Toast is hiring a
Senior Associate

Summary

Join our team as a Senior Finance Associate and contribute to delivering actionable financial insights that support strategic decision-making within the Go-To-Market function. This role offers significant exposure to senior sales and finance leadership, with the opportunity to directly impact the company's financial performance in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required
• 4+ years of experience in strategic finance, investment banking, business intelligence, or data analytics
• Strong project management abilities, demonstrating organizational skills, independence, and a proven ability to drive initiatives with minimal oversight
• Detail-oriented with a positive attitude, showing strong collaboration skills and the ability to excel in a matrixed organization
• Data-driven mindset with advanced analytical and modeling skills, eager to dive into data to support evidence-based decision-making and strategic discussions
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of engaging effectively with diverse audiences
• Adaptable in a fast-paced, high-growth environment, demonstrating the ability to thrive amid change and evolution

Responsibilities

• Develop advanced driver-based financial models to support projects, enabling data-driven decision-making on business investments and strategic resource allocation in real time
• Collaborate with business partners to gather data and produce financial projections and forecasts, ensuring alignment with core business fundamentals
• Deliver clear, actionable insights: Synthesize complex data into concise, impactful presentations for GTM leadership, providing valuable guidance for business decision-making
• Transform data into strategic insights: Leverage tools such as Hex, Excel, Python, R, Snowflake/SQL, and more to convert intricate data sets into meaningful, actionable insights
• Develop high-impact reporting: Create and maintain queries, views, reports, and user-friendly dashboards that empower business leaders to take informed action
• Support GTM Finance with advanced analytics: Utilize Toast’s vast data resources to provide critical analytical support across the broader GTM Finance organization
• Analyze performance and drive improvement: Examine variances between actuals, forecasts, and plans, using insights to refine forecasts and collaborate with cross-functional teams on action plans
• Optimize processes for enhanced efficiency: Continuously seek opportunities to improve processes and models, ensuring the delivery of timely and relevant insights to key stakeholders at Toast
• Identify key issues and develop hypotheses to guide in-depth analysis, translating complex data into actionable insights and strategic recommendations for key decision-makers and the executive team

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficient in SQL with hands-on experience using business intelligence (BI) tools
• Experience building interactive dashboards in tools such as Hex, Looker, Tableau, Domo, SiSense, or similar platforms
• Advanced Excel/Google Sheets financial modeling skills, with the ability to create detailed and dynamic models for forecasting, budgeting, and analysis