Financial Analyst

Company:Driven Brands

We invite you to join us at Driven Brands!

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:

Responsibilities:

• Build strategic plans and forecasts, including annual budgets and long-range plans
• Act as a business partner to key corporate function leaders such as M&A, Finance, and Legal
• Provide strategic insight and analytical support to help guide business decisions
• Develop business case models
• Ad-hoc reporting, analysis, and projects such as quarterly earnings preparation, ROIC, etc.
• Assist with consolidation for the Driven Brands portfolio as well as identification of key risks and opportunities and key drivers to the business
• Flash and periodic business reporting including variance analysis
• Develop and maintain forecasts for in-month updates
• Assist with annual and long-range plan coordination and consolidation
• Develop quarterly and monthly departmental reports

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or similar field of study
• 1-3 years of relevant work experience in Finance, corporate strategy, or consulting
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills

• Professional and polished in written and spoken form
• Organized and thorough

• Keen analytical and problem-solving skills, with ability to learn new systems and processes quickly

Preferred qualifications:

• Strong ability to turn data into actionable insights
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver meaningful results
• Experience building financial models / business cases
• Experience with headcount expense analysis
• Knowledge of planning technologies; OneStream and/or Oracle EPM desired