Senior Associate, Strategic Finance
San Francisco · Remote · USD 117,000-187,000 · 5+ years experience · Posted Sep 24, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 5+ years experience
- Location
- San Francisco · Remote
- Salary
- USD 117,000-187,000 · Base salary
About the role
- The Strategic Finance team is responsible for providing data-driven insights to inform strategic, financial, and operational decision-making across the company.
- The Strategic Finance Senior Associate supports the General & Administrative (G&A) organization, partnering directly with People, Legal, Finance, Real Estate, Recruiting, and Total Rewards teams.
- This high-impact role involves working closely with executive business leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver analytical insights, support long-term operational planning, and optimize corporate resource allocation.
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.
- Build strong relationships across all levels of the organization and develop a deep understanding of Toast’s business model, operating strategy, and the G&A functions that enable the company to scale.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field
- 5+ years of experience in Strategic Finance, FP&A, investment banking, consulting, or a similar analytical role
- Comfortable working cross-functionally, communicating complex financial information to non-finance audiences
- Strong Excel and financial modeling skills, with the ability to distill complex analyses into structured outputs used by teams throughout the company to size opportunities and build business cases for pursuing new initiatives
- Effective communication and project management skills; highly organized, independent, and self-motivated, with ability to present to all levels of management
- Ability to think creatively and critically, and thrive in a dynamic and often ambiguous work environment
Preferred qualifications
- Experience supporting G&A functions
- Public company Strategic Finance background
- SaaS industry experience a plus
- Working knowledge of Adaptive, NetSuite, and Zip
- Working knowledge of SQL or experience with BI tools
Benefits
- Cash compensation including overtime, bonus/commissions if eligible
- Equity
- Benefits program supporting a healthy lifestyle and flexibility
Workplace
- Embraces a hybrid work model that fosters in-person collaboration while valuing individual needs
Skills
- Excel
- Financial Modeling
- Project Management
- Scenario Modeling
- Adaptive
- NetSuite
- Zip
- SQL
- BI Tools
