Strategic Finance Senior Associate

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 Research & Development (R&D) organization, the teams that design, build, and scale the technology behind Toast’s all-in-one restaurant platform, and to help drive R&D FP&A across the function. In this high-impact role, you’ll work closely with business leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver analytical insights, support business planning, and inform decision-making.

A day in the life (Responsibilities)

• Serve as a day-to-day finance partner to leaders and teams across the R&D organization, supporting investment, headcount, and resourcing decisions in a fast-paced environment.

• Build and maintain financial models across headcount, vendor and cloud spend, capitalized software, and program investment, and translate them into clear, actionable operational recommendations.

• Deliver monthly and quarterly quantitative and qualitative analysis of R&D financial results, including variances to plan, ensuring key issues, risks, and business drivers are understood and highlighted.

• Support the annual planning and long-range planning processes for R&D, incorporating an understanding of product and technology roadmaps, team structures, and scaling needs.

• Contribute to strategic initiatives through a combination of business partnering, analytical insight, and project management.

• Proactively identify trends and areas of opportunity, surfacing insights that influence cross-functional strategic and operational decisions.

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Department: G & A : Strategic Finance