Senior Lease Accountant
for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title. Remove boilerplate. Preserve all substantive info.
We need to parse the posting.
Company description: "Company:Driven Brands Driven Brands is North America's largest automotive services company..." This is about the company. Could be "About the role"? Actually "About the role" is typical heading for description of role. But we have a company description. Could treat as "About the role"? The instruction: use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can use those headings if content matches.
We have job description paragraphs: "The Senior Lease Accountant is a key member..." That's responsibilities. Then "How You Will Own It" with bullet-like paragraphs (though not bullet list). Then sections: Journal Entries & Close Process, Account Reconciliations & Balance Sheet Integrity, Internal Controls & Material Weakness Remediation, Audit & Compliance Support. Those are responsibilities.
Then "What You’ll Bring" includes qualifications: Bachelor’s degree..., 3-5 years..., Strong knowledge..., Experience..., Advanced Microsoft Excel skills., Preferred: CPA..., Public company..., Experience..., Experience with lease accounting software..., Experience with Oracle, FCCS...
Then at end: "#dbcorp Get early access to 50% of your earned wages at any time through our myFlexPay program." That's a benefit (myFlexPay). So we have a benefit.
No explicit Pay or Schedule info. So we should not create those sections.
We need to output sections only when there is real specific content. So we can have:
About the role
maybe include company description? Or we could put company description under About the role. The instruction: "Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it)". So we can have About the role heading with description of role and company? Usually About the role includes overview. We'll put the company description and role overview there.
Then Responsibilities: combine all the responsibility paragraphs (including How You Will Own It subsections). Could break into subheadings? Not required; just use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. But we have prose paragraphs; we can keep them as
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Requirements: maybe combine "What You’ll Bring" required qualifications (Bachelor’s degree, 3-5 years, strong knowledge, experience preparing journal entries, advanced Excel). That's required.
Qualifications: maybe preferred qualifications (CPA, public company experience, experience remediating material weaknesses, experience with lease accounting software, experience with Oracle/FCCS). Could be under Qualifications.
Skills: maybe Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (but that's already in requirements). Could separate but we can keep under Skills if we want. But we need to avoid thin sections. Perhaps combine Requirements and Qualifications? But instruction: prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could have:
- About the role (company + role overview)
- Responsibilities (all duty paragraphs)
- Qualifications (both required and preferred)
- Benefits (myFlexPay)
We could also have Skills if we want but maybe not needed.
We must not invent or summarize away detail. Must preserve all substantive information. So we need to include all details from the posting.
Let's extract all substantive info:
Company description:
- 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®.
- Vision: fuel the pursuit with the simplest, most convenient, and most reliable car care experience.
- Headquartered in Charlotte, NC.
- More than a workplace; launchpad for careers, dreams, people driven to do great things.
- Every day, fuel the pursuit — for customers chasing life's moments, franchisees building lasting legacies, and each other as we grow, lead, succeed together.
- Performance matters. Take pride, own it, show up for one another and 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 (role overview):
- The Senior Lease Accountant is a key member of the Corporate Accounting team responsible for lease accounting, journal entries, reconciliations, control execution, and audit-ready documentation.
- This role is especially important in an environment addressing material weaknesses related to leases, journal entries, and account reconciliations.
- The Senior Lease Accountant will help strengthen day-to-day accounting processes, support remediation activities, and assist with the company’s lease system transition by validating data, testing processes, documenting procedures, and supporting accurate financial reporting under U.S. GAAP, ASC 842, and SOX requirements.
How You Will Own It (detailed responsibilities):
- Prepare and maintain accounting for operating leases, finance leases, lease modifications, additions, terminations, and remeasurements in accordance with ASC 842.
- Support completeness and accuracy of lease populations, abstracts, assumptions, and supporting documentation.
- Prepare monthly lease accounting entries, including ROU asset amortization, lease liability activity, additions, and terminations.
- Analyze lease agreements and amendments to support proper accounting treatment.
- Coordinate with Real Estate, Legal, Operations, FP&A, and other stakeholders to identify lease events timely.
- Maintain lease accounting schedules and support lease system and ERP data integrity.
- Support the company’s lease system transition, including data validation, user acceptance testing, reporting review, reconciliation of converted balances, and process documentation.
Journal Entries & Close Process:
- Prepare recurring and non-recurring journal entries related to lease accounting and assigned corporate accounting areas.
