<p>Company:Driven Brands</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Performance matters. We take pride in it. We own it. We show up for one another and for our communities.</p> <p>Because at Driven Brands, we're not just fixing cars. We're building futures, unlocking potential, and fueling what's possible - together.</p> <p>JOB DESCRIPTION:</p> <p>The Senior Manager / Director of Cash and Revenue Accounting is a critical leadership role responsible for overseeing all accounting activities related to cash, revenue, and related balance sheet accounts in a publicly traded U.S. GAAP environment. This role is especially pivotal in a post-material weakness and restatement context, with primary responsibility for stabilizing, redesigning, and strengthening processes, internal controls, and documentation to support sustainable compliance, auditability, and timely financial reporting.</p> <p>Reporting to senior accounting leadership, this role will lead a multi-location team and partner closely with Treasury, FP&A, AR/AP, Financial Reporting, Tax, Systems, and Internal and External Audit. The successful candidate will bring a hands-on, change-oriented mindset, deep technical accounting expertise, and a proven ability to remediate control deficiencies, institutionalize best practices, and prevent recurrence of prior issues.</p> <p>Key Objectives of the Role:</p> <ul> <li>Restore confidence in cash and revenue accounting processes following a material weakness and restatement </li><li>Design and implement durable, auditable, and SOX-compliant processes and controls </li><li>Improve timeliness, accuracy, and transparency of close and reporting deliverables </li><li>Elevate documentation quality, review rigor, and ownership across teams </li><li>Serve as a trusted partner to audit, finance leadership, and regulators </li></ul> <p>How you will Own It:</p> <p>Leadership & Team Management</p> <ul> <li>Lead, develop, and inspire a multi-location team responsible for cash, revenue, and related accounting activities </li><li>Establish clear accountability, review standards, and escalation protocols </li><li>Coach team members through heightened scrutiny environments (e.g., audits, restatement remediation, ICFR testing) </li><li>Foster a culture that prioritizes accuracy, control ownership, and continuous improvement </li></ul> <p>Cash and Revenue Accounting Oversight</p> <ul> <li>Oversee accounting for all cash transactions, revenue recognition, and related reserves, accruals, and balance sheet reconciliations </li><li>Ensure accurate and timely preparation and review of: </li><li>Journal entries </li><li>Account reconciliations </li><li>Variance analyses </li><li>Monthly, quarterly, and annual close deliverables </li><li>Partner with Treasury on cash activity, liquidity reporting, and reconciling items </li><li>Collaborate with AR teams to ensure completeness and accuracy of revenue and cash application processes </li></ul> <p>Internal Controls</p> <ul> <li>Play a central role in designing, implementing, and sustaining remediation plans related to prior material weaknesses and restatement findings </li><li>Re-engineer end-to-end cash and revenue processes to address root causes, not just audit findings </li><li>Strengthen SOX controls, including: </li><li>Control design and documentation </li><li>Precision of controls </li><li>Review evidence standards </li><li>Monitoring and issue remediation </li><li>Proactively identify emerging control risks and implement preventative controls </li></ul> <p>Audit & Stakeholder Management</p> <ul> <li>Serve as a primary accounting stakeholder for internal and external audits related to cash and revenue </li><li>Prepare and review audit support with an emphasis on clarity, completeness, and consistency </li><li>Respond to audit inquiries and lead remediation of identified issues </li><li>Partner with Financial Reporting on disclosures, footnotes, and support related to cash and revenue for numerous annual and quarterly financial statement issuances </li></ul> <p>Process Improvement & Systems Enablement</p> <ul> <li>Build scalable, repeatable, and well-documented processes using best-in-class tools and technology </li><li>Drive close acceleration initiatives, reconciliation automation, and KPI development </li><li>Ensure processes are designed to perform under scrutiny, not just to "get through close" </li></ul> <p>Cross-Functional Collaboration</p> <ul> <li>Partner closely with FP&A to support forecasting, analytics, and management reporting </li><li>Coordinate with Tax on cash-related tax reporting, intercompany settlements, and compliance needs </li><li>Collaborate with upstream process owners to ensure transactional integrity and data flow </li><li>Provide ad-hoc analysis and insights to senior finance and accounting leadership </li></ul> <p>What you'll Bring:</p> <ul> <li>Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance </li><li>CPA required </li><li>10+ years progressive accounting experience (Director-level candidates typically 12-15+) </li><li>Public company experience required </li><li>Strong U.S. GAAP and SOX/ICFR expertise </li><li>Demonstrated experience remediating control deficiencies and supporting post-restatement environments </li><li>Proven ability to operate effectively under heightened audit and regulatory scrutiny </li></ul> <p>Added Fuel if you have:</p> <ul> <li>Public accounting experience (Big 4 or national firm strongly preferred) </li><li>Experience with revenue complexity, multi-location operations, or franchised business models in a multi-currency environment </li><li>Exposure to securitized debt, complex cash structures, or multi-entity environments </li><li>Oracle ERP and EPM system experience </li><li>Experience driving process automation and close transformation initiatives </li></ul> <p>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.</p> <p>Get early access to 50% of your earned wages at any time through our myFlexPay program.</p>