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
Solid 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 (India)
🏢 KS Bakers
📍 India