Job Description

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.

The Intercompany Accounting Manager reports into the Sr. Director – Corporate Accounting, this position is responsible for performing the global intercompany accounting processes, ensuring accurate accounting and reconciliation of intercompany transactions, and managing US GAAP and some statutory accounting for international subsidiaries and holding entities. This newly-created role plays a critical part in monthly closing and consolidation procedures, while ensuring compliance with accounting standards, transfer pricing and management fee policies, and ensuring compliance with SOX controls.

How you will Own it :

Intercompany Accounting & Close

• Create processes to perform all intercompany accounting activities, including intercompany billing, settlements, eliminations, and reconciliations across global entities
• Ensure timely and accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual intercompany close processes
• Resolve intercompany imbalances and disputes in collaboration with segment and corporate accounting teams
• Create and enforce intercompany accounting policies, procedures, and governance
• Support consolidation and elimination entries for global financial reporting

International Subsidiary & Holding Company Accounting

• Perform all accounting for international subsidiaries and holding companies, including general ledger oversight and review
• Ensure compliance with US GAAP and local statutory accounting requirements (leveraging third parties as needed to perform annual statutory financial reporting requirements and audits)
• Oversee accounting for dividends, capital contributions, intercompany loans, equity transactions, and restructuring activities
• Coordinate with external advisors and local teams on statutory reporting, audits, and filings
• Monitor foreign currency accounting, including remeasurement and translation

Controls, Compliance & Audit

• Ensure strong internal controls over intercompany and subsidiary accounting processes
• Support internal and external audits, including preparation of documentation and resolution of audit findings
• Partner with Tax to ensure alignment with transfer pricing policies and documentation
• Identify and mitigate accounting and operational risks across global entities

Process Improvement & Systems

• Drive standardization and automation of intercompany and subsidiary accounting processes
• Partner with systems teams on ERP and EPM design, enhancements, and global rollouts
• Develop scalable processes to support acquisitions, restructurings, and geographic expansion as applicable
• Document and continuously improve accounting policies, procedures, and close calendars

Leadership & Collaboration

• Act as a subject‑matter expert for intercompany and global entity accounting
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with Tax, Treasury, Legal, FP&A, and regional finance leaders
• Provide clear guidance and training to global teams on accounting policies and expectations

What you’ll Bring:

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.

Added Fuel if you have:

• Strong U.S. GAAP and SOX working knowledge
• Historical success with performing high quality accounting processes, including policy creation and streamlining work
• Experience with consolidations 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, and independent thinker

Desired Education, Experience and Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required – Accounting
• Multi-currency and international company experience preferred
• U.S. GAAP and Internal Controls/SOX required
• CPA required
• Public company experience required
• Public Accounting experience required
• 5+ years' experience required
  

PHYSICAL DEMANDS
While performing the duties of this job, the team member is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The team member frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The team member is occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, repetitive use (or motion) of arms and hands, bend and stoop, and lift to 10 pounds.

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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