Director II Accounting Governance, Controls, Compliance

Introduction

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

The Director II leads the accounting governance and financial and ESG control ownership activities for ADUSA. Through its close line of sight to daily financial operations and accounting practices across the organization, this role helps promote and support a well governed, well controlled financial function. The Director partners with Brand Finance, Risk & Controls, Internal Audit, Health & Sustainability and other leaders to ensure accounting and reporting policies, process controls, and governance standards are consistently applied and regularly updated.

With a three-lines of defense model to manage risk, this position oversees the financial control framework from a first line governance and control ownership perspective, helping ensure controls remain relevant, appropriately designed, and clearly understood by process and control owners. Second line control assurance, testing, and independent monitoring are the responsibility of the Risk & Controls function, and this role maintains close partnership with them to ensure alignment on standards, risk themes, and emerging requirements.

The Director ensures financial governance requirements are embedded in Finance transformation initiatives, including SAP enhancements and process modernization efforts, leveraging its operational insight to ensure accounting and control considerations are incorporated early and effectively. Additionally, this role leads accounting policy development, finance and vendor training, governance guidance, and audit readiness activities—further strengthening financial discipline and supporting a resilient, well governed financial environment.

• Serve as the primary strategic leader for Accounting Governance, Controls & Compliance, advising ADUSA Finance, Group, and IT on enterprise wide risk, controls, and policy standards.
• Establish and continuously mature the governance model for Process narratives, workflows and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) across on shore and off shore entities, ensuring consistency, control adherence, and comprehensive end to end documentation.
• Provide strategic leadership to a team of subject matter experts, setting priorities, enabling capability development, and ensuring alignment to business objectives and regulatory requirements.
• Establish and cultivate relationships with key business stakeholders to facilitate the implementation of an effective governance framework and reporting structure.
• Lead 3rd party vendor governance routines, including monthly/quarterly business reviews, performance scorecards, issue escalation protocols, and continuous improvement planning. Partner closely with Finance leaders to ensure services meet operational needs.
• Develop structured change plans - including communication, training, stakeholder engagement, and adoption roadmaps - to ensure smooth transitions and successful implementation.

• Govern ADUSA's internal control framework, ensuring key controls remain current, responsive to emerging risks, and consistently executed across Brands and service providers.
• Oversee SAP financial system role-based access governance, enforcing global standards, ensuring data protection, and monitoring access integrity across business units.
• Support ADUSA Finance in understanding impacts of new systems (accounting applications, reporting tools, automation, etc.) to financial processes.
• Lead enterprise-wide evaluation of finance operating policies, system controls, and operational effectiveness using metrics and performance insights to continually strengthen internal controls and service delivery.

• Build and oversee the…