Senior Manager, SEC Reporting

Driven Brands Inc.•Charlotte, NC

About The Position

Driven Brands is seeking a Senior Manager, SEC Reporting to lead the Company’s SEC reporting activities and help build a best-in-class public-company reporting function. Reporting to the Director, Financial Reporting, who oversees both SEC and non-SEC reporting, this hands-on leader will manage two Senior Accountants and be accountable for the accurate, complete, timely, and well-controlled preparation of SEC filings and related public-company reporting deliverables. The role requires meaningful public-company SEC reporting experience, strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and SEC rules, disciplined project management, and the ability to develop people and processes in an environment focused on remediating material weaknesses and significant deficiencies. The Senior Manager will strengthen reporting controls, documentation, review precision, disclosure governance, and cross-functional coordination while developing the technical and execution capabilities of the team.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or a related field and active CPA license.
8 to 10+ years of progressive accounting and financial reporting experience, including substantial hands-on SEC reporting experience at a public company.
Demonstrated experience preparing, reviewing, and filing Forms 10-K, 10-Q, and 8-K, financial statements, footnotes, disclosure checklists, tie-outs, and supporting documentation.
Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP, SEC reporting requirements, disclosure controls, and SOX/ICFR expectations.
Experience supporting material weakness or significant deficiency remediation, a financial statement restatement, or another control-challenged or transformation environment.
Prior people leadership and demonstrated ability to coach, develop, and elevate the skills of accounting professionals.
Strong project management, organizational, analytical, written, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills; ability to manage multiple deadlines without sacrificing quality.

Nice To Haves

Big Four or other national public accounting experience.
Experience with Workiva or a comparable SEC reporting platform, XBRL processes, and reporting workflow automation.
Experience in a complex, multi-entity, multi-location, international, or franchise-based organization.
Experience building or materially improving SEC reporting processes, controls, templates, and team capabilities.

Responsibilities

Lead the preparation, review, and filing of Forms 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, and other SEC filings, coordinating drafting, supporting schedules, tie-outs, XBRL activities, reviews, and filing readiness.
Own the SEC reporting calendar and drive clear milestones, responsibilities, dependencies, review cycles, escalation protocols, and final deliverables across Accounting, Legal, Tax, Treasury, FP&A, Investor Relations, and other stakeholders.
Prepare and review financial statements, footnotes, management reporting inputs, disclosure checklists, and supporting documentation for accuracy, completeness, consistency, and compliance with U.S. GAAP and SEC requirements.
Monitor SEC rules, interpretive guidance, filing trends, and peer disclosures; assess implications and recommend enhancements to the Company’s reporting and disclosure practices.
Coordinate with external auditors, legal counsel, XBRL providers, and other advisors while maintaining clear internal ownership and accountability for deliverables.
Partner with the Director, Financial Reporting to align SEC and non-SEC reporting processes, accounting conclusions, disclosures, and source data.
Lead execution of remediation activities affecting SEC reporting and disclosure controls, including improvements to process ownership, review precision, evidence retention, information flow, and filing governance.
Partner with the second line SOX function, Internal Audit, external auditors, and process owners to ensure reporting controls are appropriately designed, documented, implemented, and ready for validation and independent testing.
Develop and maintain reporting policies, procedures, process flows, RACIs, control documentation, disclosure checklists, review protocols, and evidence standards.
Perform root-cause analysis when reporting, disclosure, documentation, or control issues arise and implement sustainable corrective actions rather than temporary workarounds.
Create transparent issue tracking and escalation processes for late inputs, unresolved comments, disclosure judgments, control exceptions, and audit requests.
Lead, coach, develop, and manage two Senior Accountants, establishing clear roles, performance expectations, development plans, review standards, and accountability.
Develop the team’s capabilities in SEC rules, U.S. GAAP presentation and disclosure, financial statement preparation, tie-outs, XBRL, audit evidence, project management, and review discipline.
Build a collaborative, high-performing culture grounded in ownership, responsiveness, technical rigor, attention to detail, constructive challenge, and continuous improvement.
Delegate effectively while maintaining appropriate review depth and accountability for the quality, timeliness, and filing readiness of team deliverables.
Create cross-training, documented procedures, and knowledge repositories to improve resilience, reduce key-person dependency, and support succession and continuity.
Redesign and standardize the end-to-end SEC reporting process, including data collection, drafting, workflow, review, tie-outs, XBRL, approvals, retention, and post-filing improvement reviews.
Use reporting technology, workflow, document management, analytics, artificial intelligence, and automation to improve version control, data integrity, review transparency, efficiency, and auditability with appropriate governance.
Establish KPIs and dashboards for reporting milestones, late inputs, comment clearance, audit requests, control execution, rework, and process improvement benefits.
Partner with Technical Accounting to ensure complex accounting conclusions are appropriately reflected in financial statement presentation and disclosures.
Communicate reporting risks, open decisions, timeline concerns, and required actions clearly to the Director, Financial Reporting and other senior stakeholders.