Senior Internal Auditor

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 Suppport 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, sutainable retailing and other key functions. 

Senior Specialist IT Internal Auditor

What you’ll be doing ...

You’ll 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 ~ Eat Well, Save Time, Live Better.  

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 and systems;
• Creating impactful recommendations to assist management in better managing their risks;
• Communicating audit results to senior leaders; and
• Attending learning programs, training and networking sessions while preparing yourself to become a future leader in our organization.

About the job....
In your role as Senior Specialist IT Auditor, you will have a unique opportunity to see and understand many different areas of our company, including the latest digital and technology related developments and projects (e.g., Cloud Transformation, DevSecOps, Automation, Data lakes). You will be part of a multidisciplinary team with different backgrounds (audit and non-audit) and not only perform IT audits, but also perform operational audits. Together with the team you are responsible for analyzing and assessing risk management within a business unit. 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 US brands and changing audit teams.

To support Ahold Delhaize in their digital journey, Internal Audit is developing a team with digital knowledge and capabilities as we implement a more data driven, and technology enabled audit life cycle. We are looking for a Senior Specialist IT auditor who can support us and Ahold Delhaize in this digital transformation.

What we’re looking for ...

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.

You’ll need to have:

• Critical thinking skills – use independent thought to obtain information and analyze complex situations
• 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
• Aptitude and desire to understand how technology (i.e., data analytics, general IT processes, robotic process automation, machine learning, etc.) impacts business processes
• 4-6 years’ experience in a professional work environment with specific knowledge of information security, cloud security, or agile software development (DevSecOps);
• Bachelor’s degree and relevant business experience in computer science / information technology
• Already possess or have a willingness to gain credentials in your field – Masters, CPA, CISA, CIA, CISSP AZ-500 / OSCP / GPEN; 
• Ability to travel within the US 10-20%

 The ideal candidate will also have:

• Business Acumen – the ability to understand organizational processes and objectives as well as obtain organizational insight through effective relationships 
• Influence/Persuasion – the ability to collaborate with others to remove organizational barriers and use persuasive techniques to reach consensus
• 5+ years of audit or IT work experience including experience in a Big 4 Accounting firm
• 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 ACL, Tableau, Alteryx, Microsoft Access, Power BI, or other related data analytics tools
• Experience in and/or passion for retail

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 overtime is not something we set as the standard and 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).

When you join Ahold Delhaize …

You’ll be part of an organization that values courage, integrity, teamwork, care and humor. Because millions around the globe turn to us daily for their local needs, few are better positioned than Ahold Delhaize to make a positive difference to their well-being. Their needs and wants are diverse. But we believe there are three things everyone deserves from us: Eat well. Save time. Live better. These are words to live by and that’s why they are the words of our Company purpose.

If you believe in and can see yourself working for a purpose-driven organization, consider joining our team and helping us make a difference.

The GSO 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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We are an equal opportunity employer. We comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to sex, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, marital status (including civil unions), military service, veteran status, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions), genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, legally recognized disability, domestic violence victim status or any other characteristic protected by law.