Analyst III Finance Ops - Close Cash & AP

Category/Area of Expertise: Accounting/Finance
Job Requisition: 454804
Address: USA-NC-Salisbury-2085 Harrison Road
Store Code: Sales,Cash Management & Treasury (5148599)

Ahold Delhaize USA, a division of global food retailer Ahold Delhaize, is part of the U.S. family of brands, which includes five leading omnichannel grocery brands - Food Lion, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop & Shop. Our associates support the brands with a wide range of services, including Finance, Legal, Sustainability, Commercial, Digital and E-commerce, Technology and more.

Position Summary:

The overall objective of this role is to drive financial performance by providing research, analytics, and recommendations on complex business modeling, non-standard reporting, and impacts of changing accounting principles to leadership. This position requires vast expertise in cash management principles, such as accounting analysis & reporting, accounting controls & audit and payment process governance.

• Research, analyze, reconcile, audit and summarize financial data for use by management in making finance decisions and resolve accounting discrepancies.
• Report Cash and Payment exceptions that occur within the organization, calculate accruals using business knowledge and extrapolations of historical data or future projections based on probability.
• Leads period close activities such as reconciliations and journal entries for assigned discipline maintaining current knowledge of specialize accounting and/or current tax laws and governmental regulations.
• Identifies and assesses financial variances based on knowledge and expertise providing insight and advice for senior management and other end users regarding accounting issues that arise from reconciliation or reported financial results.
• Compiles accurate period, quarterly, and annual reports ensuring accuracy of financial statements, and completes requests for non-standard reports.
• Serves as a technical resource during internal and external audit processes.
• Interactions are internal and external to the company at all levels and pertain to project / functional activities. Independently gains cooperation and commitment through personal persuasiveness.
• Partner with Store Operations, Retail Services, Banking, Information Technology, and all other business partners to identify and solve complex business issues
• Answer Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet questions for assigned accounts and ensure completion of period-end checklist to ensure accurate reporting of income and receivables in the company's financial statements
• Responsible for ensuring the accounting transactions required to adequately report and manage GL and Bank related accounts in a timely and accurate manner, performing account analysis, and reconciliations of general ledger accounts.
• Point of contact for 3rd party vendor relations for outsourced functions and drives and leads special projects for the department.
• Additional job duties may be assigned as needed to meet the needs of the business and support our Values.

• 4-5 years of mostly relevant experience
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to communicate to all levels of management and outside vendors
• Ability to multitask several projects
• Strong organizational skills
• Customer-centric
• Strong Analytical skills
• Microsoft Excel
• Attention to detail

• General Accounting knowledge required
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Suite; advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel
• SAP S4/Hanna