Associate, Strategic Finance

Posted 10 Days Ago
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Junior
Cloud • Fintech • Food • Information Technology • Software • Hospitality
We empower the restaurant community to delight guests, do what they love, and thrive.
The Role
The Associate, Strategic Finance will support Toast's R&D Finance team by managing financial reporting, monthly and quarterly close processes, and executing budget variance analysis. This role involves collaboration with the R&D leadership and Finance teams to enhance reporting efficiency and drive strategic initiatives. Key responsibilities include overseeing vendor financial management, improving existing processes, and maintaining financial systems for accurate reporting and insights.
Summary Generated by Built In

Toast is driven by building a platform that helps restaurants adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best: building the businesses they love. Our Finance team serves as a trusted advisor to the company, guiding critical business decisions through insightful analyses & thought partnership with executive leaders. 

We are seeking an R&D Finance Associate to own key aspects of our financial reporting, monthly and quarterly processes, and support critical planning activities within our R&D Finance & Strategy team. In this role, you’ll contribute to the foundation of our finance operations as we advance as a public company, with a focus on enhancing efficiency through process improvements and automation. You’ll work closely with our R&D and Corporate Finance team, and collaborate across functions to deliver essential insights and drive strategic initiatives for our senior R&D leaders.  

About this roll* (Responsibilities) 

  • Support Toast’s monthly and quarterly financial close processes for the R&D function, including reporting and analysis of budget vs. actual results, forecast updates, and preparation of standard financial packages that provide actionable insights for R&D leadership.
  • Own headcount tracking, reporting, and reconciliation activities for R&D, conducting trend analysis and collaborating closely with Finance, R&D leadership, and Talent Acquisition to align resource planning with strategic priorities.
  • Oversee the financial management for the R&D vendor portfolio, including PO and invoice reconciliation, variance analysis, and trend reporting to ensure alignment with budget and financial goals.
  • Leverage Toast’s financial systems, tools, and datasets to build and maintain standard reports and analyses, identifying opportunities to improve insight depth and forecast accuracy, specifically tailored to R&D’s unique needs and objectives.
  • Assess and refine existing financial processes for R&D, implementing automation and standardization initiatives to reduce manual workload and create efficiencies across the finance team.
  • Partner closely with cross-functional teams, to research, analyze, and advise on financial processes and reporting that directly support R&D’s innovation, operational, and financial goals.
  • Able to work 2 pm - 11 pm IST

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)

  • 2+ years of work experience in Financial Planning & Analysis, investment banking, consulting, private equity, business operations or accounting
  • Strong analytical skills including financial modeling, data/trend analysis and manipulation of large datasets, with proven ability to summarize complex data into key takeaways
  • Highly proficient in advanced Excel/Google Sheets and PowerPoint/Google Slides
  • Experience working with financial systems, such as WorkDay, Adaptive, Greenhouse, NetSuite, or other similar products
  • Positive attitude with high aptitude to learn new things quickly. Team player eager to further develop and grow with us
  • Demonstrates intellectual curiosity, problem-solving skills, and hunger to continually up-level current approaches and processes
  • Strong ability to work in a collaborative, diverse, inclusive, and open-minded office environment with a desire to contribute to a thriving culture 


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/india-benefits


We are Toasters

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

At Toast our employees are our secret ingredient. When they are powered to succeed, Toast succeeds.

The restaurant industry is one of the most diverse industries. We embrace and are excited by this diversity, believing that only through authenticity, inclusivity, high standards of respect and trust, and leading with humility will we be able to achieve our goals.

Baking inclusive principles into our company and diversity into our design provides equitable opportunities for all and enhances our ability to be first in class in all aspects of our industry.

Bready* to make a change? Apply today!

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 [email protected].

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HQ: Boston, MA
4,500 Employees
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Year Founded: 2011

What We Do

Toast is the all-in-one platform built for restaurants of all sizes. Toast provides a single platform of software as a service (SaaS) products and financial technology solutions that give restaurants everything they need to run their business, including point of sale, payments, supplier management, digital ordering and delivery, marketing and loyalty, and team management. By serving as the restaurant operating system across dine-in, takeout, and delivery channels, Toast helps restaurants increase revenue, streamline operations and deliver amazing guest experiences.

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Our recipe for an awesome workplace:

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A heavy spoonful of individuality

Mix these ingredients in a fast-paced and hardworking environment. Best paired with a side of interesting people who always bring their whole selves to work.

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