term vision for our finance system. You are responsible for the COEs dual mandate: executing the build of a scalable automated revenue model while also broadly enabling the entire finance organization.
• Drive AI & Transformation: Research prototype and champion the adoption and implementation of advanced analytics and AI tools.
• Drive Executive-Level Storytelling: Translate complex and often incomplete financial data into a clear actionable topline narrative. You will be responsible for creating and presenting insights for the executive leadership team board and earnings preparation.
• Be a Talent Magnet & Leader: Recruit lead and mentor a high-performing team fostering a culture of excellence and innovation.

Examples Of Desirable Skills Knowledge And Experience:

• 15 years of progressive experience in a highly analytical strategic capacity (e.g. Investment Banking Private Equity Top-Tier Consulting) or a similar corporate builder role with deep experience in a high-growth public company SaaS environment.
• Financial Modeling Expertise: You are a true master modeler. You must have extensive from-scratch experience architecting complex integrated three-statement financial models for high-growth public companies.
• Systems-Thinker & Architect: You think in terms of data pipelines logic layers and product roadmaps not just spreadsheets. You must have deep experience with financial planning applications (Anaplan strongly preferred) and a strong grasp of data structures to effectively design and implement new scalable systems.
• Proven Leader-of-Leaders: Demonstrated success in building and leading high-performance highly-analytical teams.
• World-Class Executive Presence: You must be able to distill complex modeling architecture and simulation outputs into simple consumable and actionable takeaways for a C-suite and Board-level audience.
• Intellectually Curious & Rigorous: You have a problem-solving orientation and can apply rigorous first-principles logic to solve multi-faceted problems. You are not satisfied with easy or convenient answers.
• BA/BS in a quantitative field

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted based on location:

For the Bay area the expected salary range is $320000 - $391000

For the New York city area the expected salary range is $303000 - $371000

Equity

This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflares equity plan.

Benefits

Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses support caregiving build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.

Health & Welfare Benefits

• Medical/Rx Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Commuter Spending Accounts
• Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
• On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
• Global Travel Medical Insurance

Financial Benefits

• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life & Accident Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Participation Plan

Time Off

• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
• Leave programs including parental pregnancy health medical and bereavement leave

What Makes Cloudflare Special

Were not just a highly ambitious large-scale technology company. Were a highly ambitious large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: Since 2014 weve equipped more than 2400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work technology already used by Cloudflares enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project: In 2017 we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project weve provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Heres the deal - we dont store client IP addresses never ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something youd like to be a part of Wed love to hear from you!

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