# Product Cost Analyst

**Company**: Cloudflare
**Location**: Hybrid
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $126,000 - $174,000
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are looking for a Financial Analyst to join our R&D Finance team and help explain what it costs to build, deliver and scale Cloudflare’s products.

You will partner with Product, Engineering, Infrastructure Finance and Pricing to turn technical resource usage and infrastructure investment into clear product unit economics and actionable financial insights.

This is a hands-on individual contributor role for someone who enjoys moving between financial models, operational data and cross-functional problem solving.

**Responsibilities**

- Build and maintain product cost models that translate compute, storage, bandwidth and AI / inference resource consumption into unit cost-to-serve, with transparent assumptions and documented methodologies.

- Partner with Product and Engineering to evaluate new product introductions, architecture changes and shifts in resource usage; quantify cost and margin implications across connected workloads.

- Develop and validate shared-cost allocation analyses with Infrastructure Finance and finance data partners, using relevant consumption and capacity drivers.

- 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 assumptions, utilization and capacity across edge, core and accelerated-computing infrastructure.

- Contribute to capital and capacity planning through demand-versus-capacity scenarios, investment trade-offs and forecast updates.

- Produce decision-ready reporting on product costs, unit economics and relevant margin drivers.

- Improve finance data and repeatable workflows with finance programs, data and engineering partners.

**Requirements**

- 5+ Years experience in FP&A, strategic finance, cost analysis, business analytics or a related analytical field.

- Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills, including the ability to build flexible, driver-based models.

- Ability to work with large or imperfect datasets, investigate discrepancies and reconcile financial and operational views.

- Understanding of financial statements, cost drivers, gross margin and unit economics.

- Strong cross-functional collaboration and clear written and verbal communication.

- Evidence of ongoing AI skill development.

- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.

**Nice-to-Have Skills**

- Experience with cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, usage-based businesses, product costing or shared-cost allocations.

- Hands-on SQL skills and experience with business intelligence tools.

- Familiarity with infrastructure and/or data-center operations and the financial drivers of capacity expansion.

- Exposure to server or network capital planning, hardware lifecycle economics, utilization analysis or fixed-asset reporting.

- Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools into finance or analytical workflows.

- Experience applying responsible AI practices to financial analysis.

**Compensation**

- Estimated annual salary of $126,000 - $174,000 for San Francisco Bay Area based hires.

- Estimated annual salary of $121,000 - $166,000 for Seattle, WA based hires.

- Estimated annual salary of $110,000 - $151,000 for Colorado based hires.

**Benefits**

- 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.

## Skills

### Required
- financial modeling
- data analysis
- cross-functional collaboration
- AI skills
- financial statements

### Nice to have
- cloud infrastructure
- SQL
- business intelligence tools
- infrastructure operations
- AI integration

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