Director, Strategic Finance & Investor Relations

At Cloudflare we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the worlds largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware installing software or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network which gets smarter with every request. As a result they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazines Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the Worlds Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.

At Cloudflare were not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; were looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a normalized problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow while ensuring that every improvement no matter how small is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If youre the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward youll fit right in.

Available Locations: New York NY San Francisco CA

The Finance team is a critical pillar of Cloudflares success translating strategy into financial outcomes and serving as a trusted voice to the public markets the Board and our shareholders. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a normalized problem and the curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow while ensuring that every improvement no matter how small is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If youre the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward youll fit right in. Come join us!

Cloudflare is looking for a Director of Strategic Finance & Investor Relations to serve as a key leader on our Investor Relations team and a trusted partner to the CFO CEO and senior leadership. This role reports to the VP of Strategic Finance Treasury Deal Desk & Investor Relations and is the engine room of how Cloudflare tells its financial story to the public markets translating one of the most differentiated technology platforms in the world into a clear credible and compelling investment narrative.

You will own the end-to-end quarterly earnings cycle drive our long-term financial model and consensus discipline partner directly with the CFO and senior leadership on guidance and lead the analytical and communications work behind every major investor and analyst touchpoint quarterly calls conferences our annual Investor Day and ad-hoc executive projects. You will be the connective tissue between Finance Accounting Legal Communications Product Sales and the executive team and the person who makes sure every number every claim and every word we put in front of Wall Street is accurate.

This is a high-visibility high-ownership role on a very lean IR team. We move fast we ship work that goes directly to the CEO CFO Board and public markets and we hold ourselves to an exceptionally high bar on accuracy and we are AI-native in how we work treating modern tooling as a force multiplier on insight productivity and rigor.

As the Director Strategic Finance & Investor Relations you will be the operational and analytical lead for Cloudflares engagement with the public markets. Your primary responsibilities will include:

Quarterly earnings and consensus management

• Own the end-to-end quarterly earnings process: press release supplemental financial information prepared remarks (CEO and CFO scripts) Q&A prep investor deck and supporting validation work.
• Partner with the CFO and senior leadership to develop the companys guidance (including share count forecasting) and own the executive-facing materials that frame guidance decisions sensitivity ranges and the trade-offs in how we communicate them.
• Lead the Q&A preparation process anticipated questions suggested answers peer transcript triangulation key stats and proof points and live-call backup material.
• Lead the post-earnings analyst callback program including coordinating callbacks with 30 sell-side analysts across CEO and CFO sessions.
• Drive earnings materials validation the cross-check pass that ensures every figure claim and disclosure across the press release supplemental scripts Q&A deck 10-Q and 10-K ties out and is internally and externally consistent.

Investor engagement and external communications

• Serve as a primary point of contact for sell-side analysts and institutional investors; build and maintain strong trust-based relationships with our covering analysts and shareholders.
• Articulate the Cloudflare investment narrative our connectivity cloud strategy the Workers and Developer Platform story and our long-term financial model in a way that is both compelling and credible.
• Plan and execute the calendar of investor events: sell-side conferences one-on-ones on-site investor visits and our annual Investor Day.
• Prepare the CEO CFO and other senior executives for every investor interaction with tailored briefing materials talking points and Q&A prep.
• Develop and maintain core IR collateral: investor presentation fact sheets IR website content and board-of-directors investor update materials.

Investor Day and special projects

• Co-lead the planning and execution of our annual Investor Day invite tracker and registration management co-author all presentation content and prepared remarks across all presenters own the supporting documentation validation day-of logistics and post-event follow-through.
• Lead select strategic finance projects: peer benchmarking analyses long-range financial modeling competitive analyses and ad-hoc executive-level financial analyses.

Cross-functional partnership and analytics

• Be a trusted partner to Finance Accounting Legal Communications FP&A and the executive team the person who knows where every number comes from and what it means.
• Monitor and synthesize analyst coverage peer performance investor sentiment market dynamics and industry trends; provide actionable insights to the CFO CEO and Board of Directors.
• Build and maintain the internal analytical infrastructure that powers the function the models dashboards trackers and validation systems that let a small team operate at scale.
• Drive the IR functions use of AI-native tooling and automation treating modern tools as a force multiplier on insight productivity accuracy and stakeholder communications.

To succeed in this role you should be a strategic thinker with deep financial acumen exceptional written and verbal communication skills an ownership mindset and a genuine intellectual curiosity about both the business and the public markets. Specifically:

• • 10 years of experience combining investor relations equity research investment banking FP&A corporate finance or equity investing ideally with meaningful time in-house at a high-growth public technology company.
  • Deep technical fluency with public-company reporting financial statements capital markets valuation methodologies and SaaS / consumption-based revenue models. Comfort debating modeling assumptions and valuation mechanics.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills including the ability to draft in the voice of senior executives translate complex technical or financial concepts into clear narratives for non-technical audiences and operate confidently in high-stakes external communications.
  • Advanced financial modeling skills fluency in building maintaining and stress-testing operating models share-count and dilution forecasts guidance sensitivity analyses and consensus benchmarks.
  • An ownership mindset comfort owning a process end-to-end driving operational structure in a fast-paced environment and operating with the integrity and accuracy demanded by external disclosure.
  • High-trust collaboration the ability to build credibility quickly with senior internal stakeholders (CFO CEO Board Legal Accounting FP&A) and external stakeholders (sell-side analysts institutional investors).
  • AI-native curiosity and skill fluency with modern AI tooling and a track record of using it to amplify your impact. We are building an AI-forward organization and the right candidate sees AI as a partner not a threat.
  • Sound judgment with confidential information a clear understanding of materiality fair disclosure Reg FD and the discretion required when working with pre-announcement financial data.
  • Sector background in cybersecurity cloud infrastructure developer platforms or AI preferred existing relationships with top-tier infrastructure / software sell-side analysts and institutional investors a plus.
  • Bachelors degree in Finance Economics Accounting Business or a related field; MBA CFA or CPA preferred.

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For Bay Area based hires: Estimated annual salary of $200000 - $275000
• For New York City based hired: Estimated annual salary of $190000 - $262000

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

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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