Financial Controller

What are you looking for?

What do we offer?

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

What do you bring?

• A healthy dose of energy
• A can-do mentality
• Business awareness

Why Ahold Delhaize

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

How you can
make a difference

As Financial Controller EU you are responsible for the financial control of the central EU entities. You provide insights in the financial figures of the EU entities and make sure that they are accurate and complete. You have a continuous drive to set up seamless financial processes. You’ll be working together with colleagues who have a broad range of professional experience in an international global finance environment.

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 19 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

As Financial Controller EU, you’ll be joining the Finance team at European Business Services (EBS), a shared services organization dedicated to helping Ahold Delhaize’s great European brands achieve their strategic goals. The impact on the organization is tangible: we provide insights that enable our colleagues to offer the right guidance and targets for the business, and drive innovation and change in different domains of the company. All our Finance teams are filled with smart, high-performing finance professionals who enjoy pioneering and taking ownership of their work.

EU Financial Control focuses on period and quarterly reporting and closing procedures. Key is to deliver valuable financial insights to European management and EU business control based on complete and accurate financial accounting processes. You will be responsible for an entity focusing on EU wide topics like IT and vendor allowances. We are about to set new roles and responsibilities for the financial processes of this entity and the financial controller will be in the lead implementing this.

You will be given the freedom and responsibility to take ownership of your work and broaden your horizons by working together with knowledgeable colleagues from different countries who have an abundance of expertise in many areas. We will continually invest in you and help you build on your talents and skills for the future.

Key responsibilities of your role

Your role is highly diverse and encompasses various responsibilities. Here are the key ones:

• You are responsible for timely periodic closing of the EU entities;
• You make sure that the financial figures (balances sheet and P&L) of the EU entities are accurate and complete;
• You coordinate and discuss results with business controllers responsible for the EU entities;
• You coordinate with our outsourcing partner for accounting services and assures service levels are;
• You are proactive in bringing continuous improvement;
• You participate in EU projects on streamlining, standardization and automation of our financial processes and reporting;
• You coordinate audits for EU entities with external auditor and tax department and makes sure audits are timely completed;

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; a hybrid working model; 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 of €75,000 to €85,000 based on full-time employment, depending on experience;
• 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

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

• Have a university degree in business studies or business economics, preferably combined with a degree in controlling or accounting (RC, RA, ACCA, CPA or equivalent);
• Able to collaborate across boundaries (functions, brands, and geographies) to build strategic relationships and achieve common goals;
• At least 6 years’ experience in Finance, preferably in Audit, Accounting or Financial Control;
• Excellent English communication skills (verbal and written);

Aside from these hard skills, we think you should also bring some much-valued soft skills to the table: the ability to impact and influence stakeholders (both internal and external) and having a drive for change and innovation.

Apply now!

Are you keen to join the EU Financial Control team? Even if you don’t tick all the boxes, but you still believe you have the personality and skills that make you a suitable candidate, we strongly encourage you to reach out to us.

At Ahold Delhaize and our local brands, we broadly define diversity as being inclusive of thoughts and skills, generational differences, LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disabilities, nationalities and more, and we accept all people for who they are.

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.”
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