# Director, Strategic Finance & Investor Relations

**Company:** [Cloudflare](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/cloudflare)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Finance & Accounting
**Salary:** $190k – $275k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Investor Relations, Financial Modeling, Equity Research, Investment Banking, FP&A, Corporate Finance, Saas Revenue Models, Public Company Reporting, Valuation Methodologies, AI Tools, Consensus Management, Earnings Preparation
**Posted:** 2026-06-30

> Lead Cloudflare's quarterly earnings process, guidance development, investor communications, and long-term financial modeling as the operational and analytical engine for the Investor Relations team. Requires 10+ years in IR, equity research, or strategic finance at a high-growth public tech company, exceptional communication, advanced modeling skills, and AI fluency.

## Job Description

## What you’ll do

### Quarterly earnings and consensus management
- 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 — the cross-check pass that ensures every figure, claim, and disclosure across the press release, supplemental, scripts, Q&A, deck, 10-Q, and 10-K ties out and is internally and externally consistent.

### Investor engagement and external communications
- Serve as a primary point of contact for sell-side analysts and institutional investors; build and maintain strong, trust-based relationships with our covering analysts and shareholders.
- Articulate the Cloudflare investment narrative — our connectivity cloud strategy, the Workers and Developer Platform story, and our long-term financial model — in a way that is both compelling and credible.
- Plan and execute the calendar of investor events: sell-side conferences, one-on-ones, on-site investor visits, and our annual Investor Day.
- Prepare the CEO, CFO, and other senior executives for every investor interaction with tailored briefing materials, talking points, and Q&A prep.
- Develop and maintain core IR collateral: investor presentation, fact sheets, IR website content, and board-of-directors investor update materials.

### Investor Day and special projects
- Co-lead the planning and execution of our annual Investor Day — invite tracker and registration management, co-author all presentation content and prepared remarks across all presenters, own the supporting documentation, validation, day-of logistics, and post-event follow-through.
- Lead select strategic finance projects: peer benchmarking analyses, long-range financial modeling, competitive analyses, and ad-hoc executive-level financial analyses.

### Cross-functional partnership and analytics
- Be a trusted partner to Finance, Accounting, Legal, Communications, FP&A, and the executive team — the person who knows where every number comes from and what it means.
- Monitor and synthesize analyst coverage, peer performance, investor sentiment, market dynamics, and industry trends; provide actionable insights to the CFO, CEO, and Board of Directors.
- Build and maintain the internal analytical infrastructure that powers the function — the models, dashboards, trackers, and validation systems that let a small team operate at scale.
- Drive the IR function's use of AI-native tooling and automation, treating modern tools as a force multiplier on insight, productivity, accuracy, and stakeholder communications.

## Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience
- 10+ years of experience combining investor relations, equity research, investment banking, FP&A, corporate finance, or equity investing — ideally with meaningful time in-house at a high-growth public technology company.
- Deep technical fluency with public-company reporting, financial statements, capital markets, valuation methodologies, and SaaS / consumption-based revenue models. Comfort debating modeling assumptions and valuation mechanics.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills — including the ability to draft in the voice of senior executives, translate complex technical or financial concepts into clear narratives for non-technical audiences, and operate confidently in high-stakes external communications.
- Advanced financial modeling skills — fluency in building, maintaining, and stress-testing operating models, share-count and dilution forecasts, guidance sensitivity analyses, and consensus benchmarks.
- An ownership mindset — comfort owning a process end-to-end, driving operational structure in a fast-paced environment, and operating with the integrity and accuracy demanded by external disclosure.
- High-trust collaboration — the ability to build credibility quickly with senior internal stakeholders (CFO, CEO, Board, Legal, Accounting, FP&A) and external stakeholders (sell-side analysts, institutional investors).
- AI-native curiosity and skill — fluency with modern AI tooling and a track record of using it to amplify your impact.
- Sound judgment with confidential information — a clear understanding of materiality, fair disclosure, Reg FD, and the discretion required when working with pre-announcement financial data.
- Sector background in cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, or AI preferred — existing relationships with top-tier infrastructure / software sell-side analysts and institutional investors a plus.
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Business, or a related field; MBA, CFA, or CPA preferred.

## Compensation
**For Bay Area based hires:** Estimated annual salary of $200,000 - $275,000  
**For New York City based hires:** Estimated annual salary of $190,000 - $262,000

**Equity**  
This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.

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