Ahold Delhaize is one of the world's largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and e-Commerce. Its family of great, local brands serves more than 50 million customers each week in Europe, the United States and Indonesia. Together, these brands employ more than 420,000 associates in more than 7,000 grocery and specialty stores. Our Global Support Office (GSO) is based in Zaandam in the Netherlands, but GSO associates also work in all the countries we serve. This team supports all our great local brands in finance, HR, IT, legal, communications, sustainable retailing, and other key functions. . 

Senior Internal Auditor

What you’ll be doing

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.  

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.
• 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.

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 all over the world, we aim to make a meaningful difference in the lives of our customers, our people and the world around us. We offer a highly dynamic, international work environment in which our employees thrive 

Your new work environment

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 finance professionals who enjoy pioneering and taking ownership of their work.

Key responsibilities for your role

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

• 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.

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree (master is preferred) and relevant business experience.
• A minimum of five years of audit work experience. Experience within Audit at a Big Four company is a plus, but not required.
• Critical thinking skills – use independent thought to obtain information and analyze complex situations and intrinsic curiosity.
• Effective communication skills – convey information and ideas concisely, both verbally and in writing.
• 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 – Masters, CPA, CIA, CISA.
• Ability to travel within the US 10%.

 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

What we offer

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).

Apply now!
Are you keen to join the 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 Katie Hillman via katie.hillman@adusa.com 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.

The Group sets global strategies frameworks, facilitates the sharing of best practice and encourages economies of scale. Great examples include sharing technology and digital know-how, so we can continue to lead in online and in-store retailing, setting global targets for healthy and sustainable products-including reducing food waste, use of plastics and making our products healthier to use and eat, and championing development for our future leaders-from learning about the digital mindset to leading our stores of the future. 

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