Vice President, Corporate Controller

Driven Brands

4d • $213,000 - $380,400

About The Position

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 SVP, Chief Accounting Officer, this position will lead and manage all Controllership teams for the Record-to-Report organization at Driven Brands and drive the next stage of transformation in the accounting function, leading a multi-location team from our Charlotte headquarters. This position will oversee the General Accounting (including segment accounting) and Long-lived Asset Accounting teams for all North American operating and corporate segments. This role will also require overseeing all international accounting processes for our global operations, with most of the team located in western Europe. 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 for utilizing technology to improve accuracy and efficiency in processes (KPI creation, Close acceleration, reconciliation automation), SOX controls, internal and external audits, and certain stand-alone financials. This role requires driving scale to our accounting operations (documentation, processes, and systems) and will perform and lead implementing, documenting, and testing related controls. This role will have visibility to and opportunity to collaborate with the CFO, CAO, CPO, CIO, GC, and partner with our Tax, AP, AR, Treasury, FP&A, and Financial Reporting/Consolidations/Accounting Systems teams to advance the direction of the accounting functions of the organization.

Requirements

• Significant GAAP working knowledge
• Deep subledger and General Ledger experience in a multi-national, public company environment
• 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
• 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, independent thinker with experience migrating accounting operations and experience implementing systems
• Bachelor's degree required - Accounting and/or Finance
• Management of stand-alone audits
• Multi-currency and international company experience (including multiple GAAP/ledger reporting)
• Experience with securitized debt and franchisees highly preferred
• U.S. GAAP and Internal Controls/SOX
• CPA required
• International, public company experience required
• Public Accounting experience required
• 15+ years' experience required
• Ability to travel as needed, minimal travel anticipated

Nice To Haves

• Experience with process automation preferred
• Experience with securitized debt and franchisees highly preferred

Responsibilities

• Create and execute strategies and specific objectives to oversee the global operations and policies of the General Ledger organization for all operating and corporate segments
• Manage the month end closing and financial reporting processes including journal entry review, account reconciliation and variance analysis
• Remediate and work to actively prevent control deficiencies through improving requisite public company disciplines within Controlling organization and other teams and departments in the end-to-end processes under General Accounting
• Oversee all monthly, quarterly, and annual accounting close processes and reporting
• Serve as lead contact for all record-to-report activities for all US GAAP and certain international stand-alone financial reporting (including both domestic and international reporting)
• 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
• Partner with upstream process counterparts and FP&A to ensure that all financial information is delivered in accordance with timelines for analytical needs
• Special projects as assigned

Benefits

• Driven Brands offers a variety of health and wellness benefits including paid time off and holiday pay.
• Details regarding our benefits can be found here: https://www.drivenbrandsbenefits.com
• Get early access to 50% of your earned wages at any time through our myFlexPay program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees