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Director, Strategic Finance & Investor Relations

Cloudflare· Accounting and Finance
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Hybrid (New York, NY), Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)$200k - $275kfull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Director of Strategic Finance & Investor Relations at Cloudflare, responsible for leading the quarterly earnings cycle, long-range financial modeling, and investor communications; acts as a key liaison to CFO/CEO and senior leadership, and spearheads AI-enabled, high-visibility IR efforts.

Responsibilities

  • 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 company's 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 — cross-check ensuring figures/claims/disclosures tie out across materials and filings.
  • Serve as a primary point of contact for sell-side analysts and institutional investors; build and maintain relationships.
  • Articulate the investment narrative and Cloudflare’s long-term financial model in a credible way.
  • Plan and execute investor events: conferences, one-on-ones, investor visits, Investor Day.
  • Prepare executives for investor interactions with tailored materials, talking points, and Q&A prep.
  • Develop and maintain IR collateral: investor presentation, fact sheets, IR website content, and board investor update materials.
  • Co-lead Investor Day planning and execution; manage invites, content, logistics, and post-event follow-through.
  • Lead strategic finance projects: benchmarking, long-range modeling, competitive analyses, ad-hoc analyses.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Finance, Accounting, Legal, Communications, FP&A, and Executive team.
  • Monitor analyst coverage, investor sentiment, and market trends; provide insights to CFO/CEO/Board.
  • Build internal analytical infrastructure (models, dashboards, trackers) to scale the IR function.
  • Drive AI-native tooling and automation within IR operations.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience combining investor relations, equity research, investment banking, FP&A, corporate finance, or equity investing (ideally in-house at a high-growth public tech company).
  • Deep technical fluency with public-company reporting, financial statements, capital markets, valuation methodologies, and SaaS/consumption-based revenue models.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; ability to draft in executive voice and translate complex concepts for non-technical audiences.
  • Advanced financial modeling skills: operating models, share-count and dilution forecasts, guidance sensitivity analyses, and consensus benchmarking.
  • Ownership mindset with ability to drive end-to-end processes in a fast-paced environment; high integrity and accuracy in external disclosures.
  • High-trust collaboration with CFO/CEO/Board/Legal/Accounting/FP&A and external stakeholders.
  • AI-native curiosity and skill; experience using modern AI tooling to enhance impact.
  • Sound judgment with confidential information, materiality, Reg FD, and disclosure standards.
  • Sector background in cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, or AI; existing relationships with top-tier sell-side analysts/investors a plus.
  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Business, or related field; MBA, CFA, or CPA preferred.

Skills

Required:Quarterly earnings process managementExecutive-facing guidance developmentFinancial modelingInvestor relations communicationsCross-functional collaboration
Nice to have:AI-native tooling

Benefits

  • Health & Welfare Benefits: Medical/Rx, Dental, Vision, Flexible Spending Accounts, Commuter Spending Accounts, Fertility & Family Forming Benefits, mental health support, EAP, Global Travel Medical Insurance.
  • Financial Benefits: Short and Long Term Disability, Life & Accident Insurance, 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan, Employee Stock Participation Plan.
  • Time Off: Flexible paid time off, parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave.
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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