- Ensure journal entries are supported, documented, and compliant with accounting policies and control requirements.
- Investigate unusual transactions, variances, or errors and assist with timely resolution.
- Support monthly, quarterly, and annual close activities while meeting established deadlines.
Account Reconciliations & Balance Sheet Integrity:
- Prepare and maintain complex reconciliations for lease-related balance sheet accounts.
- Ensure reconciliations are completed timely, accurately, and supported with clear audit-ready documentation.
- Investigate reconciling items, perform root-cause analysis, and assist with resolution of exceptions.
- Support improvements to reconciliation quality, standardization, and compliance with company policies.
Internal Controls & Material Weakness Remediation:
- Support remediation activities related to lease accounting, journal entries, and account reconciliations.
- Execute assigned SOX controls and maintain evidence demonstrating effective control performance.
- Assist with documenting processes, risks, controls, and standard operating procedures.
- Support Accounting Management, SOX, Internal Audit, and External Audit teams during remediation and testing activities.
- Identify control gaps or process weaknesses observed through daily work and recommend practical improvements.
Audit & Compliance Support:
- Prepare support requested by Internal Audit and external auditors.
- Maintain audit-ready workpapers, reconciliations, schedules, and journal entry support.
- Assist with audit inquiries and control testing requests.
- Support compliance with U.S. GAAP, SEC reporting requirements, and company accounting policies.
What You’ll Bring (required):
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance.
- 3-5 years of progressive accounting experience.
- Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP, ICFR, and SOX compliance requirements.
- Experience preparing journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, audit support, and control evidence.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
Preferred:
- CPA or CPA candidate preferred.
- Public company or public accounting experience.
- Experience in an environment remediating material weaknesses or significant control deficiencies.
- Experience with lease accounting software or lease administration systems such as FinQuery, Prolease or similar platforms.
- Experience with Oracle, FCCS or other large ERP/consolidation systems.
Benefit:
- Get early access to 50% of your earned wages at any time through our myFlexPay program.
Also there is "#dbcorp" maybe internal tag; ignore.
We must not include boilerplate like cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. There's none.
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for prose,
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under Responsibilities. That would be a list. The instruction: "Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits". So we should convert those duty paragraphs into list items. Similarly for qualifications (required and preferred) we could make lists. Benefits also list.
Thus we need to decide: For each section, if we have multiple items, we should use
- . If only a paragraph, use
. We'll likely have multiple items for Responsibilities, Qualifications (required and preferred), Benefits.
We need to preserve all info; we can break into sub-sections? Not required but we could keep as one list.
Let's structure:
About the role
Company description paragraphs.
Responsibilities
- Prepare and maintain accounting for operating leases, finance leases, lease modifications, additions, terminations, and remeasurements in accordance with ASC 842.
- Support completeness and accuracy of lease populations, abstracts, assumptions, and supporting documentation.
- Prepare monthly lease accounting entries, including ROU asset amortization, lease liability activity, additions, and terminations.
- Analyze lease agreements and amendments to support proper accounting treatment.
- Coordinate with Real Estate, Legal, Operations, FP&A, and other stakeholders to identify lease events timely.
- Maintain lease accounting schedules and support lease system and ERP data integrity.
- Support the company’s lease system transition, including data validation, user acceptance testing, reporting review, reconciliation of converted balances, and process documentation.
- Prepare recurring and non-recurring journal entries related to lease accounting and assigned corporate accounting areas.
- Ensure journal entries are supported, documented, and compliant with accounting policies and control requirements.
- Investigate unusual transactions, variances, or errors and assist with timely resolution.
- Support monthly, quarterly, and annual close activities while meeting established deadlines.
- Prepare and maintain complex reconciliations for lease-related balance sheet accounts.
- Ensure reconciliations are completed timely, accurately, and supported with clear audit-ready documentation.
- Investigate reconciling items, perform root-cause analysis, and assist with resolution of exceptions.
- Support improvements to reconciliation quality, standardization, and compliance with company policies.
- Support remediation activities related to lease accounting, journal entries, and account reconciliations.
- Execute assigned SOX controls and maintain evidence demonstrating effective control performance.
- Assist with documenting processes, risks, controls, and standard operating procedures.
- Support Accounting Management, SOX, Internal Audit, and External Audit teams during remediation and testing activities.
