About the Team
The Corporate Finance team is responsible for enterprise-wide planning, budgeting, forecasting, and capital allocation. We are strategic business partners who work cross-functionally to shape Cloudflare's growth, investment strategy, and operational efficiency. If you thrive in fast-paced environments, love solving complex problems, and want direct exposure to executive leadership, this is the role for you.
About the Role
We're looking for a high-performing Finance Manager to join our Corporate Finance team. In this highly visible IC role, you'll partner directly with Cloudflare's senior leaders to drive decision-making across the company. You'll build models and insights that guide strategy, optimize investment, and support our mission to help build a better Internet.
What You'll Do
- Partner with senior leaders to support enterprise-level strategic planning, budgeting, and capital allocation decisions.
- Lead the corporate forecasting and budgeting processes, including annual planning and regular business reviews.
- Build, maintain, and improve financial models to inform decisions across the P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow, including areas like tax, stock comp, share count, and EPS.
- Deliver clear, actionable financial insights through monthly reporting, variance analysis, and executive presentations.
- Work cross-functionally to identify business drivers, trends, opportunities, and risks, aligning stakeholders and driving operational efficiency.
- Collaborate with Accounting to ensure accurate, timely closes and support management/external reporting.
- Support Investor Relations with model inputs, earnings release prep, and Q&A.
- Contribute to M&A activities, board materials, and other strategic initiatives.
- Champion scalable, repeatable finance processes (automate, simplify, and eliminate routine work wherever possible).
- Support high-impact special projects and ad hoc analysis as needed.
This is an individual contributor role reporting to the Head of Corporate and G&A Finance.
What We're Looking For
- 7+ years of progressive experience in Finance or Investment Banking with prior experience in a corporate FP&A function; high-growth, public company SaaS experience preferred.
- Finance-minded with strong attention to detail and a focus on scalable, repeatable process execution.
- Intellectually curious with a problem-solving orientation and strong business acumen; able to apply rigorous logic and sound methods to solve complex problems. Not satisfied with easy or convenient answers.
- Proven ability to build trust and align cross-functional stakeholders.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills; able to distill complex business information into actionable takeaways for diverse audiences.
- Willingness to play "up and down the stack" diving into the details as well as managing executive-level communications.
- Expert financial modeling skills with strong working knowledge of US GAAP; advanced proficiency in MS Excel and Google Sheets required.
- High proficiency with financial systems; experience with Anaplan, NetSuite, RevPro, Salesforce, and Tableau is a plus.
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a quantitative field.
Why This Role?
- Direct collaboration with Cloudflare's executive team. Be at the table where key decisions are made.
- High visibility and impact in a mission-driven company transforming the Internet.
- Career growth opportunity on a high-performance finance team.
Equity
This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare's 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
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What We Do
Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET) is the leading connectivity cloud company on a mission to help build a better Internet. It empowers organizations to make their employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost. Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud delivers the most full-featured, unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools, so any organization can gain the control they need to work, develop, and accelerate their business.
Powered by one of the world’s largest and most interconnected networks, Cloudflare blocks billions of threats online for its customers every day. It is trusted by millions of organizations – from the largest brands to entrepreneurs and small businesses to nonprofits, humanitarian groups, and governments across the globe.
Why Work With Us
Cloudflare employees come from all walks of life. We are mission-driven, and our team is energized by a collaborative, creative environment that celebrates our differences and fosters new ways to grow together.
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