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.
- Strong 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
- Robust 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

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📌 Cost Accountant - Loss prevention Control (Hyderabad)
🏢 K.S.Bakers!
📍 Hyderabad