Senior Accountant, Inventory

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, Inventory Accounting will support inventory-related accounting activities, including month-end close, journal entries, reconciliations, account analysis, controls, and audit support. This role requires a detail-oriented accounting professional who can work with large volumes of operational and financial data, identify and resolve reconciling items, and support accurate and timely financial reporting in a complex operating environment.

This position will partner with cross-functional teams to understand inventory activity, improve documentation, strengthen account reconciliations, and support consistent execution of inventory accounting processes. This role is especially important in a control-focused environment where the company is strengthening processes, documentation, and controls related to journal entries and account reconciliations. The successful candidate should be comfortable working in a dynamic environment, researching issues independently, and helping build practical, repeatable processes.

How you will Own It: 

• Prepare and support monthly, quarterly, and annual close activities related to inventory accounts.
• Prepare journal entries, account reconciliations, variance analyses, and supporting schedules.
• Analyze inventory-related activity to identify trends, discrepancies, reconciling items, and potential process issues.
• Research and resolve differences between operational records, subledger activity, and general ledger balances.
• Maintain complete, accurate, and audit-ready documentation supporting accounting conclusions, reconciliations, journal entries, and close deliverables.
• Reconciliations, Controls & Compliance
• Prepare and maintain complex reconciliations for inventory and related balance sheet accounts.
• Investigate reconciling items and exceptions, perform root-cause analysis, and partner with cross-functional teams to drive timely resolution.
• Execute assigned SOX controls and maintain evidence demonstrating effective control performance and review readiness.
• Support improvements to reconciliation quality, documentation standards, control evidence, and close consistency across assigned accounting areas.
• Support a control-focused accounting environment by preparing well-supported journal entries, maintaining high-quality reconciliations, resolving reconciling items timely, and improving documentation to support review, audit, and SOX requirements.
• Assist with internal and external audit requests by preparing clear schedules, support, explanations, and follow-up responses.
• Process Improvement & Cross-Functional Partnership
• Partner with Operations, Supply Chain, IT, FP&A, Internal Audit, SOX, and other accounting teams to obtain information, resolve issues, and support accurate financial results.
• Identify opportunities to improve manual workflows, strengthen documentation, enhance reconciliation quality, and improve consistency across assigned accounting areas.
• Communicate questions, risks, open items, and recommended solutions clearly and timely to management.

What you’ll Bring: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• 3–5 years of progressive accounting experience, including experience with month-end close, journal entries, account reconciliations, variance analysis, and audit support.
• Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP, internal controls, and accounting documentation requirements.
• Experience working with operational or financial data and reconciling activity across multiple systems or data sources.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and time-management skills, with the ability to manage deadlines and follow up on open items.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, conditional logic, data validation, and ability to analyze large data sets.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain accounting issues clearly to both accounting and non-accounting stakeholders.
• High attention to detail and commitment to accuracy, completeness, documentation discipline, and timely escalation.
• Preferred
• CPA or CPA candidate preferred.
• Public company, public accounting, multi-location, high-volume transaction processing, or other complex operating environment experience.
• Experience with inventory accounting, cost accounting, balance sheet reconciliations, controls, or related operational accounting activity.
• Experience operating in a control-focused, remediation, transformation, or high-change environment.

The successful candidate is a hands-on, detail-oriented accounting professional who is comfortable working with inventory-related activity, reconciling complex accounts, and supporting accurate financial reporting in a dynamic environment. Success in the role will be demonstrated through timely close execution, accurate reconciliations, audit-ready support, strong cross-functional partnership, and the ability to improve documentation and processes over time.

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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Base pay offered may vary depending on actual location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Supplemental pay types may include commissions or bonus incentives, depending on the role. 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

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