Consultant Financial Control

As a Financial Control Consultant, you will be responsible for a variety of financial projects, fulfilling roles as a project consultant and within Financial Control. This is an interesting and highly varied position in which you will quickly gain insight into many different aspects of the Finance organization at Ahold Delhaize.

You will join Ahold Delhaize on a permanent contract and take on project‑based assignments in Finance—such as Financial Controller, Product Owner, and Project Consultant. This is an exciting opportunity for those who enjoy variety and like to experience different aspects of Finance and the wider organization. The scope of work is diverse, with high organizational visibility and significant impact.

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 work environment

Are you a financial controller who would also enjoy leading a major project, or a project consultant who is also capable of filling a financial control position for six months? Then this is the role for you. You will advise the business and help shape, optimize, and implement processes.

Our Business Services Finance department consists of three sub-departments, each with several teams:

1. Financial Control is responsible for the financial administration of our brands and for managing the relationship with the external auditor and our outsourcing partner for F&A. Financial Control consists of the following teams:
   • FC Commerce
   • FC OPEX
   • FC Real Estate & Construction
   • FC Online
   • FC Etos & Gall
2. Risk & Control is responsible for maintaining and monitoring the Risk & Control Framework for the various Dutch entities of Ahold.
3. Finance Services consists of a consultant team and three product teams covering the wide array of retail and processes:
   • Business Process Improvement (incl. Financial Control Consultants)
   • Purchase-to-Pay
   • Record-to-Report
   • Order-to-Cash

Each team consists of domain experts who partner with the Financial Control team, our outsourcing partner, and the Tech teams. Together, they are responsible for product development and process improvement, and they serve as the first point of contact for the Finance organization.

As a Finance Consultant, depending on your own ambitions and where the needs within our department lie, you will work within these teams. At one point, you might temporarily step in for a financial controller who is on sabbatical, and your next assignment could be implementing a new tool within Finance!

Key responsibilities of your role

Financial Control

• Responsible for the periodic closing of one of the entities.
• Ensure an accurate and complete P&L and Balance Sheet and make sure that the figures are quickly available to the Business Controllers.
• Contribute to improving financial control and helping the organization to become more in control.
• Financial point of contact for the Business Controllers.

Project Consultant

• Driving the change agenda of Finance Services NL
• Gather inputs and help shape the vision, roadmap and project calendar for the brands; contribute to scoping of business development and innovation projects
• Identify, align and direct plans for optimizing business processes and increase the value Business Services Finance delivers to the business
• Monitor project progress (scope, timeline, budget, benefits), manage risks and issues, and report on the project portfolio (PMO); maintain strong stakeholder management with Business and Tech

Product Owner (in Finance)

• Define and communicate the product vision, objectives, and roadmap for Finance products
• Translate stakeholders’ needs into a prioritized, value‑based backlog; write clear user stories and acceptance criteria
• Make sprint and release decisions; partner with Tech, Data, and Finance SMEs to deliver increments that meet the definition of done
• Measure and improve outcomes (e.g., close duration, first‑time‑right rate, automation hours saved, data‑quality defects); track product KPIs

What’s in it for you?

Beyond the impact you will make in this high-visibility, global role, we offer you: plenty of growth opportunities and cross-brand career paths; a full-time (32-40 hours per week) position in a hybrid way of working: partly from home and partly from our office in Zaandam. You can look forward to a good work-life balance and the chance to work in an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome just the way you are.

• A gross annual salary between €78K to €88K including holiday pay based on full-time employment
• Attractive bonuses
• A first-rate pension plan
• 20 vacation days and the option to buy an additional 12.5 days from your personal ‘flex budget’
• Travel expenses or an NS travel card
• A laptop and smartphone

Requirements

Professional experience

• A completed university (WO) Master’s degree in Finance, Economics, or Business Administration, with at least 5 years of relevant work experience (e.g. in audit, as a Financial Controller, in FP&A, or M&A)
• A post-master qualification such as RA, RC, RE, or RO is a plus
• Fluency in Dutch and English, both written and spoken
• Strong analytical and financial skills; you can prepare the right analyses and recommendations based on financial reports and interpret them correctly
• An eye for detail—you are a perfectionist—and strong communication skills; you listen well, are persuasive, and solution-oriented
• Experience in stakeholder management; you communicate effectively at different levels of the organization and are organizationally sensitive

Aside from these hard skills, we think you should also bring some much-valued soft skills to the table:

• An engaging and credible presence
• Excellent written and verbal communication and stakeholder management skills
• Great analytical skills and the ability to work both strategically and hands-on
• Someone who brings a different perspective based on their own background and personal qualities, and who complement our team well.

What do we offer?

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

What do you bring?

• A positive attitude
• A service-oriented attitude
• A team player

Why Ahold Delhaize?

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

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.”
Monica Lefterica Capex Manager

Live wholeheartedly

“The support this company has always offered means the world to me."
Frederieke de Haas- van den Vlekkert Finance Director

Keep growing

“I feel the freedom to show initiative, propose changes and try new things. Having that freedom gave me wings to fly.”
Bram Koper Financial Controller Commerce