Product Cost Analyst

The role

You will join the R&D Finance team to explain the costs of building, delivering, and scaling Cloudflare products. You will partner with Product, Engineering, Infrastructure Finance, and Pricing to turn resource usage and infrastructure investment into product unit economics and financial insights.

What you will do

• Build and maintain product cost models for compute, storage, bandwidth and AI resource consumption.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to evaluate new product introductions and architecture changes.
• Develop and validate shared-cost allocation analyses with Infrastructure Finance.
• Support Pricing with cost inputs and scenario analysis for commercial decisions.
• Connect capital investment to product economics by analyzing server costs and depreciation.
• Contribute to capital and capacity planning through demand-versus-capacity scenarios.
• Produce decision-ready reporting on product costs and unit economics.
• Improve finance data and repeatable workflows with automation and AI.
• Translate analysis into recommendations for technical and non-technical partners.

Required qualifications

• 5+ Years experience in FP&A, strategic finance, cost analysis, business analytics or a related analytical field.
• Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills.
• Ability to work with large or imperfect datasets.
• Understanding of financial statements, cost drivers, gross margin and unit economics.
• Familiarity with capital expenditures and depreciation.
• Ability to learn technical business models and connect resource usage to financial outcomes.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and clear written and verbal communication.
• Evidence of ongoing AI skill development, including prompt and context engineering.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• 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.
• Python or another analytical scripting language.
• Familiarity with infrastructure and/or data-center operations.
• Exposure to construction or build-out economics.
• 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.
• Experience improving financial systems, allocation processes, data pipelines or forecasting workflows in a matrixed organization.
• Familiarity with planning and enterprise systems such as Anaplan, Oracle or Workday.

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
• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life & Accident Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Participation Plan

Before you apply

• Applicants who progress to the offer stage may be asked to attend an in-person interview.
• Offer of employment may be conditioned on authorization to receive software or technology controlled under U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.

About the company

Cloudflare runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties. The company protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code.