Senior Accountant, Inventory

Posted 23hrs ago

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Senior Accountant managing inventory close, reconciliations, journal entries, and SOX controls for Driven Brands’ automotive services business. Improving documentation, processes, and financial reporting accuracy.

Responsibilities:

  • 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
  • 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
  • Assist with internal and external audit requests by preparing schedules, support, explanations, and follow-up responses
  • Partner with Operations, Supply Chain, IT, FP&A, Internal Audit, SOX, and other accounting teams
  • Identify opportunities to improve manual workflows, strengthen documentation, enhance reconciliation quality, and improve consistency
  • Communicate questions, risks, open items, and recommended solutions to management

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
  • 3–5 years of progressive accounting experience, including 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
  • Ability to manage deadlines and follow up on open items
  • Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, conditional logic, data validation, and analyzing large data sets
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • High attention to detail and commitment to accuracy, completeness, documentation discipline, and timely escalation
  • CPA or CPA candidate preferred
  • Public company, public accounting, multi-location, high-volume transaction processing, or other complex operating environment experience preferred
  • Experience with inventory accounting, cost accounting, balance sheet reconciliations, controls, or related operational accounting activity preferred
  • Experience operating in a control-focused, remediation, transformation, or high-change environment preferred

Benefits:

  • Health and wellness benefits
  • Paid time off
  • Holiday pay
  • Early access to 50% of earned wages at any time through the myFlexPay program