Principal Finance Partner, Revenue & Strategic Modeling

Available Locations: Austin, TX, San Francisco, CA, Denver, CO, Seattle, WA

About the Team

The Finance & BizOps team provides the financial insights and strategic guidance to shape Cloudflare's growth, profitability, and investment strategy. We're partners who embed across the business—connecting strategy to execution, driving planning and analysis, and collaborating with cross-functional leaders to develop and deliver key priorities. This team of passionate problem-solvers thrives in a fast-paced environment, designing and implementing high-quality, scalable solutions.

About the Role

We're looking for a seasoned, builder-minded revenue finance leader to own and advance our revenue model. In this high-visibility individual-contributor role, you'll be the engine behind how we forecast the topline—designing the methodology, running the planning cycles, and translating complex outputs into clear narratives for senior leadership. You'll partner closely with the Accounting, Business Operations, Anaplan, and broader FP&A teams.

We're looking for someone who instinctively automates—using AI and agentic tooling to replace manual work, tighten the loop between fresh data and the forecast, and improve accuracy every cycle—so you can focus on the strategic, high-impact analysis that drives decisions. In this role, you'll own the core logic, methodology, and forecast quality of our revenue model, and use that expertise to raise the bar on modeling across the organization.

What You'll Do

• Own the end-to-end revenue forecast—driving design, execution, and continuous improvement across monthly, quarterly, and annual planning cycles, including variance analysis, scenario planning, and executive reporting for all topline metrics.
• Build and maintain the connection between bookings, ARR, and recognized revenue, applying sound methodology to drivers, assumptions, and retention/churn dynamics.
• Architect robust, multi-scenario models that link operational drivers to the financial forecast—supporting long-range planning, investment prioritization, and executive "what-if" analysis.
• Continuously automate and scale the forecasting process—leveraging AI and agentic tooling to reduce manual effort, move toward real-time data, and improve accuracy every cycle.
• Partner with Revenue Accounting, FP&A, and Business Operations to ensure the model reflects the latest strategic context, business drivers, and operational realities.
• Deliver clear, actionable insights through executive reporting, variance commentary, board materials, and earnings preparation—distilling a complex, often-incomplete dataset into a crisp narrative.
• Support high-impact special projects and ad hoc analysis for senior leadership.

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

What We’re Looking For

• 10+ years of progressive experience in investment banking, private equity, FP&A, revenue finance, or a similar highly analytical role; high-growth, public-company SaaS experience preferred but not required.
• Deep revenue-modeling expertise: you've architected revenue forecast models from scratch and understand how bookings convert to recognized revenue, ideally across both subscription and usage-based models.
• A strong bias for automation: hands-on experience using AI tools (e.g., Windsurf/Devin, Cursor, OpenCode) to automate workflows, accelerate modeling, and analyze large datasets—and a genuine drive to push how far that can go.
• Systems-thinker: you think in terms of data, logic layers, and repeatable process—not just spreadsheets. Experience with financial planning systems (Anaplan a plus) and comfort with data structures.
• Expert proficiency in Excel and Google Sheets; experience with enterprise financial systems (e.g., NetSuite, Salesforce) is a plus.
• Intellectually curious and rigorous, with a first-principles problem-solving orientation. Not satisfied with easy or convenient answers.
• Strong executive presence: able to distill complex modeling outputs into simple, consumable, actionable takeaways for senior leaders and the board.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a quantitative field.

Why This Role?

• Own the model behind our topline revenue forecast.
• A real builder mandate: modernize and automate how we forecast, with room to push AI and agentic tooling.
• Direct collaboration with senior Finance, GTM, and Product leaders, plus exposure to board and earnings work.
• High visibility and impact in a mission-driven company helping build a better Internet.

Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

● For San Francisco Bay Area based hires: Estimated annual salary of $188,000 - $259,000.

● For Washington based hires: Estimated annual salary of $179,000 - $246,000.

● For Colorado based hires: Estimated annual salary of $163,000 - $204,000.

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