Cost Controller

Key Responsibilities

• Control and verify all receiving of food, beverage, and other inventory items, ensuring quantities and specifications match 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.
• Work closely with Procurement, Finance, Restaurant Management, and Operations to resolve inventory and costing discrepancies.
• Prepare regular inventory, variance, food-cost, and management reports.
• Maintain proper documentation and records to support internal controls and audits.
• Assist management in implementing measures to reduce food costs, wastage, stock losses, and unnecessary purchasing.
• Conduct periodic spot checks and surprise stock counts where required.

Independence & Internal Control

The Cost Controller must operate independently from the kitchen function.

The position should provide an objective and independent review of inventory and food-cost performance. The Head Chef and kitchen team should not be responsible for independently verifying or approving their own inventory results, consumption figures, or food-cost performance.

The Cost Controller will therefore be expected to independently verify stock, analyse variances, and report findings directly to the appropriate 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

The ideal candidate should be someone who is hands-on, analytical, independent, and commercially aware, with practical restaurant cost-control experience rather than purely accounting or warehouse experience.

Experience covering three or more restaurant outlets and familiarity with restaurant operating systems will be a strong advantage.

Key Performance Areas

The successful candidate will be measured on:

• 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

Pay: QAR5,000.00 - QAR6,000.00 per month

Work Location: In person