Cost Controller
Role Overview
Cost Controller responsible for independent inventory and food-cost control across three restaurants.
Position operates independently from the kitchen function and reports findings to management/finance authority.
Hands-on, analytical, independent, and commercially aware role focused on practical restaurant cost control.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role Overview
Cost Controller responsible for independent inventory and food-cost control across three restaurants.
Position operates independently from the kitchen function and reports findings to management/finance authority.
Hands-on, analytical, independent, and commercially aware role focused on practical restaurant cost control.
Key Responsibilities
- Control and verify all receiving of food, beverage, and other inventory items against purchase orders and invoices.
- Conduct regular physical inventory and stock counts across all three restaurants.
- Reconcile physical stock against system quantities and investigate discrepancies.
- Monitor stock variances, shortages, overages, and unusual movements and report findings to management.
- Maintain and review recipe costing, ensuring recipes, yields, portions, and ingredient costs are accurate and updated.
- Prepare and analyse food-cost reports and monitor food-cost percentages against targets.
- Analyse purchase-price variances and identify significant changes in supplier pricing.
- Monitor and document transfers between outlets, ensuring all movements are properly recorded in the system.
- Analyse wastage, spoilage, staff meals, complimentary items, and other stock adjustments.
- Monitor theoretical versus actual consumption and investigate significant variances.
- Review inventory movements and identify potential control weaknesses, errors, or irregularities.
- Ensure all inventory transactions are accurately recorded in the restaurant operating/POS system.
Independence & Internal Control
Cost Controller must operate independently from the kitchen function.
Position provides objective and independent review of inventory and food-cost performance.
Head Chef and kitchen team should not independently verify or approve their own inventory results, consumption figures, or food-cost performance.
Cost Controller independently verifies stock, analyses variances, and reports findings directly to management/finance authority.
Required Qualifications & Experience
- Diploma or Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Cost Control, or a related field is preferred.
- Minimum 3-5 years' relevant experience in restaurant/F&B cost control or inventory control.
- Experience managing inventory and food costs for multiple restaurant outlets is highly preferred.
- Strong practical knowledge of restaurant inventory/POS operating systems.
- Experience with recipe costing, food-cost analysis, stock reconciliation, and variance analysis.
- Good knowledge of purchasing, receiving, stock movement, and inventory procedures.
- Strong Excel skills and ability to prepare and analyse reports.
- Excellent numerical and analytical skills.
- High attention to detail and accuracy.
- Strong communication and reporting skills.
- Ability to work independently and challenge discrepancies professionally.
- High level of integrity and confidentiality.
Preferred Candidate Profile
- Ideal candidate is hands-on, analytical, independent, and commercially aware.
- Practical restaurant cost-control experience preferred over purely accounting or warehouse experience.
- Experience covering three or more restaurant outlets and familiarity with restaurant operating systems is a strong advantage.
Key Performance Areas
Accuracy of inventory records.
Timely completion of stock counts.
Reduction and control of unexplained stock variances.
Accuracy of recipe costing.
Food-cost monitoring and reporting.
Control of wastage and stock losses.
Accuracy of inter-outlet transfers.
Identification of theoretical versus actual consumption variances.
Timely and accurate management reporting.
Compliance with inventory control procedures.
Compensation
- Pay: QAR 5,000.00 - QAR 6,000.00 per month.
Work Location
- Work Location: In person.
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