Senior Director, Revenue Accounting

Toast is driven by building the all-in-one platform that helps restaurants operate, grow, and delight their guests. As we continue to expand globally and evolve our platform, we are looking for experienced finance leaders who thrive in fast-paced environments and enjoy partnering across the business to solve complex problems.

Toast is seeking a Senior Director of Revenue Accounting to lead our global revenue accounting organization. Reporting to the CAO, this leader will be responsible for the integrity of Toast's revenue accounting, ensuring accurate financial reporting, strong internal controls, and compliance with U.S. GAAP and SEC reporting requirements.

This role is highly cross-functional and requires a leader who can translate complex accounting requirements into scalable business processes while partnering closely with Product, Engineering, Sales, Legal, FP&A, Internal Audit, and external auditors. The ideal candidate combines deep technical accounting expertise with operational leadership, exceptional communication skills, and the ability to influence across a rapidly evolving organization.

While this role sits within Finance, success requires a customer-first mindset. This leader understands that accounting decisions, business processes, and system design ultimately impact the experience of Toast's restaurant customers. They proactively partner across the organization to develop solutions that balance accounting integrity, operational scalability, and an exceptional customer experience.

This position owns revenue accounting globally, including period-end close, financial reporting, controls, and accounting support for new products and business initiatives.

A day in the life (Responsibilities)

• Lead the global Revenue Accounting organization, developing a high performing team that delivers accurate, timely, and scalable financial reporting.
• Own the accounting for all revenue streams, ensuring compliance with ASC 606 and other applicable accounting guidance.
• Direct the monthly, quarterly, and annual revenue close process, including account reconciliations, analytical reviews, and SEC reporting support.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Pricing, Legal, Sales, and Finance leaders to evaluate new products, pricing models, contracts, partnerships, and international expansion initiatives, ensuring accounting considerations are incorporated early in the development process.
• Serve as the company's subject matter expert on revenue recognition, providing technical guidance to executive leadership and business partners.
• Drive continuous improvement of revenue accounting processes, systems, automation, and internal controls to support a growing global business.
• Identify and leverage AI and emerging technologies to simplify workflows, automate manual activities, improve decision making, and enable the revenue accounting organization to operate more efficiently and at greater scale.
• Oversee revenue-related SOX controls and partner with Internal Audit and external auditors to support audits and compliance activities.
• Collaborate closely with FP&A and other finance teams on forecasting assumptions and other matters affecting revenue accounting.
• Lead the accounting integration of acquisitions, strategic partnerships, and new business models as applicable.
• Establish metrics and operational insights that improve the efficiency, quality, and scalability of the revenue accounting function.
• Build strong relationships across the organization, acting as a trusted advisor who balances technical accounting requirements with business objectives.

Leadership & Impact

Success in this role requires more than technical accounting excellence. The Senior Director of Revenue Accounting will:

• Build and inspire an inclusive, high performing global team.
• Influence without direct authority across multiple business functions.
• Anticipate business changes and proactively develop scalable accounting solutions.
• Communicate complex accounting concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Balance strong governance with a practical, business-oriented mindset.
• Champion continuous improvement through automation, AI, simplification, and operational excellence.
• Foster curiosity and experimentation by encouraging the team to adopt AI and other emerging technologies to improve productivity and effectiveness.
• Foster collaboration, accountability, and a culture of continuous learning.

What you'll need to thrive (Requirements)

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance; CPA required.
• Experience in revenue accounting under ASC 606.
• Public company experience with SEC reporting requirements.
• Experience leading large accounting organizations and developing high-performing teams through periods of significant growth and change.
• Strong knowledge of internal controls and SOX compliance.
• Demonstrated ability to partner effectively across Finance, Product, Engineering, Legal, Sales, and executive leadership.
• Experience managing complex accounting issues involving multiple products, contractual arrangements, and evolving business models.
• Demonstrated track record of driving process transformation through automation, data, and AI enabled solutions.
• Excellent executive communication, presentation, and influencing skills.
• Proven ability to lead through ambiguity, prioritize effectively, and execute in a fast paced environment.

AI at Toast

At Toast, one of our company values is that we're hungry to build and learn. We believe learning new AI tools empowers us to build for our customers faster, more independently, and with higher quality. We provide these tools across all disciplines, from Engineering and Product to Sales and Support, and are inspired by how our Toasters are already driving real value with them. The people who thrive here are those who embrace changes that let us build more for our customers; it’s a core part of our culture. 

Our Total Rewards Philosophy

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.