Associate, Strategic Finance & Investor Relations

About Us At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s 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 Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re 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 you’re 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, you’ll fit right in. 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 techni