Cost Controller
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About the Role
Cloud Eats kitchen is seeking a Cost Controller to monitor and control food, beverage, and packaging costs across multiple outlets. The role involves recipe costing, stock control, variance analysis, and reporting.
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Responsibilities
- Monitor and control food cost, beverage cost, packaging cost, and kitchen/operational expenses across all outlets/brands/kitchen operations
- Prepare and maintain recipe costing, menu costing, and selling price analysis to ensure profitability
- Conduct regular stock counts, inventory reconciliation, and variance analysis for food, beverages, packaging, and other consumables
- Review daily, weekly, and monthly consumption reports and identify unusual variances, wastage, pilferage, or over usage
- Ensure all stock movements, transfers, purchases, and wastage are properly recorded and supported by documentation
- Work closely with kitchen, operations, stores, and procurement teams to control costs and improve stock management practices
- Verify supplier invoices, purchase prices, and cost records to ensure accuracy and compliance with approved rates
- Prepare cost reports, margin analysis, and management summaries for decision making
- Support month end closing by providing stock valuation, cost reports, and reconciliation data
- Ensure compliance with internal controls, SOPs, and company cost control procedures
Requirements
- Strong knowledge of food cost control, inventory management, and stock reconciliation
- Experience in recipe costing, menu costing, and variance analysis
- Good understanding of hospitality, restaurant, catering, or cloud kitchen operations
- Strong analytical, reporting, and attention to detail skills
- Proficiency in Excel and inventory/ERP systems
- 3–5 years of experience in cost control, inventory control, or finance operations within hospitality, F&B, catering, restaurant, or cloud kitchen businesses
- Degree or diploma in Accounting, Finance, Hospitality Management, or related field preferred
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Role Purpose
- The Cost Controller is responsible for monitoring, analyzing, and controlling food cost, beverage cost, packaging cost, and other operational expenses across the business.
- The role ensures accurate stock control, recipe costing, variance analysis, wastage monitoring, and proper reporting to support management in maintaining profitability and cost efficiency.
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor and control food cost, beverage cost, packaging cost, and kitchen/operational expenses across all outlets / brands / kitchen operations.
- Prepare and maintain recipe costing, menu costing, and selling price analysis to ensure profitability.
- Conduct regular stock counts, inventory reconciliation, and variance analysis for food, beverages, packaging, and other consumables.
- Review daily, weekly, and monthly consumption reports and identify unusual variances, wastage, pilferage, or over usage.
- Ensure all stock movements, transfers, purchases, and wastage are properly recorded and supported by documentation.
- Work closely with kitchen, operations, stores, and procurement teams to control costs and improve stock management practices.
- Verify supplier invoices, purchase prices, and cost records to ensure accuracy and compliance with approved rates.
- Prepare cost reports, margin analysis, and management summaries for decision making.
- Support month end closing by providing stock valuation, cost reports, and reconciliation data.
- Ensure compliance with internal controls, SOPs, and company cost control procedures.
Candidate Profile
- Strong knowledge of food cost control, inventory management, and stock reconciliation
- Experience in recipe costing, menu costing, and variance analysis
- Good understanding of hospitality, restaurant, catering, or cloud kitchen operations
- Strong analytical, reporting, and attention to detail skills
- Proficiency in Excel and inventory / ERP systems
Preferred Experience
- 3–5 years of experience in cost control, inventory control, or finance operations within hospitality, F&B, catering, restaurant, or cloud kitchen businesses
- Experience handling food cost and stock control in multi brand or high volume operations preferred
- Degree or diploma in Accounting, Finance, Hospitality Management, or related field preferred
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