Toast is driven by building the all-in-one restaurant platform that helps restaurants operate their business, increase sales, engage guests, and keep employees happy.
The Finance, Strategy & Analytics team is responsible for providing data-driven insights to inform strategic, financial, and operational decision-making across the company. We’re seeking a Finance, Strategy & Analytics Associate to work with the Financial Technology leadership team, generating insights for business planning and strategic projects. This role offers exposure to senior leadership and the chance to enhance shareholder value in a fast-growing environment.
Ideal candidates have a history of delivering results, taking ownership, and strong business judgment, with skills in problem solving, recommendation delivery and attention to detail.
About this roll* (Responsibilities)
- Be a thought partner to business stakeholders and drive strategic decision making in a fast paced environment
- Define and build financial forecasts, dashboards and metrics that track business performance
- Support the budgeting and forecasting for Toast’s P&L
- Analyze variances between actuals and forecast and use insights to iterate on forecasts and build/discuss potential action plans with cross-functional customers
- Build sophisticated financial models and synthesize outputs into concise presentations to drive executive decision making processes
- Use SQL and BI tools to automate reporting and generate insights that will allow business leaders to quickly and accurately see how our business is performing
- 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
- Communicate clearly, knowledgeably and transparently with cross-functional stakeholders to build trusted relationships and enhance business outcomes
- Proactively and reactively develop and address business questions through investigation/data forensics
- Continuously look at opportunities to optimize processes and models used, to provide more timely and relevant insights across our business
Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)
- Bachelor's degree
- 2+ years of strategic finance, investment banking, business intelligence and/or data analytics experience
- Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills. Ability to build robust financial models used by teams throughout the company to size opportunities and build business cases for pursuing new initiatives
- Experience with data visualization
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills amongst a range of audiences
- Positive attitude, high attention to detail, collaborative, and comfort in working in a matrix organization
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth, and evolving environment
- Effective project management skills; highly organized, independent, and self-motivated
Special Sauce* (Nice to Haves)
- Proficient in SQL or experience with BI tools
- Background building interactive dashboards in a tool such as Hex, Looker, Tableau, Domo, SiSense, etc
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.
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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].
