Product Cost & Economics Analyst

Cloudflare; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 110,000 - 151,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Rx Insurance

Dental Insurance

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Employee Stock Participation Plan

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a Financial Analyst to join the R&D Finance team to illuminate the true costs of building, delivering, and scaling Cloudflare’s products. You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, Infrastructure Finance and Pricing to convert resource usage into clear unit economics and actionable insights.

This hands-on role blends financial modeling with operational data and cross-functional problem solving, with opportunities to expand ownership of Developer and self-serve product

Qualifications

• 5+ years in FP&A, strategic finance, cost analysis, or related analytical field with proven financial modeling experience.
• Advanced Excel or Google Sheets with driver-based models and scenario analysis.
• Ability to work with large datasets, reconcile financial/operational views, document assumptions and controls.
• Understanding of financial statements, cost drivers, gross margin, and unit economics; knowledge of capex and depreciation.
• Able to learn technical business models and connect resource usage, infrastructure capacity, and product architecture to financial outcomes.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and clear written/verbal communication; able to explain analyses to diverse audiences.
• Evidence of ongoing AI skill development and ability to evaluate tools for finance problems.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or related quantitative field, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain product cost models translating compute, storage, bandwidth, and AI resource use into unit cost to serve with transparent assumptions.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to evaluate new product introductions and shifts in resource usage; quantify cost and margin implications.
• Develop and validate shared-cost allocation analyses with Infrastructure Finance and finance data partners; reconcile product views to financial totals.
• Support Pricing with reliable cost inputs and scenario analysis for commercial decisions and quoting workflows.
• Connect capital investment to product economics by analyzing server costs, deployment timing, useful life, and depreciation across edge to cloud infrastructure.
• Contribute to capital and capacity planning with demand-versus-capacity scenarios and investment trade-offs.
• Produce decision-ready reporting on product costs, unit economics, and margin drivers; explain variances.
• Improve finance data and repeatable workflows with finance programs and data engineering partners; automate recurring analyses for faster close.
• Translate analysis into actionable recommendations for technical and non-technical partners.

Skills

FP&A

Cost analysis

Advanced Excel

Data analysis

Cross-functional collab

AI skills development

Financial modeling

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance or related field

Tools

SQL

BI tools

Python

Job description

Cloudflare is seeking a Financial Analyst to join the R&D Finance team to illuminate the true costs of building, delivering, and scaling Cloudflare’s products. You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, Infrastructure Finance and Pricing to convert resource usage into clear unit economics and actionable insights.

This hands-on role blends financial modeling with operational data and cross-functional problem solving, with opportunities to expand ownership of Developer and self-serve product