Available Locations: Austin, TX OR San Francisco, CA
Level: This is a Director level role
About the department
The Corporate Finance team is responsible for enterprise level planning, budgeting, forecasting, analysis and capital allocation. This is a highly strategic & visible team that partners closely with our C-Suite and cross-functional business leaders to develop key priorities for the business as well as the financial plan required to deliver on our growth and profitability goals. Members of the Corporate Finance Team possess excellent analytical, critical reasoning, interpersonal, communication, influencing and leadership skills and are passionate about both problem solving as well as building high quality repeatable processes that scale with our rapid growth. Our role extends beyond analyzing and reporting; we take pride in helping to design and implement solutions to the different challenges that can arise in our high growth environment.
What you'll do
- Develop and execute our financial plan to support Cloudflare's growth and scale objectives.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to develop and prioritize strategic initiatives that drive revenue growth, cost optimization, and operational efficiency
- Lead the corporate forecasting and budgeting processes, including Annual Planning as well as monthly and quarterly business reviews
- Be a thought partner to business leaders helping to resolve competing business priorities and determine optimal investment allocation by function
- Prepare financial analysis, business insights and presentation materials for regular financial and business updates to the leadership team
- Partner with accounting to support month-end close, flux review processes, and deliver high-quality financial reporting
- Contribute to earnings releases, M&A activities and other corporate initiatives in close partnership with our Investor Relations and Corporate Development teams
- Design, automate, and optimize flexible finance processes to meet the needs of a dynamic and fast-growing business environment
- Own, refine financial systems roadmap in partnership with our transformation teams
- Lead, inspire, and develop our team of Corporate Finance and Anaplan COE professionals
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience
- 12+ years of progressive experience in Finance, Investment Banking or PE with prior experience in a corporate FP&A function. High growth, public company SaaS experience preferred
- Demonstrated success in building and leading high performance finance teams
- Strong executive presence and interpersonal skills with proficiency in distilling complex business information into consumable and actionable takeaways
- Expert in financial modeling with strong working knowledge of GAAP. Extensive experience architecting integrated models from scratch, in Excel or in other planning applications.
- Systems thinker. Experience in designing and implementing new systems and tools
- Demonstrated project management skills with experience improving and streamlining processes, and developing solutions to operational inefficiencies
- Intellectually curious with problem solving orientation. Strong analytical capabilities and business acumen with ability to apply rigorous logic and sound methods to solve multi-faceted problems. Not satisfied with easy or convenient answers
- Willingness to play "up and down the stack" diving into the details as well as managing exec level communications
- High proficiency with financial systems and tools. Anaplan, Netsuite, RevPro, Salesforce and Tableau experience is a plus
- BA/BS in Finance, Accounting, Economics or quantitative field; MBA or Masters preferred
Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
- For Bay Area-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $261,000 - $355,000
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
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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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