Associate – Strategic Finance & Investor Relations

Available Locations: 

• San Francisco, CA

About the team

The Finance team is a critical pillar of Cloudflare’s success, translating strategy into financial outcomes, and serving as a trusted voice to the public markets, the Board, and our shareholders. The Investor Relations team is a small, high-impact group that tells Cloudflare’s 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.

About the role

Cloudflare is looking for an Associate, Investor Relations & Strategic Finance to join our lean IR team and help power how we engage with Wall Street. You will be a core contributor to the quarterly earnings cycle, our consensus and financial modeling work, investor events including our annual Investor Day, and strategic finance projects for senior leadership.

This is a hands-on, high-visibility role. The work you produce will go directly to the CFO, CEO, Board, and public markets, so we hold ourselves to an exceptionally high bar on accuracy. You will work closely with Finance, Accounting, Legal, Communications, FP&A, and the executive team, and you will get broad exposure to the business and to the public markets. We are AI-native in how we work, and we expect you to treat modern tooling as a force multiplier on insight, productivity, and rigor.

What you’ll do

Quarterly earnings and consensus

• Support the end-to-end quarterly earnings process, helping draft and assemble the press release, supplemental financial information, prepared remarks, Q&A prep, and investor deck.
• Build and maintain our consensus model: collect and analyze sell-side estimates and models, and benchmark them against internal forecasts.
• Support the guidance process, including share count forecasting, sensitivity analyses, and supporting materials for leadership.
• Drive tie-out and validation work so that every figure, claim, and disclosure across the press release, supplemental, scripts, Q&A, deck, 10-Q, and 10-K is accurate and consistent.
• Help prepare for earnings Q&A: anticipated questions, peer transcript research, key stats and proof points, and live-call backup material.
• Coordinate the post-earnings analyst callback program, including scheduling, notes, and feedback summaries.

Investor engagement

• Support day-to-day engagement with sell-side analysts and institutional investors, including responding to inbound requests and maintaining our investor database.
• Help plan and run investor events, including sell-side conferences, one-on-ones, on-site investor visits, and non-deal roadshows.
• Prepare briefing materials for the CEO, CFO, and other executives ahead of investor meetings, including investor profiles, talking points, and Q&A prep.
• Maintain core IR collateral, including the investor presentation, fact sheets, and IR website content.
• Analyze shareholder ownership and support investor targeting.

Investor Day and strategic finance projects

• Support the planning and execution of our annual Investor Day, including the invite tracker and registration, content drafting, validation, and day-of logistics.
• Contribute to strategic finance projects such as peer benchmarking, competitive analyses, long-range financial modeling, and ad-hoc analyses for senior leadership.

Analytics and tooling

• Monitor and synthesize analyst coverage, peer results, investor sentiment, and industry trends into clear, actionable summaries for leadership.
• Build and maintain the models, dashboards, trackers, and validation tools that let a small team operate at scale.
• Use AI-native tooling and automation to improve speed, accuracy, and insight across the IR function.

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• • 3–5 years of experience in investment banking, equity research, investor relations, FP&A, corporate finance, or equity investing; exposure to public technology companies is a plus.
  • Strong financial modeling skills, including building and maintaining operating models, consensus models, and share count and dilution forecasts.
  • Solid understanding of financial statements, public-company reporting, and valuation; familiarity with SaaS or consumption-based revenue models is a plus.
  • Strong written communication skills, with the ability to draft clear, concise materials for senior executives and to turn complex financial or technical concepts into simple narratives.
  • Exceptional attention to detail, and pride in getting every number right.
  • An ownership mindset: you are organized, take initiative, and can manage multiple deadlines in a fast-paced environment, especially during earnings season.
  • High-trust collaboration, with the ability to work effectively with teams across Finance, Accounting, Legal, and Communications.
  • AI-native curiosity and skill: fluency with modern AI tooling and a track record of using it to amplify your impact.
  • Sound judgment with confidential information, including awareness of materiality, fair disclosure, and Reg FD (or a strong willingness to learn).
  • Genuine interest in cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, or AI, and in the public markets.

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For Bay Area based hires: Estimated annual salary of $117,000 - $161,000

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