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### Job Purpose

To monitor and control operational costs, identify financial and inventory leakages, prevent losses, and improve profitability across the factory, warehouse and retail outlets.

### Key Responsibilities

- Monitor **food cost, material consumption, wastage and production costs**.
- Analyse actual consumption against standard/BOM and identify variances.
- Conduct regular **inventory, stock and cash audits** at outlets and factory.
- Identify **pilferage, wastage, excess consumption and process leakages**.
- Monitor production yield and investigate abnormal variances.
- Verify purchase, GRN, stock transfers, sales and consumption records.
- Analyse outlet-wise profitability and identify areas of cost leakage.
- Monitor **expired, damaged and slow-moving stock** and ensure proper controls.
- Reconcile physical stock with system stock and investigate differences.
- Prepare **daily/weekly/monthly loss prevention and cost variance reports**.
- Coordinate with Operations, Production, Stores and Finance teams to implement corrective actions.




- Develop and strengthen **SOPs and internal controls** to reduce financial and material losses.
- Track corrective actions and report repeated deviations to management.

### Qualification

- CA Inter / CMA / Cost Accountant / M.Com / MBA Finance or equivalent.
- Solid knowledge of **costing, inventory control, variance analysis and internal audit**.

### Experience

- **3–7 years** of relevant experience.
- Experience in **food manufacturing, bakery, FMCG, retail or multi-outlet operations** will be preferred.

### Key Skills

- Costing & variance analysis
- Inventory control
- Loss prevention
- Internal audit
- MIS & reporting
- Excel / ERP
- Analytical and investigative skills
- Strong follow-up and communication skills

### Key Performance Indicators

- Reduction in material and inventory losses
- Reduction in production wastage
- Improvement in food/material cost %
- Reduction in stock variances
- Timely identification of leakages
- Improvement in outlet/factory profitability
- Effective implementation of corrective actions

📌 Cost Accountant - Loss prevention Control (Hyderabad)
🏢 KS Bakers
📍 Hyderabad