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Senior Associate, Strategic Finance (Hardware)

ToastSan Francisco, California, United StatesOnsite

Toast is driven by building the restaurant platform that helps restaurants adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best: building the businesses they love.
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 Sr Associate of Strategic Finance to partner with our Hardware leadership team to drive initiatives including business planning, corporate strategy, and strategic projects. This is a high-impact role that will offer substantial senior leadership exposure and the opportunity to drive long-term shareholder value in a hyper-growth environment at scale.

About this roll* 


(Responsibilities) 

  • Be a thought partner to the Hardware organization and drive strategic decision making in a fast paced constantly changing environment
  • Influence decisions by understanding the big picture combined with providing underlying deep financial analysis
  • Define and build financial forecasts, dashboards and metrics that track business performance
  • Support the budgeting and forecasting for the hardware business 
  • Analyze variances between actuals, forecast, and plan - use insights to iterate on forecasts and build/discuss potential action plans with cross-functional customers
  • Assist in any ad-hoc analyses and deep dives into strategic issues to improve the collective understanding of risks and opportunities related to the business
  • Build sophisticated financial models and synthesize outputs into concise presentations to drive executive decision making processes
  • Continuously look at opportunities to optimize processes and models used, to provide more timely and relevant insights across our margin landscape

Do you have the right ingredients*?


(Requirements)

  • Bachelor's degree
  • 4+ years of strategic finance, operational finance, FP&A, or investment banking experience at a high-growth tech company
  • Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills with the ability to build robust models used by teams across the company for opportunity sizing and business case development
  • Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills 
  • Demonstrated positive attitude, high attention to detail, collaborative skills and ability to thrive in a matrix organizational structure
  • Proven ability to adapt and excel in fast-paced, high-growth, and dynamic environments
  • Effective project management skills; highly organized, independent, and self-motivated

Special Sauce*


(Nice to Haves)

  • Proficient in SQL
  • Working knowledge of Adaptive 

*We love a good bread/food pun!

Our Spread* of Total Rewards


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.The base salary range for this role is listed below. The starting salary will be determined based on skills and experience.

In addition to base salary, our total rewards components include cash compensation (overtime, bonus/commissions, if eligible), benefits, and equity (if eligible).Pay Range$102,000—$163,000 USD

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is Baked into our Recipe for Success


At Toast, our employees are our secret ingredient—when they thrive, we thrive. The restaurant industry is one of the most diverse, and we embrace that diversity with authenticity, inclusivity, respect, and humility. By embedding these principles into our culture and design, we create equitable opportunities for all and raise the bar in delivering exceptional experiences.

We Thrive Together


We embrace a hybrid work model that fosters in-person collaboration while valuing individual needs. Our goal is to build a strong culture of connection as we work together to empower the restaurant community. To learn more about how we work globally and regionally, check out: https://careers.toasttab.com/locations-toast.

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Toast is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive hiring process. As part of this commitment, we strive to provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities to enable them to access the hiring process. If you need an accommodation to access the job application or interview process, please contact candidateaccommodations@toasttab.com.------For roles in the United States, It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment.

An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

Life at Toast

Toast is an all-in-one point-of-sale and restaurant management platform. As a cloud-based system built specifically for restaurants, Toast offers advanced functionality including tableside ordering, quick menu modifications, real-time enterprise reporting, online ordering, and labor management on an easy-to-use interface. Want to be a Toaster Join us! We move fast, work hard, have fun, and care deeply about our customers success. http://pos.toasttab.com/careers
Thrive Here & What We Value1. Commitment to Creating an Accessible and Inclusive Hiring Process2. Providing Reasonable Accommodations for Persons with Disabilities3. Enhancing Equitable Opportunities for All4. Baking Inclusive Principles into Our Company and Design5. Providing Competitive Compensation and Benefits Programs6. Embracing Diversity and Inclusion7. Focusing on Employee Development and Professional Growth8. Belief in Authenticity, Inclusivity, High Standards of Respect and Trust9. Emphasis on Baking Inclusive Principles into Company Culture1e Equitable Opportunities for All Employees12 Risk Assessment and Mitigation Plan Development13 Regulatory Change Monitoring and Awareness14 Subject Matter Expertise on International Laws and Regulations15 Uncapped Commissions for Eligible Roles16 Focusing on Operational Excellence17 Emphasis on Analytical Prowess
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