- Identify control gaps or process weaknesses observed through daily work and recommend practical improvements.
- Prepare support requested by Internal Audit and external auditors.
- Maintain audit-ready workpapers, reconciliations, schedules, and journal entry support.
- Assist with audit inquiries and control testing requests.
- Support compliance with U.S. GAAP, SEC reporting requirements, and company accounting policies.
Qualifications
We could split required and preferred but maybe keep as two sublists? Could have Required
and Preferred
About the role
maybe include company description? Or we could put company description under About the role. The instruction: "Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it)". So we can have About the role heading with description of role and company? Usually About the role includes overview. We'll put the company description and role overview there. Then Responsibilities: combine all the responsibility paragraphs (including How You Will Own It subsections). Could break into subheadings? Not required; just use- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. But we have prose paragraphs; we can keep them as
. However if we have lists, we need to use
- . The posting does not have explicit bullet lists; it's paragraphs. So we can keep as
. Requirements: maybe combine "What You’ll Bring" required qualifications (Bachelor’s degree, 3-5 years, strong knowledge, experience preparing journal entries, advanced Excel). That's required. Qualifications: maybe preferred qualifications (CPA, public company experience, experience remediating material weaknesses, experience with lease accounting software, experience with Oracle/FCCS). Could be under Qualifications. Skills: maybe Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (but that's already in requirements). Could separate but we can keep under Skills if we want. But we need to avoid thin sections. Perhaps combine Requirements and Qualifications? But instruction: prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could have: - About the role (company + role overview) - Responsibilities (all duty paragraphs) - Qualifications (both required and preferred) - Benefits (myFlexPay) We could also have Skills if we want but maybe not needed. We must not invent or summarize away detail. Must preserve all substantive information. So we need to include all details from the posting. Let's extract all substantive info: Company description: - 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®. - Vision: fuel the pursuit with the simplest, most convenient, and most reliable car care experience. - Headquartered in Charlotte, NC. - More than a workplace; launchpad for careers, dreams, people driven to do great things. - Every day, fuel the pursuit — for customers chasing life's moments, franchisees building lasting legacies, and each other as we grow, lead, succeed together. - Performance matters. Take pride, own it, show up for one another and 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 (role overview): - The Senior Lease Accountant is a key member of the Corporate Accounting team responsible for lease accounting, journal entries, reconciliations, control execution, and audit-ready documentation. - This role is especially important in an environment addressing material weaknesses related to leases, journal entries, and account reconciliations. - The Senior Lease Accountant will help strengthen day-to-day accounting processes, support remediation activities, and assist with the company’s lease system transition by validating data, testing processes, documenting procedures, and supporting accurate financial reporting under U.S. GAAP, ASC 842, and SOX requirements. How You Will Own It (detailed responsibilities): - Prepare and maintain accounting for operating leases, finance leases, lease modifications, additions, terminations, and remeasurements in accordance with ASC 842. - Support completeness and accuracy of lease populations, abstracts, assumptions, and supporting documentation. - Prepare monthly lease accounting entries, including ROU asset amortization, lease liability activity, additions, and terminations. - Analyze lease agreements and amendments to support proper accounting treatment. - Coordinate with Real Estate, Legal, Operations, FP&A, and other stakeholders to identify lease events timely. - Maintain lease accounting schedules and support lease system and ERP data integrity. - Support the company’s lease system transition, including data validation, user acceptance testing, reporting review, reconciliation of converted balances, and process documentation. Journal Entries & Close Process: - Prepare recurring and non-recurring journal entries related to lease accounting and assigned corporate accounting areas. - Ensure journal entries are supported, documented, and compliant with accounting policies and control requirements. - Investigate unusual transactions, variances, or errors and assist with timely resolution. - Support monthly, quarterly, and annual close activities while meeting established deadlines. Account Reconciliations & Balance Sheet Integrity: - Prepare and maintain complex reconciliations for lease-related balance sheet accounts. - Ensure reconciliations are completed timely, accurately, and supported with clear audit-ready documentation. - Investigate reconciling items, perform root-cause analysis, and assist with resolution of exceptions. - Support improvements to reconciliation quality, standardization, and compliance with company policies. Internal Controls & Material Weakness Remediation: - Support remediation activities related to lease accounting, journal entries, and account reconciliations. - Execute