Senior Accountant, Advertising Funds

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.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

The Senior Accountant, Advertising Funds is responsible for hands-on accounting and close activities for assigned advertising fund entities within Driven Brands’ multi-brand franchise environment. Reporting to the Manager, Advertising Funds, this role prepares journal entries, marketing accruals, account reconciliations, and financial analyses to support accurate, timely, and well-supported financial reporting.

The Senior Accountant partners with Marketing, FP&A, and other accounting teams to understand advertising activity, validate the completeness and timing of expenses, and ensure only appropriate costs are recorded to the funds. This role also supports internal controls, audit requests, and practical process improvements, including assigned remediation activities related to journal entries and account reconciliations.

How you will Own It:

- Advertising Funds Accounting and Close
- Own monthly, quarterly, and year-end close deliverables for advertising fund entities, meeting established deadlines and documentation standards.
- Prepare and submit journal entries for review and approval, including marketing accruals, prepaid expense amortization, reclassifications, allocations, and other fund-related activity.
- Meet with Marketing and business partners to understand campaign activity, services received, outstanding invoices, and spending commitments; develop supported accrual estimates and reconcile them to subsequent invoices.
- Evaluate supporting documentation and cost classifications to ensure expenses are recorded to the appropriate fund, entity, account, and period in accordance with company policies and applicable fund agreements; escalate unclear or unusual items to the Manager.
- Reconcile assigned balance sheet accounts, including accrued liabilities, prepaids, and intercompany balances, as applicable; investigate aged or unsupported items and follow them through resolution.
- Partner with Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Treasury, and other accounting teams to resolve coding, contribution, settlement, and cash-related discrepancies affecting assigned funds.
- Analysis and Business Partnership
- Prepare fund-level financial schedules and variance analyses, explaining significant movements in expenses, accruals, and balance sheet accounts.
- Partner with FP&A and Marketing to investigate differences between recorded results, planned spending, and underlying campaign activity, while maintaining clear ownership of accounting conclusions.
- Prepare reporting inputs and supporting schedules for management and Financial Reporting, including fund-level or standalone reporting requests, as assigned.
- Communicate close risks, missing information, unusual transactions, and proposed resolutions promptly to the Manager, Advertising Funds.
- Reconciliations, Controls and Remediation Support
- Prepare and support account reconciliations with clear explanations, appropriate support, and timely follow-up on reconciling items.
- Execute assigned SOX controls related to journal entries, reconciliations, account reviews, and close activities.
- Support remediation efforts by improving documentation quality, evidence retention, and consistency of execution.
- Assist with audit requests and management review support as needed.
- Process Improvement and Stakeholder Support
- Identify opportunities to improve close task execution, reconciliation templates, journal entry support, and documentation standards.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to obtain close inputs, resolve questions, and support accurate accounting outcomes.
- Contribute to a culture of accountability, timely issue resolution, and continuous improvement within the Advertising Funds Accounting function.

What you’ll Bring:

- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant accounting experience.
- At least three years of progressive accounting experience, including hands-on responsibility for month-end close, journal entries, accruals, and account reconciliations.
- Working knowledge of U.S. GAAP and the ability to research discrepancies, evaluate supporting documentation, and develop well-supported accounting conclusions.
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, and analysis of large data sets; experience working with an ERP system.
- Understanding of internal controls and the documentation needed to support accounting entries, reconciliations, and audit requests.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage competing deadlines and work independently within established review processes.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills and the ability to obtain timely, accurate information from non-accounting business partners.
- Willing to work in a fast-paced environment.

Added Fuel if you have:

- Experience with advertising funds, franchise accounting, marketing expense accounting, or a multi-entity environment.

- Public-company and/or public accounting experience, including exposure to SOX controls and audit support.

- CPA designation or progress toward certification.

- Experience with Oracle Cloud ERP, Oracle EPM tools such as ARCS or FCCS, or comparable reconciliation and reporting platforms.

- Experience supporting control remediation, process standardization, or automation of recurring accounting activities.

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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