Business Controller - Europe

Make a Difference at Ahold Delhaize

About Ahold Delhaize
We’re Ahold Delhaize, one of the world’s largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and e-commerce. Together with our 17 strong local retail brands in the United States, Europe and Indonesia, we make a meaningful difference in the lives of our brands’ customers, our people and the world around us. We offer a highly dynamic, international work environment in which our associates thrive.

Your new role
As Business Controller for European Business Services (EBS), you will play a pivotal role in supporting and shaping the financial strategy of Ahold Delhaize’s shared services across Europe. This includes Business Services Finance (BSF), HR Services, and Not-for-Retail (NFR) Sourcing, including our newly established services entity in Serbia. You’ll collaborate across brands, countries, and functions—including with AD’s global team— in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

You’ll help guide decision-making and drive value through strategic financial insights, supporting some of Europe’s most critical strategic initiatives, such as the largest tech transformation in the European finance organization, as we implement components of a new global financial system.

What you’ll do
Your responsibilities span strategic finance, with a strong focus on business partnering, project support, and continuous improvement across all three shared services areas.

Business Partnering & Strategic Support

• Contribute to the financial support of initiatives across BSF, HR Services, and NFR Sourcing, developing business cases to ensure long-term value creation.
• Collaborate with EBS leaders to safeguard and implement strategic plans.
• Translate diverse local business interests into unified, value-adding solutions for the European region.

G&A Controlling for EBS

• Lead G&A planning cycles, periodic closing, and reporting for the EBS organization.
• Partner with budget owners across EBS to ensure alignment, transparency, and financial clarity.
• Prepare and deliver impactful reporting and presentations to senior leadership.
• Gain wide exposure to key leaders across EBS and contribute to strategic financial direction.

Transformation & Continuous Improvement

• Support the strategic rollout of new critical tech enablement platforms and other strategic initiatives within EBS.
• Identify opportunities to streamline processes and enhance clarity in financial reporting.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve financial and business processes across Europe.

What do we offer?

• To be courageous
• To live wholeheartedly
• To keep growing

Why join us?

At Ahold Delhaize, you’ll be part of a collaborative and forward-thinking team. We offer the freedom and responsibility to take ownership of your work, and the opportunity to grow alongside colleagues across Europe. We invest in our people and empower them to make a meaningful impact.

What’s in it for you?
Aside from what we ask of you in this role, we also have a great deal to offer you: plenty of growth opportunities and various cross-brand career options; flexible working hours; hybrid working – we encourage you to spend at least 3 days a week, on average, at the office (based on a 40-hour work week); and the chance to drive meaningful change on a global scale. You can look forward to a good work-life balance, and the chance to work in an inclusive environment that wholeheartedly encourages growth and welcomes you just the way you are.

Plus:

• A gross annual salary between €60.000,- and 75.000,- based on full-time employment, including holiday allowance
• Attractive bonuses
• A first-rate pension plan
• 45 vacation days per year (25,5 vacation days + 19,5 paid-leave days)
• Travel expenses or an NS travel card
• A laptop and smartphone

What do you bring?

• A positive attitude
• Collaborative skills
• Passion for data

We think you’ll be best geared for success if you meet the following requirements:

• Combine a Master degree in Finance & Accounting, Business Administration or Economics with 2-5 years of relevant work experience, e.g., in Finance Consultancy roles, change projects in financial processes, FP&A, Business Control, M&A or Audit.
• Bring experience in (finance) process design, process optimalization and change management.
• Bring solid project management qualities to the table – a must because you will work in multifunctional teams. You bring organization sensitivity, humor and confidence.
• A strategic mindset with strong analytical skills and a passion for continuous improvement.
• Experience in finance business partnering, ideally within a multinational or shared services environment.
• Ability to navigate complex stakeholder landscapes and work effectively across cultures.
• Have strong analytical skills.
• Are fluent/native in English, Dutch is considered a big plus.

Why Ahold Delhaize?

• Huge Impact
• Work with fun and smart colleagues
• (Inter)national growth opportunities

Ahold Delhaize is seeking a Business Controller for European Business Services to support financial strategy and drive value across shared services in Europe. This hybrid role is based in Zaandam and involves collaboration across multiple brands and countries to lead financial planning, reporting, and strategic initiatives.

What matters to us?

Ahold Delhaize is one of the world’s largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and e-commerce. Together, we help people eat well, save time and live better – it’s how we make a difference. And we do it because we care: for our customers, our people and the world around us.

Be courageous

"I realized how much impact you can truly have as an individual, working for such a huge international company.”
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Live wholeheartedly

“The support this company has always offered means the world to me."
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Keep growing

“I feel the freedom to show initiative, propose changes and try new things. Having that freedom gave me wings to fly.”
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Meet your colleagues

Capex Manager

"I need to feel like I'm constantly moving forward."
Monica Lefterica Capex Manager

Finance Director

"Go out there and do it – if it doesn’t work out, we'll fix it together."
Frederieke de Haas- van den Vlekkert Finance Director

Financial Controller Commerce

“I love working for a company that encourages you to fully be yourself"
Bram Koper Financial Controller Commerce

Contact: For questions, feel free to contact Milou van Regteren, Talent Acquisition Partner Finance via milou.van.regteren@aholddelhaize.com