Position: F&B; Controller / Food & Beverage Cost Controller

Department: Food & Beverage Cost Controlls

Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra

Employment Type: Full-Time

Reporting To: F&B; Controlls Manager

About the Role:

Pebble Street Hospitality is looking for an experienced F&B; Controller to manage food and beverage cost control across multiple restaurant outlets. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in inventory management, food costing, beverage costing, recipe costing, stock audits, variance analysis, and restaurant cost control. The role requires close coordination with Operations, Stores, Procurement, and Finance to ensure accurate inventory records and optimum profitability.

Key Responsibilities:

- Monitor daily, weekly, and monthly Food Cost % and Beverage Cost % across all outlets.
- Prepare and analyze food and beverage cost reports, identifying variances and recommending corrective actions.
- Conduct periodic physical inventory counts and stock audits.
- Reconcile physical inventory with system stock and investigate discrepancies.
- Maintain and update recipe costing, yield analysis, and menu costing.
- Verify Purchase Orders (PO), Goods Received Notes (GRN), invoices, and stock transfers.
- Monitor inventory movement, stock consumption, wastage, breakage, complimentary items, and pilferage.
- Ensure compliance with inventory control policies, SOPs, and audit standards.
- Coordinate with Restaurant Managers, Executive Chefs, Stores, and Procurement teams to improve inventory accuracy.
- Review menu profitability through menu engineering and cost analysis.
- Prepare daily, weekly,



and monthly MIS reports for management.
- Support outlet openings, inventory setup, and stock migration activities.
- Recommend cost-saving initiatives to improve gross profit margins while maintaining product quality.

Required Qualifications:

- Bachelor's Degree in Commerce, Finance, Hospitality Management, Hotel Management, or a related discipline.
- Certification in Cost Control, Inventory Management, or Hospitality Finance is an added advantage.

Experience:

- 2-5 years of experience as an F&B; Controller, Cost Controller, Inventory Controller, or Food Cost Analyst in restaurants, hotels, QSRs, cloud kitchens, or hospitality chains.
- Experience handling multiple restaurant outlets will be preferred.

Required Skills

- Food Costing
- Beverage Costing
- Inventory Management
- Stock Audit
- Recipe Costing
- Menu Engineering
- Yield Analysis
- Variance Analysis
- Inventory Reconciliation
- Cost Control
- MIS Reporting
- Procurement Coordination
- Vendor Invoice Verification
- GRN Verification
- Stock Transfer Management
- Advanced Microsoft Excel (Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, SUMIFS, Power Query preferred)
- ERP/POS Systems (Material Control, SAP, Oracle, IDS Next, or similar hospitality software)

Key Competencies

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- High attention to detail
- Numerical accuracy
- Time management
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Decision-making based on data
- Process improvement mindset
- Ability to work in a rapid-paced restaurant environment

Intersted eligible candidates can share their resume on [email protected]

📌 Food And Beverage Controller (Mumbai)
🏢 Pebble Street Hospitality
📍 Mumbai