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. We are seeking a Senior Associate to partner with our International team to achieve their business goals, drive efficient growth, and take on high-profile strategic projects. This is a high-impact role supporting our fast-growing international expansion that will offer exposure to senior leadership and the opportunity to drive long-term shareholder value.

A day in the life (Responsibilities)

• Be a finance business partner to the International team, supporting Toast’s commercial expansion outside the U.S.


• Collaborate with business partners to gather data and produce comprehensive financial projections and forecasts across each non-U.S. market, ensuring alignment with business goals


• Deliver monthly/quarterly reporting and analysis for International financials and KPIs, ensuring key issues, risks, and business drivers are understood and highlighted


• Develop a deep understanding of Toast’s business model for international commercial expansion, including unit economics, product and market strategies, and internal processes


• Assist in ad-hoc analyses and deep dives into strategic issues to improve decision making


• Communicate clearly, knowledgeably and transparently with cross functional stakeholders (including but not limited to Finance, Sales, Marketing, Onboarding) to build trusted relationships and enhance business outcomes


• Continuously examine opportunities to optimize processes and models to provide more timely and relevant insights across Toast

What you'll need to thrive (Requirements)

• Bachelor's degree


• 5+ years of experience in Strategic Finance, FP&A, investment banking, or equivalent field


• Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills


• Self-starter capable of independently navigating ambiguity


• Strong communication and interpersonal skills amongst a range of audiences


• Positive attitude, high attention to detail, and comfort working in a matrix organization


• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth and evolving environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge of SQL or experience with BI tools


• Working knowledge of Adaptive, Netsuite and Zip


• Experience working in a high growth SaaS company


• Public company Strategic Finance background; partnership with a Go-to-market organization

AI at Toast

At Toast, one of our company values is that we're 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; it’s a core part of our culture.

Our Total Rewards Philosophy

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 https://careers.toasttab.com/toast-benefits.