Analyst Reporting

Category/Area of Expertise: Accounting/Finance
Job Requisition: 471678
Address: USA-NC-Salisbury-2085 Harrison Road
Store Code: Finance Data, Reporting & Analytics (5133636)

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

This position will drive and lead the management of Finance data, management and operational reporting, making well thought-out decisions on complex or ambiguous issues. This position works cross functionally with all brand finance, PDL finance, RBS finance and Supply Chain finance with reporting and analytics responsibilities. This position requires focus on data and reporting strategy, and data management, as well as a familiarity with business finance and accounting functions in order to provide support for projects, programs, and operations. This role will also provide thought sharing at a global level. As a key member of the Finance Data Management Center of Excellence (COE), this position leads and/or participates in testing, implementation and on-going management of data and reporting related systems and capabilities such SAP S/4, BPC, Margin Analysis, Azure Data Lake, Power BI, Microsoft Office, VBA, testing error resolution, etc. In addition, this position will support FP&A, accounting, brand finance, support company finance and operations to include reporting definitions and implementation requirements, analyzing data/report requirements, monitoring data quality, assisting in cataloging data reporting elements, defining business terms, assisting of and building out Power BI reporting and dashboards for consumption of all levels of the business. etc. Decisions influence the business effectiveness toward the overall planning, scheduling, and deliverables of the function and overall roadmap. Poor decisions have an impact on medium and high term business goals. Effective internal and external interactions, secured through strong influencing skills, are an important link in the communication chain of the business unit and contribute to the effective implementation of major projects and/or functional initiatives.

Our flexible/hybrid work schedule includes 3 in-person days at one of our core locatons and 2 remote days. Or core office locations are Quincy, MA - Salisbury, NC - Carlisle, PA

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis

Principle Duties and Responsibilities

• Develops and executes broad reaching data reporting management policies and procedures for review by senior leadership.
• Decisions influence the team's effectiveness toward the overall planning, scheduling, and deliverables of the function and overall roadmap. Poor decisions have an impact on medium and high term business goals. Effective internal and external interactions, secured through strong influencing skills, are an important link in the communication chain of the business unit and contribute to the effective implementation of major projects and/or functional initiatives.
• Key contributor to drive the overall Finance roadmap.
• Leads education and training related to data and reporting management to business partners and end users.
• Drives and leads reporting related system implementation and management of data/reporting related systems, providing creative and innovative solutions to problems that arise.
• Works with governance groups to oversee the build and compliance of the data management related reporting environment, including data sources, security and metadata ensuring data integrity.
• Applies expertise and core competencies gathered from major projects and functional experience to solve problems for data quality programs through error detection and correction, process improvements and/or process design strategies.
• Leads the development and on-going management of the global finance reporting process, including creation and updates of reports using various systems.
• Designs, implements and manages end-to-end data issue management process that includes the identification, tracking and management of critical data/reporting issues.

• BA/BS degree in business or related field
• PMP preferred, but not required
• Understanding of finance and accounting terminology and processes
• Understanding of financial reporting (i.e. P&Ls, income statements, balance sheets, etc)
• Experience in finance, AR/collections, AP and/or procurement background helpful
• Experience in SAP S/4, BPC and Margin Analysis is preferred
• Experience creating reporting in Power BI is preferred
• Understanding of stores and/or brand operations is helpful
• Familiarity with reporting and analytic tools (i.e. Business Objects, PowerBI, Tableau, etc.)
• Familiarity with legacy and modern data integration tools and methods (i.e. Mulsoft, Kafka, etc.)
• Experience using ERP systems such as Oracle, SAP, Infor, etc.
• Travel 15%