Manager BPP EU&I

How you can make a difference

At Ahold Delhaize, as EU&I BPP Finance Manager, you’ll lead the monthly close, forecasting process and strategic analyses in relation to our European & Indonesian brands, acting as a key connector between teams to ensure seamless planning and execution. This role is central to driving investment proposals and analyses, supporting top leadership with insights. You will report to the EU&I BPP Finance Director, who will help, lead and coach you in your process. If you thrive in dynamic environments and enjoy making an impact across multiple markets, this could be your next career move.

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

At the heart of the European Ahold Delhaize organization sits the European Finance team to drive support for the European team, that drives the alignment, consistency & clarity for our great local brands in areas of IT, shared service centers (Finance & HR), joint sourcing & the ever-changing ESG transition. The European finance team supports the brands on cross-functional projects in the past mentioned areas and drives the overall European portfolio to ensure that we deliver to Europe.

The EU&I BPP Finance Manager leads the financial close process, preliminary close, period review preparation, EU review preparations & forecast process from preliminary submission to presentation. To create a strong connection between the brands to ensure that we follow our overall planning process & timelines. The role is a point of contact between the brands and guides the brand teams in the quarter close deliverables (for AD group & IR) and has a major focus on our investment process and drives the Investment proposal & review process (PIR).

The Manager BPP EU&I is responsible for monthly calls, building and presenting the monthly decks for the EU Management and Executive Committee to discuss performance, budgets, forecasts, and planning. This means the position is directly engaged with the top leadership of the company. This makes the role particularly exciting: seeing everything, building a strong understanding of success drivers, and being involved across the board.

In addition, there are various ad hoc projects, for example on cash flow, e-commerce, potential new investments, or due to findings in business performance that call for additional analyses. Overall, an inquisitive mindset and self-starting attitude are crucial.

Key responsibilities of your role

• Team management of analyst & Finance trainee
• Owner of quarterly deliverables; from AD group & Investor Relations supported by Finance Analyst
• Reporting owner ranging from Business Financial Review document to period decks and financial decks – owns final deck – update of slides supported by Finance analyst & Finance Trainee
• Owns the investment proposal process for Europe ranging from monthly approval process to PIR, LAR, etc. Owns the improvements within the process
• Owner of GMIP process including coordination with brands and feedback after every planning cycle based on memo Group
• Drives new initiatives to enhance weekly insights, forecast deck & period deck. For instance, weekly insights into key retail KPI’s (traffic average basket, etc. summarized from brands) (Fin. Director supports where needed and initiates new ideas)
• Ad hoc questions & relationship with AD group team members
• Support team-to-team improvement initiatives led by the Finance Director

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 hybrid way of working (partly from home and partly from our office in Zaandam), and the opportunity to influence leadership decisions on a global scale. 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.

• 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

• 6+ years of progressive experience in finance
• Experience working in a multinational company (Group or subsidiary) or Big 4
• Expert level in Excel and strong PowerPoint skills
• Experience leading timelines and milestones in complex business environments

Aside from these hard skills, we think you should also bring some much-valued soft skills to the table: an engaging and credible presence, able to quickly build rapport with senior leaders, with strong stakeholder management, analytical skills, ability to think outside of the box and eagerness to learn new things.

Meet your colleagues

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