Product Cost Analyst — AI-Driven Economics & Equity

Cloudflare, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 126,000 - 174,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Flexible Spending Accounts

Commuter Benefits

Equity Plan

401(k) Retirement Plan

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Cloudflare, Inc. is seeking a Financial Analyst to join the R&D Finance team in San Francisco, CA.

You will translate product resource usage into actionable cost insights, partnering with Product, Engineering and Infrastructure Finance to shape unit economics and pricing decisions. The role involves building cost models, automating analyses, and contributing to capital and capacity planning while delivering clear, decision-ready reports to stakeholders across technical and non-technical

Qualifications

• 5+ years in FP&A, strategic finance or cost analysis with strong modeling experience.
• Advanced Excel/Google Sheets with driver-based models.
• Ability to work with large datasets, reconcile views and document controls.
• Understanding of financial statements, cost drivers and unit economics.
• Learn technical business models and connect resource usage to financial outcomes.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and clear communication.
• AI skills development and evaluating new tools for finance problems.
• Finance degree or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain product cost models for unit cost-to-serve.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to evaluate new product introductions and shifts in resource usage.
• Develop and validate shared-cost allocations with Infrastructure Finance.
• Support Pricing with reliable cost inputs and scenario analyses.
• Analyze server costs, deployment timing and depreciation with Infrastructure Finance.
• Contribute to capital and capacity planning with forecast updates.
• Produce decision-ready reporting on product costs and margin drivers.
• Automate recurring analyses to support more frequent forecasting and faster close.
• Translate analysis into actionable recommendations for technical and non-technical teams.

Skills

FP&A experience

Excel/Sheets

Data reconciliation

Financial statements

Cross-functional collab

AI prompt engineering

Finance degree

Education

Bachelor's in Finance/Accounting/Economics

Tools

SQL

BI tools

Python

Job description

Cloudflare, Inc. is seeking a Financial Analyst to join the R&D Finance team in San Francisco, CA.

You will translate product resource usage into actionable cost insights, partnering with Product, Engineering and Infrastructure Finance to shape unit economics and pricing decisions. The role involves building cost models, automating analyses, and contributing to capital and capacity planning while delivering clear, decision-ready reports to stakeholders across technical and non-technical