Senior Internal Auditor (Manager Level 1)

What are you looking for?

What do we offer?

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

What do you bring?

• A positive attitude
• A healthy dose of energy
• A team player

Why Ahold Delhaize

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

How you can make a difference

Why is this job so incredibly exciting and great that anyone would want to leave their current position for it? The Ahold Delhaize Internal Audit team purpose is that we Engage in Meaningful Change, and with that we are able to have an impact on the organization and its success.

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

As Senior Internal Auditor, you will be joining our Global Internal Audit team department.

In the Finance department, our goal is rather straightforward: we take care of the finances for the organization and our entire family of 17 global brands. The department spans four sub-departments: Tax and Accounting; Business Planning and Performance; Investor Relations; and Treasury and Insurance. 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.

You will be joining the Global Internal Audit team, consisting of 42 colleagues. Our goal is rather straightforward: we perform audits across Ahold Delhaize’s Global Office and the US and European brands. The impact on the organization is tangible: we act as the third line of defense, performing approximately 70 audit engagements globally per year driving innovation and change in different domains of the company. Our Internal Audit team is filled with smart, high-performing professionals, with (audit and non-audit) who enjoy pioneering and taking ownership of their work.

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 continuously support you and help you build on your talents and skills for the future.

Key responsibilities of your role

You will join a dynamic, high-performing audit team who will encourage you to grow professionally and personally. You will work with leaders across all facets of our organization to identify areas of risk, make valuable recommendations and influence positive change; all to help our Company achieve our purpose ~ inspiring everyone to eat and live better, for a healthier future for people and planet.

Together with the team you are responsible for analyzing and assessing risks. Subsequently, you share the observations with management in order to define next steps together. Every audit is unique, as you will work on different topics within different European brands and changing audit teams.

The team’s priorities are focused on helping our business partners achieve their goals and objectives by managing risk through:

• Maintaining proactive relationships with business management teams to stay in-sync with an everchanging business environment and transformation projects (e.g., mechanization implementations, ERP implementation)
• Designing and executing audit programs covering operational, technology, compliance, and financial risks, targeting high-risk areas in the company’s processes, from sourcing to logistic, but also IT General controls
• Creating impactful recommendations to assist management in better managing their risks
• Communicating audit results to senior leaders
• Attending learning programs, training and networking sessions while preparing yourself to become a future leader in our organization

What is 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 (we ask you to spend at least 50% of your working time at the office); 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 up to €95K including holiday allowance, 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

Of course, we will offer you great pay and benefits, but there is so much more:

• A great work-life balance, where healthy co-workers are of great interest to us.
• A challenging role within a multidisciplinary team in a very dynamic environment.
• The opportunity to strengthen professional competencies and develop personal networks.
• Future career opportunities across our organization (inside or outside Ahold Delhaize Internal Audit).

Requirements

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

A sharp, critical thinker who thrives in a team environment and enjoys collaborating. You use independent and creative thought to obtain information, analyze complex situations and solve problems. You excel in and enjoy communicating and you listen carefully to understand. You embrace technology and can adapt and thrive in a fast-paced, changing environment.

• Experience within a large and complex organizational structure
• Experience in or a clear passion for retail.

You’ll need to have:

• a Masters’ degree. Any complementary certifications are a plus.
• A minimum of three to eight years of audit work experience. Experience within Audit at a Big Four company is a plus, but not required.
• Project management skills – work in and/or lead teams to effectively perform work and prioritize assignments within challenging deadlines.
• Business Acumen – the ability to understand organizational processes and objectives as well as obtain organizational insight through effective relationships.
• Aptitude and desire to understand how technology (e.g., data analytics, general IT processes, robotic process automation, machine learning) impacts business processes
• Already possess or have a willingness to gain credentials in your field – CIA, CISA.
• The ability to communicate fluent in English (and preferably one of the following: Dutch, Greek, Serbian, Czech, Romanian or French) and the willingness to travel, including international travel (up to max. 20% of the time)

The ideal candidate will also have:

• Influence/Persuasion – the ability to collaborate with others to remove organizational barriers and use persuasive techniques to reach consensus
• Experience in the field of auditing technology control disciplines such as robotic process automation, security, application development, change management and computer operations
• Experience in use of data analytics and utilization of tools such as PowerBI, Alteryx, Microsoft Access, or other related data analytics tools

Apply now!

Are you keen to join the Internal Audit 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. Apply now via the button on this page, or feel free to contact Peter Dirks via peter.dirks@ah.nl if you have any questions.

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.” Colleague

Live wholeheartedly

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

Keep growing

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