Senior Associate, Strategic Finance

<p>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.</p> <p>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 &amp; Administrative (G&amp;A) organization, partnering directly with our People, Legal, Finance, Real Estate, Recruiting, and Total Rewards teams, and to help drive corporate G&amp;A FP&amp;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.<br><br></p> <p><strong>A day in the life (Responsibilities)&nbsp;</strong></p> <ul> <li>Serve as a day-to-day <strong>finance partner</strong> to leaders across the G&amp;A organization, supporting investment, headcount, resource allocation, and other strategic and operational decisions.</li> <li><strong>Build and maintain financial models</strong> across headcount, compensation, benefits, real estate, vendors, and strategic programs, translating complex data into clear insights and recommendations.</li> <li>Partner on <strong>workforce and organizational planning</strong>, including hiring, compensation, benefits, and other people-related investments, helping leaders understand both financial implications and longer-term tradeoffs.</li> <li>Deliver <strong>monthly and quarterly analysis of G&amp;A financial performance</strong>, including variances to plan and evolving trends, ensuring key business drivers, risks, and opportunities are clearly understood.</li> <li>Support <strong>annual planning, forecasting, and long-range planning across G&amp;A</strong>, connecting financial plans to organizational priorities, operating needs, and Toast’s broader growth strategy.</li> <li>Contribute to strategic initiatives through a combination of <strong>business partnership, financial analysis, scenario modeling, and project management</strong>.</li> <li>Proactively identify trends and opportunities across the G&amp;A cost base, surfacing insights that improve resource allocation and influence cross-functional strategic and operational decisions.</li> <li>Build strong relationships across all levels of the organization and develop a deep understanding of Toast’s business model, operating strategy, and the G&amp;A functions that enable the company to scale.</li> </ul> <p><strong>What you'll need to thrive (