Corporate Finance Manager

About the role

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.

This is an individual contributor role reporting to the Senior Director of Finance.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders to support enterprise-level strategic planning, budgeting, and capital allocation decisions.
• Led corporate forecasting, budgeting, and long-range planning processes, establishing the cadence for annual planning and executive business reviews.
• Architect and continuously optimize comprehensive financial models across the P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on areas like share count, EPS, tax, and stock-based compensation.
• 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.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Extensive experience leveraging AI tools (e.g., Windsurf/Devin, Cursor, OpenCode, etc.) to automate workflows, accelerate financial modeling, analyze large datasets, and generate business insights.
• 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, and Salesforce is a plus.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a quantitative field.

Pay

• Estimated annual salary of $154,000 - $211,000 for San Francisco based hires.
• Estimated annual salary of $147,000 - $202,000 for Seattle based hires.
• Estimated annual salary of $134,000 - $184,000 for Denver based hires.

Benefits

• 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.