Associate, Strategic Finance & Investor Relations
Hybrid · San Francisco · USD 117,000-161,000 / year · 3-5 years experience · Posted Oct 19, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 3-5 years experience
- Location
- Hybrid · San Francisco
- Salary
- USD 117,000-161,000 / year
About Cloudflare
- 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.
- At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.
- Available Locations:
- - San Francisco, CA
About the role
- Cloudflare is looking for an Associate, Investor Relations & Strategic Finance to join a lean IR team and help power engagement with Wall Street.
- The role involves contributing to the quarterly earnings cycle, consensus and financial modeling, investor events, and strategic finance projects for senior leadership.
Responsibilities
- Support the end-to-end quarterly earnings process, helping draft and assemble the press release, supplemental financial information, prepared remarks, Q&A prep, and investor deck.
- Build and maintain our consensus model: collect and analyze sell-side estimates and models, and benchmark them against internal forecasts.
- Support the guidance process, including share count forecasting, sensitivity analyses, and supporting materials for leadership.
- Drive tie-out and validation work so that every figure, claim, and disclosure across the press release, supplemental, scripts, Q&A, deck, 10-Q, and 10-K is accurate and consistent.
- Help prepare for earnings Q&A: anticipated questions, peer transcript research, key stats and proof points, and live-call backup material.
- Coordinate the post-earnings analyst callback program, including scheduling, notes, and feedback summaries.
- Support day-to-day engagement with sell-side analysts and institutional investors, including responding to inbound requests and maintaining our investor database.
- Help plan and run investor events, including sell-side conferences, one-on-ones, on-site investor visits, and non-deal roadshows.
- Prepare briefing materials for the CEO, CFO, and other executives ahead of investor meetings, including investor profiles, talking points, and Q&A prep.
- Contribute to strategic finance projects such as peer benchmarking, competitive analyses, long-range financial modeling, and ad-hoc analyses for senior leadership.
Requirements
- 3–5 years of experience in investment banking, equity research, investor relations, FP&A, corporate finance, or equity investing
- Strong financial modeling skills, including building and maintaining operating models, consensus models, and share count and dilution forecasts
- Solid understanding of financial statements, public-company reporting, and valuation
- Strong written communication skills, with the ability to draft clear, concise materials for senior executives and to turn complex financial or technical concepts into simple narratives
- Exceptional attention to detail, and pride in getting every number right
- An ownership mindset: you are organized, take initiative, and can manage multiple deadlines in a fast-paced environment, especially during earnings season
- High-trust collaboration, with the ability to work effectively with teams across Finance, Accounting, Legal, and Communications
- 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, including awareness of materiality, fair disclosure, and Reg FD (or a strong willingness to learn)
- Genuine interest in cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, or AI, and in the public markets
Preferred qualifications
- Exposure to public technology companies
- Familiarity with SaaS or consumption-based revenue models
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
- Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
Workplace
- Hybrid workplace model in San Francisco
Skills
- Financial Modeling
- Valuation
- Public-Company Reporting
- Financial Statements
- AI Tooling
