Senior Associate, Strategic Finance

Toast creates technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world helping business owners operate increase sales engage customers and keep employees happy.

The Strategic Finance team is responsible for providing data-driven insights to inform strategic financial and operational decision-making across the company. Were seeking a Strategic Finance Senior Associate to support the General & Administrative (G&A) organization partnering directly with our People Legal Finance Real Estate Recruiting and Total Rewards teams and to help drive corporate G&A FP&A across the this high-impact role youll work closely with executive business leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver analytical insights support long-term operational planning and optimize our corporate resource allocation.

A day in the life (Responsibilities)

• Serve as a day-to-day finance partner to leaders across the G&A organization supporting investment headcount resource allocation and other strategic and operational decisions.
• Build and maintain financial models across headcount compensation benefits real estate vendors and strategic programs translating complex data into clear insights and recommendations.
• Partner on workforce and organizational planning including hiring compensation benefits and other people-related investments helping leaders understand both financial implications and longer-term tradeoffs.
• Deliver monthly and quarterly analysis of G&A financial performance including variances to plan and evolving trends ensuring key business drivers risks and opportunities are clearly understood.
• Support annual planning forecasting and long-range planning across G&A connecting financial plans to organizational priorities operating needs and Toasts broader growth strategy.
• Contribute to strategic initiatives through a combination of business partnership financial analysis scenario modeling and project management.
• Proactively identify trends and opportunities across the G&A cost base surfacing insights that improve resource allocation and influence cross-functional strategic and operational decisions.
• Build strong relationships across all levels of the organization and develop a deep understanding of Toasts business model operating strategy and the G&A functions that enable the company to scale.

What youll need to thrive (Requirements)

• Bachelors degree in Finance Accounting Economics or related field
• 5 years of experience in Strategic Finance FP&A investment banking consulting or a similar analytical role
• Comfortable working cross-functionally communicating complex financial information to non-finance audiences
• Strong Excel and financial modeling skills. Ability to distill complex analyses into structured outputs used by teams throughout the company to size opportunities and build business cases for pursuing new initiatives
• Effective communication and project management skills; highly organized independent and self-motivated with ability to present to all levels of management
• Ability to think creatively and critically and thrive in a dynamic and often ambiguous work environment

What will help you stand out (Nonessential Skills/Nice to Haves)

• Experience supporting G&A functions
• Public company Strategic Finance background
• SaaS industry experience a plus
• Working knowledge of Adaptive NetSuite and Zip
• Working knowledge of SQL or experience with BI tools

AI at Toast

At Toast were Hungry to Build and Learn. We believe learning new AI tools empowers us to build for our customers faster more independently and with higher quality. We provide these tools across all disciplines from Engineering and Product to Sales and Support and are inspired by how our Toasters are already driving real value with them. The people who thrive here are those who embrace changes that let us build more for our customers; its a core part of our culture.

Our Spread* of Total Rewards

We strive to provide competitive compensation and benefits programs that help to attract retain and motivate the best and brightest people in our industry. Our total rewards package goes beyond great earnings potential and provides the means to a healthy lifestyle with the flexibility to meet Toasters changing needs. Learn more about our benefits at base salary range for this role is listed below. The starting salary will be determined based on skills experience and geographic addition to base salary our total rewards components include cash compensation (overtime bonus/commissions if eligible) equity and benefits. You can learn more about how we align pay with local labor markets in our Geographic Pay Zone Philosophy.