Senior Associate, Strategic Finance

Toast • San Francisco, CA

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

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. We’re 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 company. In this high-impact role, you’ll 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s 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

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

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 Toast’s 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 Toast’s business model, operating strategy, and the G&A functions that enable the company to scale.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits programs
• Great earnings potential
• Means to a healthy lifestyle with the flexibility to meet Toasters’ changing needs
• Cash compensation (overtime, bonus/commissions if eligible)
• Equity
• Benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior