Statutory Manager

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.

At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.

Available Locations: Lisbon

The Statutory Manager acts as a strategic thought partner; overseeing reporting cycles, ensuring filing readiness and driving regulatory compliance for legal entities located in the Iberia region. This role requires an advanced professional who exercises independent judgment to solve unique, unprecedented accounting issues where guidelines do not exist.

The successful candidate will blend exceptional technical accounting mastery with strategic process ownership, championing automation and serving as a critical cross-functional collaborator to elevate controls and scale our global financial reporting architecture.

Role Responsibilities

• Advanced Financial Reporting: Review and formally sign off on monthly, quarterly, and annual financial including balance sheets, profit & loss statements, and cash flow reports

• Strategic Compliance & Audit Leadership: Act as the primary point of contact to lead external audits and resolve highly complex compliance issues that have little or no precedent to guide them. Formulate a long-term view of local regulatory trends and business implications.

• Cross-functional Stakeholder Coordination: Partner cross-functionally with global legal and corporate tax units and regional business units to ensure local country filings are executed flawlessly, on time and align with broader company objectives.

• Process & technology improvements: Drive strategic financial system optimization (Oracle/NetSuite) to scale statutory and compliance reporting architectures and actively pioneer the adoption of new automation and technology tools (including AI and advanced data analytics).

Role Requirements (Must-Have Skills)

Experience: 10+ years of progressive accounting and tax compliance experience.

Proven experience acting as a primary reviewer for audited statutory financial statements in a multinational corporate framework

Extensive progressive accounting and tax compliance experience, with a proven track record of managing highly complex processes, driving strategic initiatives, and navigating ambiguous, precedent-setting financial