Director, Accounts Payable

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Headquartered in Charlotte, NC, Driven Brands (NASDAQ: DRVN) is the largest automotive services company in North America, providing a range of consumer and commercial automotive needs, including paint, collision, glass, vehicle repair, oil change, maintenance and car wash.

With over 4,500 centers in 15 countries, Driven Brands is the parent company of some of North America’s leading automotive service brands including Take 5 Oil Change, Take 5 Car Wash, Driven Glass, Meineke, Maaco, CARSTAR, and more.  Our network services over 50 million vehicles annually and generates more than $5 billion in system-wide sales each year.

Our culture inspires high performance and innovation, enabling our employees to go further, faster in their careers. With amazing people and great brands, we confidently look forward to exciting growth ahead, and believe in following the values that support this vision.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Position Summary:

The Director, Accounts Payable is a key member of the Accounts Payable team and will work closely with internal business leaders in Procurement, Accounting and leading the Accounts Payable team. The Director, Accounts Payable will report to the VP, Finance Operations, and he/she will be responsible for leading the AP team, driving process and system improvement, and maintaining compliance across the function.

Responsibilities:

• Act as the “face” of the Accounts Payable team and exhibit a high degree of customer service for internal “customers / business partners” across the organization.  Acts as the focal point for any performance issues / challenges that are escalated for resolution both within Driven Brands and external suppliers.
• Provide leadership and vision by identifying the optimum accounts payable model that achieves efficiency goals and maintains speed and quality of service and leads the team to achieve that objective. 
• Work with Finance and Business Leadership to create, implement and report on SLAs across critical areas of Accounts Payable.
• Balance workloads and optimize team structure and resources to ensure scalable functions. Ensure appropriate training and knowledge transfer occurs within department and relevant cross functional groups.
• Has overall accountability for AP close process ensuring timely and accurate execution.
• Develops, implements, and maintains systems, procedures, and policies, to ensure adherence to company guidelines.
• As the process owner for AP processes, identifies, promotes, and supports process optimization, standardization, and improvement to deliver cost-savings and efficiencies across the organization.   Works collaboratively with procurement to enable efficient end-to-end Procure to Pay processes.
• Develop robust reporting, analytics and KPIs designed to measure, track, and improve productivity and explore new metrics and reporting to improve the measurement processes, providing greater transparency to leadership.  
• Review systems and processes within the organization; identify process improvement needs and/or gaps in current work procedures. 
• Responsible for adherence to business support SLAs and work with Finance leadership to develop a process governance model to incorporate a feedback loop (Voice of the Customer)
• Develop a highly performing cohesive team environment that encourages maximum productivity, a positive work environment, employee engagement, professional development, open communication, teamwork, and collaboration built on mutual accountability and respect.
• Execute and enforce the Company's accounting policies, procedures and methodologies and support communication to the internal organization.
• Adheres to all Sarbanes-Oxley, audit procedures and regulatory requirements to ensure full compliance; monitors established control points and collaborates with the Internal Audit team for alignment.

Preferred Skills/Experience:

• Strong financial operations experience (operationally and finance) – global experience preferred.
• Experienced in a multi-company shared services support structure.
• Experience in a public, SOX controls environment.
• Demonstrates the ability to manage end-to-end experience of our stakeholders and suppliers through the invoicing and payment life cycle.
• Ability to hold the business accountable to the adherence of business policy, contractual requirements, and standard accounting procedures
• Ability to drive process and systems enhancements through targeted initiatives to drive efficiency, effectiveness, and scalability for the new organization.
• Ability to lead and influence diverse, cross-functional teams.
• Ability to drive business decisions across business teams.
• The ability to understand business activities with a view that goes beyond the finance function. 
• Experience in End-to-End Procure to Pay process improvement a plus.
• Lean Six Sigma experience is a plus.
• Experience in a matrix organization.
• Experience working with large data sets and providing robust analytics and insights to business leaders.
• Experience working with IT in development of new system/process enhancements, including requirements building/gathering.
• Experience with intelligent automation/RPA for AP processes as a plus.

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