Cost Controller - F&B

Muscat, Sultanate of Oman | Posted on 06/09/2026

• Work Experience 3-5 years in F&B cost control, preferably in restaurants, cafes, hotels, or catering operations.
• Job Opening Status Open
• City Muscat
• Country Sultanate of Oman

Monitor and control food, beverage, inventory, recipe, wastage, and operational costs to protect profitability and ensure strong financial discipline across F&B operations.

• Calculate and analyze food cost, beverage cost, packaging cost, wastage, consumption, and cost of sales.
• Prepare daily, weekly, and monthly cost reports with clear variance explanations and corrective actions.

• Supervise stock counts, spot checks, inventory reconciliations, transfers, returns, and expiry monitoring.
• Investigate variances between system stock, physical stock, purchases, sales, and production usage.
• Maintain standard recipes, portion costs, menu costing sheets, and selling price recommendations.
• Review menu profitability and highlight low-margin, high-wastage, or slow‑moving items.

• Audit receiving, issuing, storage, wastage, staff meals, complimentary items, and approval processes.
• Implement controls to reduce leakage, theft, over‑portioning, incorrect posting, and unauthorized adjustments.

• Work with chefs, procurement, stores, accounting, and operations to improve cost performance.

Bachelor degree or diploma in Accounting, Finance, Hospitality, Cost Control, or related field.

3-5 years in F&B cost control, preferably in restaurants, cafes, hotels, or catering operations.

• Inventory systems, POS, recipe costing, Excel, stock audits, variance analysis, menu engineering, purchasing controls.
• Analytical thinking, firmness, integrity, accuracy, investigation skills, communication, follow-up, cost discipline.