F&B Controller

Role overview

Cost and inventory control

• Monitor food and beverage costs, consumption, wastage, and related operating expenses.
• Conduct physical stock counts and reconcile inventory with system records.
• Track opening stock, purchases, transfers, consumption, and closing stock; investigate variances.
• Monitor cost percentages and identify unusual movements, losses, or potential leakages.

Verification and audits

• Track wastage, spoilage, breakage, complimentary items, staff meals, and internal consumption.
• Verify goods receipt notes, purchase invoices, stock transfers, and issue records.
• Audit inventory and processes across outlets, kitchens, bars, and stores.

Operational controls and reporting

• Work with kitchen and F&B teams on standard recipes, portion sizes, and yield standards.
• Prepare cost-control, stock-reconciliation, and variance reports for management.
• Identify over-portioning, pilferage, and inefficient consumption; recommend corrective actions.
• Support SOPs for stock handling, storage, issue, transfer, and cost control.
• Coordinate stock levels with Procurement and Stores and follow FIFO/FEFO practices.
• Assist with menu and recipe costing, selling-price margins, and month-end stock closing.

Requirements

• Requires 1–3 years in F&B cost control, inventory control, or hospitality finance operations.
• Requires understanding of F&B inventory, food and beverage cost, stock reconciliation, and variance analysis.
• Requires proficiency in MS Excel or Google Sheets.
• POS, inventory, or hospitality management system experience is preferred.
• Requires analytical skills, attention to detail, discrepancy investigation, and comfort conducting operational audits.

Preferred industry experience

• Preferred backgrounds include hotels, restaurants, breweries, pubs, QSRs, cloud kitchens, and large-format entertainment and F&B establishments.

Pay and benefits

• Pay starts at ₹30,000 per month.
• Benefits include food, paid sick time, and Provident Fund.

Workplace

• Work location is in person in Bangalore.