Manager Financial Reporting (IFRS)

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 drive to innovate
• High focus on quality

How you can
make a difference

Ahold Delhaize Global is seeking a dynamic and driven Manager of Financial Reporting to join our team. In this pivotal role, you'll play a key part in executing the activities of our Financial Reporting team and you’ll be one of the main drivers of quality of our internal and external reporting based on IFRS. Above all, you’re a team-player. You’re the liaison between our Financial Reporting team and several of our retail brands. You support the brands with reporting and accounting related matters and provide guidance on applying accounting standards. Next to this you coordinate our Interim Financial Statements together with a team consisting of Investor Relations, Business Planning & Performance and communications. Also, together with the financial reporting team, you will take a significant role in the preparation of our Annual Report, lead or support ad-hoc projects and maintain the Ahold Delhaize accounting policies.

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 16 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.

As Manager Financial Reporting, you will be joining the Ahold Delhaize Global Finance department, based in Zaandam. 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. As our new Manager Financial Reporting you will be part of the External Reporting team, that consists of seven collaborative, hardworking and fun colleagues. You will be reporting directly into the Vice-President External Reporting. With this, you will be part of the broader Ahold Delhaize Finance team, which is focused on creating value and driving growth by providing analytical insight, by partnering with our businesses to align performance with strategy and by embedding a proactive risk management culture throughout Ahold Delhaize.

Key responsibilities of your role

• Coordinate and prepare the quarterly interim financial statements.
• Liaise between the Financial Reporting team and a number of brands and help these brands with the application of various accounting matters
• Review analytical procedures on the quarterly reporting pack (IRP) submitted by the reporting entities. The focus of the analytical review is to ensure proper application of Ahold Delhaize GAAP and consistency of reporting across the Group.
• Maintain specialist knowledge of the accounting topics relevant to the Group and actively monitors any IFRS and accounting developments, with a focus on share-based payments and earnings per share.
• Conduct accounting literature research and document conclusions in a clear and concise manner.
• Prepare and review notes to the consolidated financial statements.
• Respond to ad-hoc analytical information requests from senior financial line management and other corporate center departments.
• Lead and/or support ad-hoc multidisciplinary Group Office Support projects, such as implementation of new accounting standards and transactions.

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 (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.

• A gross annual salary of 85,000 to 95,000 (on full-time employment), based on experience.
• Attractive bonuses
• 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

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

• Work well within a team, have integrity and humor and are hands-on.
• Combine a Master’s degree in Finance/ Business/ Economics with a minimum of 6-8 years of relevant work experience, e.g. in audit, coming from Big4.
• Have finished or are currently getting their RA/CPA or equivalent
• Bring a critical and analytical mindset, with an eye for detail and accuracy.
• Are fluent in English, language proficiency in Dutch and other languages relevant for the group’s operating area are a plus.
• Understand and apply knowledge to complex projects and processes.
• Work and communicate well with colleagues across all parts of the organization and with senior management.

Aside from these hard skills, we think you should also bring some much-valued soft skills to the table: an entrepreneurial mindset, a proactive approach and you are a team player. In addition to these, a good eye for detail, empathy, and enthusiasm will take you far.

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