Specialist ESG Controller

How you can make a difference

As Specialist ESG Controller, you’ll be responsible for periodical reporting and managing delivery of inputs for specific sustainability KPIs. As part of the ESG controlling team, you are responsible for the end-to-end reporting process. The Specialist ESG Controller ensures that the reporting is accurate and complete and ensures that reporting processes run smoothly by actively seeking improvement opportunities

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 17 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.

Your new work environment

The Environmental, social and governance (ESG) area reflects Business strategy, Data creation, collection and Reporting in all Sustainability topics relevant for Ahold Delhaize. The Specialist ESG Controller at Ahold Delhaize is responsible for accurate and complete reporting of the ESG KPI’s and key measurement indicators (STI) such as food waste, healthy sales, plastic packaging, and carbon emissions, among other topics.

ESG actuals reporting and performance management is a dynamic and growing topic in Ahold Delhaize. Due to new regulatory requirements and internal ambitions to improve reporting, there is a high level of management change. As ESG topics are getting more integrated into the core of our business practices, the reporting function is constantly developing.

For newly added KPIs, the Specialist ESG Controller sets report requirements and implements reporting processes in close collaboration with data teams, business process Improvement teams, and IT. The Specialist ESG Controller is also responsible for creating awareness about changing definitions and additional ESG KPI’s within the brands. This means in practice to be closely connected to the EU and Group ESG teams and reviewing the Accounting Manual update processes.

The Specialist ESG Controller is part of Business Service Finance (BSF) and will directly report to EU ESG Reporting Manager. Main stakeholders are Finance Business Planning & Performance (BPP), Business Process Improvement (BPI), Business controllers and Risk & Control (R&C) working on ESG, as well as Health & Sustainability (H&S) and other Business owners of ESG KPI’s.

Cooperation across all departments within company with all data collectors, support on data gathering as needed and ensure the proper understanding of organizational definitions. Communication with internal stakeholders, who provide the required data to report both externally (in the annual report via group) and internally (in management information).

 Key responsibilities of your role

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

• Oversees ESG data gathering processes and ensure consistency and quality of this data by reviewing data under supervision of the Manager ESG Control
• Responsibility for final submission of data to the group in Sustain and ensure timely, accurate and complete reporting, with robust data
• Performing of analytical reviews, such as variance analyses and trends comparision
• Prepare internal reporting toAhold Delhaize leadership and further develop period reporting based on Business requirements
• Collaborate with RPA & Analytics teams to build (Power BI) dashboards for ESG KPI’s
• Ensure proper audit evidence on reporting is kept, data to auditors are delivered on time and that key controls are embedded within reporting processes to cover risks
• Continuous improvement of ESG reporting and realization of Limited Assurance roadmap
• Drive implementation for new reporting KPIs
• Continiously improve reporting processes to make them more efficient and robust
• Deliver process documentation, such as narratives and flowcharts
• Ensure reporting structure and KPI ownership (e.g. data contribution and data validation roles in Enablon) are set up and executed
• Inform and explain the deadline and changes in reporting definitions based on GSO instructions
• Challenging the users with the indicators to ensure better quality