Sr. F&B Cost Controller

Role Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor Central Kitchen production, raw material consumption, production quantities, yields, and transfers to outlets.
• Reconcile production and consumption against approved recipes, standard quantities, and expected yields.
• Calculate actual versus theoretical food cost and investigate significant operational variances.
• Maintain recipe costing, portion sizes, yields, standard costs, and menu item costing in the relevant systems.
• Monitor wastage, spoilage, production losses, expired items, staff meal costs, and recipe compliance.
• Reconcile purchases, transfers, consumption, and closing inventory while supervising physical counts.
• Monitor purchase price variances and review receiving, storage, issuance, and transfer controls.
• Identify cost leakages and recommend corrective actions for overproduction, wastage, abnormal consumption, and poor yields.
• Prepare daily, weekly, and monthly food cost, inventory, and variance reports.
• Work with Culinary, Operations, Purchasing, Warehouse, and Finance teams on cost-control issues.
• Support menu development with recipe costing, profitability analysis, pricing recommendations, and menu engineering.
• Improve cost-control procedures, reporting, and operational controls, escalating significant issues to Finance Management.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Hospitality Management, or a related field.
• At least five years of F&B cost control experience, preferably in restaurant groups, hotels, catering, or Central Kitchen environments.
• Hands-on Central Kitchen production and food cost control experience.
• Knowledge of recipe costing, yields, portions, inventory, production reconciliation, wastage, staff meal costing, and variance analysis.
• Advanced Excel and reporting skills, plus experience with restaurant POS, inventory management, and ERP systems.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, coordination, and attention-to-detail abilities.
• Ability to work independently, take ownership, investigate discrepancies, and drive improvements.
• Arabic language skills are advantageous.

Compensation

• Pay is QAR 4,500 per month.

Workplace

• Work location is in person.