Vice President, Corporate Controller

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.

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.

• 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.

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 qualification. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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.…