# Associate of R&D Strategic Finance (FP&A)

**Company**: Toast
**Location**: Chennai
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Toast creates technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world, helping business owners operate, increase sales, engage customers, and keep employees happy.

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.

**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

**Requirements**

- 4+ years of work experience in FP&A, 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

## Skills

### Required
- financial modeling
- data analysis
- Excel
- Google Sheets
- PowerPoint
- Google Slides
- WorkDay
- Adaptive
- Greenhouse
- NetSuite

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