Principal Finance Partner, Revenue & Strategic Modeling

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.

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.

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.
• 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.