Sr. Director, Corporate Accounting

Company:Driven Brands

Driven Brands is North America's largest automotive services company with a portfolio of iconic brands including Take 5 Oil Change®, Meineke Car Care Centers®, Maaco®, 1-800-Radiator & A/C®, Auto Glass Now®, and CARSTAR®. Our vision is to fuel the pursuit with the simplest, most convenient, and most reliable car care experience.

Headquartered in Charlotte, NC, Driven Brands is more than a workplace. We're a launchpad — for careers, for dreams, and for people driven to do great things.

Every day, we fuel the pursuit — for our customers chasing life's moments, for our franchisees building lasting legacies, and for each other as we grow, lead, and succeed together.

Performance matters. We take pride in it. We own it. We show up for one another and for our communities.

Because at Driven Brands, we're not just fixing cars. We're building futures, unlocking potential, and fueling what's possible — together.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Reporting to the Vice President - Corporate Controller, this position is responsible for leading and overseeing the respective accounting teams that perform corporate accounting (including debt, insurance, Ad funds, legal and corporate support functions), and long-lived asset accounting (including both fixed assets and leases).

This position requires a desire to work in a fast-paced organization while initiating and actioning process improvements and driving a fun and inclusive culture that embraces hard work and critical thinking. The successful candidate will instill best practices to improve technical accounting and SOX control application while utilizing technology to advance accuracy and efficiencies in processes (KPI creation, Close acceleration, reconciliation automation). This role will perform and improve SOX control documentation, work with internal and external auditors, and support the generation of certain standalone financial statements in partnership with Financial Reporting. This role will have visibility to and opportunity to collaborate with many executive team members, as well as Tax, AP, AR, Treasury, FP&A, and Financial Reporting, Consolidations, and Accounting Systems teams to advance the direction of the accounting functions of the organization.

How you will Own It:

• Lead and inspire a multi-location group of accounting professionals
• Improve the overall accuracy and timeliness of accounting processes for all areas of responsibility, including leading downstream through improvements in the preparation and review of: journal entries, account reconciliations, variance analyses, and support utilized in financial reporting activities, tax accounting activities, and support for internal/external auditors
• Remediate and work to actively prevent control deficiencies through improving requisite public company disciplines with other teams and departments in the end-to-end processes under responsibility
• Prepare and manage certain monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting inputs, including government reporting processes
• Serve as a critical stakeholder for numerous audits performed in areas of responsibility
• Build foundational processes (including policies) that leverage best-in-class tools and technology available, while driving continuous process improvements to ensure all information is timely and accurate
• While partnering with FP&A, demonstrate deep understanding of areas of responsibility to drive rapid improvement and ability to provide ad hoc reporting to management, tax, and financial reporting as needed
• Partner with upstream process stakeholders and FP&A to ensure that all financial information is delivered in accordance with timelines for analytical needs
• Special projects as assigned
   

What you’ll Bring:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The qualifications listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. An equivalent combination of experience and training may substitute for any of the listed position qualifications. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

COMPETENCIES are classified as the work habits, attitudes, personal characteristics, and behaviors that reflect how a person accomplishes the duties and responsibilities of their job.

Process Management Efficient at figuring out the processes necessary to get things done; knows how to organize people and activities; understands how to separate and combine tasks into efficient workflow; knows what to measure and how to measure it; can see opportunities for synergy and integration where others cannot; can simplify complex processes; gets more out of fewer resources.

Leading Change Ensures that energy and resources are sustained over the long-term of the change. Leverages technology, processes, or systems to enhance organizational learning and change. Clearly defines the expectations and how they will change for internal and external stakeholders. Manages any resistance to change within teams. Monitors the team’s successes and failures and shows a willingness to course correct whenever necessary.

Bias for Action Favors action over inaction and is not comfortable maintaining the status quo; acts decisively with a strong sense of ownership and accountability following advance alignment of stakeholder needs.

Drive for Results Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.

Presentation Skills Is effective in a variety of formal presentation settings: one-on-one, small and large groups, with peers, direct reports, and bosses; is effective both inside and outside the organization, on both cool data and hot and controversial topics; commands attention and can manage group process during the presentation; can change tactics midstream when something is not working

Business Acumen Knows how businesses work; knowledgeable in current and possible future policies, practices, trends, technology, and information affecting their business and organization; knows the competition; is aware of how strategies and tactics work in the marketplace.

Decision Quality Makes good decisions (without considering how much time it takes) based upon a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgment; most of their solutions and suggestions turn out to be correct and accurate when judged over time; sought out by others for advice and solutions.

You’re Good-to-Go if you have:

• Strong U.S. GAAP and SOX working knowledge
• Historical success with managing and improving teams that demonstrate end-to-end process knowledge, and managing and streamlining work performed in a multi-location organization
• Demonstrated ability to quickly establish trust and build relationships with all levels of professionals throughout the organization
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills
• Seeker and enabler of driving value-added process improvements (experience with process automation preferred)
• Strong systems experience including Microsoft Office and Oracle ERP and EPM tools
• Ideal candidate will be a highly motivated, self-directed, and independent thinker
• Bachelor’s degree required – Accounting and/or Finance; CPA required
• Multi-currency and international company experience preferred
• U.S. GAAP and Internal Controls/SOX required
• Experience with securitized debt and franchisees highly preferred
• Strong leadership, decision making and technical skills
• Public company experience required
• Public Accounting experience required
• 12+ years' experience required
• Ability to travel as needed, minimal travel anticipated
   

Applicants for our positions are considered without regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, religion, military or veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by law.

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