assigned SOX controls and maintain evidence demonstrating effective control performance. - Assist with documenting processes, risks, controls, and standard operating procedures. - Support Accounting Management, SOX, Internal Audit, and External Audit teams during remediation and testing activities. - Identify control gaps or process weaknesses observed through daily work and recommend practical improvements. Audit & Compliance Support: - Prepare support requested by Internal Audit and external auditors. - Maintain audit-ready workpapers, reconciliations, schedules, and journal entry support. - Assist with audit inquiries and control testing requests. - Support compliance with U.S. GAAP, SEC reporting requirements, and company accounting policies. What You’ll Bring (required): - Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance. - 3-5 years of progressive accounting experience. - Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP, ICFR, and SOX compliance requirements. - Experience preparing journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, audit support, and control evidence. - Advanced Microsoft Excel skills. Preferred: - CPA or CPA candidate preferred. - Public company or public accounting experience. - Experience in an environment remediating material weaknesses or significant control deficiencies. - Experience with lease accounting software or lease administration systems such as FinQuery, Prolease or similar platforms. - Experience with Oracle, FCCS or other large ERP/consolidation systems. Benefit: - Get early access to 50% of your earned wages at any time through our myFlexPay program. Also there is "#dbcorp" maybe internal tag; ignore. We must not include boilerplate like cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. There's none. Now we need to output HTML fragment with headings
and
for prose,
- for any list. We have lists of responsibilities? Could format each duty as
- under a
- under Responsibilities. That would be a list. The instruction: "Use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits". So we should convert those duty paragraphs into list items. Similarly for qualifications (required and preferred) we could make lists. Benefits also list.
Thus we need to decide: For each section, if we have multiple items, we should use
- . If only a paragraph, use
. We'll likely have multiple items for Responsibilities, Qualifications (required and preferred), Benefits. We need to preserve all info; we can break into sub-sections? Not required but we could keep as one list. Let's structure:
About the role
Company description paragraphs.
Responsibilities
- Prepare and maintain accounting for operating leases, finance leases, lease modifications, additions, terminations, and remeasurements in accordance with ASC 842.
- Support completeness and accuracy of lease populations, abstracts, assumptions, and supporting documentation.
- Prepare monthly lease accounting entries, including ROU asset amortization, lease liability activity, additions, and terminations.
- Analyze lease agreements and amendments to support proper accounting treatment.
- Coordinate with Real Estate, Legal, Operations, FP&A, and other stakeholders to identify lease events timely.
- Maintain lease accounting schedules and support lease system and ERP data integrity.
- Support the company’s lease system transition, including data validation, user acceptance testing, reporting review, reconciliation of converted balances, and process documentation.
- Prepare recurring and non-recurring journal entries related to lease accounting and assigned corporate accounting areas.
- Ensure journal entries are supported, documented, and compliant with accounting policies and control requirements.
- Investigate unusual transactions, variances, or errors and assist with timely resolution.
- Support monthly, quarterly, and annual close activities while meeting established deadlines.
- Prepare and maintain complex reconciliations for lease-related balance sheet accounts.
- Ensure reconciliations are completed timely, accurately, and supported with clear audit-ready documentation.
- Investigate reconciling items, perform root-cause analysis, and assist with resolution of exceptions.
- Support improvements to reconciliation quality, standardization, and compliance with company policies.
- Support remediation activities related to lease accounting, journal entries, and account reconciliations.
- Execute assigned SOX controls and maintain evidence demonstrating effective control performance.
- Assist with documenting processes, risks, controls, and standard operating procedures.
- Support Accounting Management, SOX, Internal Audit, and External Audit teams during remediation and testing activities.
- Identify control gaps or process weaknesses observed through daily work and recommend practical improvements.
- Prepare support requested by Internal Audit and external auditors.
- Maintain audit-ready workpapers, reconciliations, schedules, and journal entry support.
- Assist with audit inquiries and control testing requests.
- Support compliance with U.S. GAAP, SEC reporting requirements, and company accounting policies.
Qualifications
We could split required and preferred but maybe keep as two sublists? Could haveRequired
andPreferred
- . If only a paragraph, use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits". So we should convert those duty paragraphs into list items. Similarly for qualifications (required and preferred) we could make lists. Benefits also list.
Thus we need to decide: For each section, if we have multiple items, we should use
- . The posting does not have explicit bullet lists; it's paragraphs. So we can keep as