## ### 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.
• Robust 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