Associate, Strategic Finance & Investor Relations - Cloudflare
Austin, TX
About the Job
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.
We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us!
Available Locations: Austin, TX , San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
What You'll Do
The Strategic Finance & Investor Relations Associate will play an important role in helping Cloudflare achieve and exceed its growth and profitability goals. You will work with many facets of the business to provide visibility on all things financial to key stakeholders, performing important analyses, surfacing new insights, and influencing the strategic direction of the company. The ideal candidate is highly analytical, able to communicate financial insights, and recommend appropriate actions. Typical responsibilities include:
- Perform financial, strategic, and competitive analyses, including industry and peer benchmarking, market/valuation trends, financial and unit economic modeling and ad-hoc projects to support strategic and financial initiatives
- Support quarterly earnings process and annual Investor Day, including preparation of earnings press releases, prepared remarks, financial outlook, Q&A prep materials, various financial analyses, and accompanying investor and board presentations
- Build models and leverage data analysis to develop a robust understanding of key metrics and drivers, understand complex relationships, identify and synthesize key trends
- Review and analyze sell-side analyst research and models, consensus estimates, analyst and investor perceptions/opinions and market-related trends impacting valuation and market perception
- Maintain corporate long-term financial model and develop forecasting models to help the company manage long-term growth and opportunity
- Support the collection and analysis of investor ownership, shareholder movements, and investor targeting along with content management of the investor relations website
- Partner closely with FP&A, Accounting, Business Intelligence, Legal, Sales Ops, Marketing, Special Projects, and Communications, to understand drivers, trends, opportunities, and to share insights and recommendations
- This is an individual contributor role reporting to the Director of Strategic Finance & Investor Relations
Examples Of Desirable Skills, Knowledge And Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, or other relevant field
- 5+ years of relevant experience, preferably in equity research, investment banking, at a buy-side investment firm, and/or a strategic finance / investor relations role at a public software/technology company
- Sophisticated financial and analytical skills with ability to interpret information and financial concepts for executive management, board of directors, and the investment community
- Strong business acumen with understanding of technology and software business models, with desire and capacity to learn about our industry, products, competitors and other key audiences
- Excellent proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, Google Sheets, and Google Slides; experience with financial research tools such as FactSet is a plus
- Strong intellectual curiosity and high attention to detail with the ability to keep the big picture in mind
- Highly-motivated, energetic, and resourceful team player who is results-oriented and able to multitask and thrive in a fast-paced, high growth environment
- Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills
Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
- For Colorado-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $112,000 - $136,000
- For New York City, Washington, and California (excluding Bay Area) based hires: Estimated annual salary of $ 125,000- $153,000
- For Bay Area-based hires: Estimated annual salary of $131,000 - $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
What Makes Cloudflare Special?
We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.
Project Galileo: We equip politically and artistically important organizations and journalists with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.
Athenian Project: We created Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration.
1.1.1.1: We released1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.
Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!
This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.
Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actualrace, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law. We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer.
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