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Senior Associate, Strategic Finance
About this role
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. 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 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.