Cost Controller
About the job
• Internal contacts with all Food and Beverage management and Administrative personnel, Accounting and hotel management personnel.
• To monitor activities relating to food and beverage cost controls of the hotel.
• Areas of concern include food and beverage, purchasing, receiving, storage and issuance, menu planning, production and portion control, pricing, inventories, reporting, forecasting and analysis.
• To perform analysis and prepare reports to keep all levels of management informed of day-to-day food and beverage costs, problems and opportunities and to provide necessary information for accounting entries.
• To verify that ACCOR standard purchase specifications are followed on a continuing basis.
• To check daily quotation sheets prices with invoiced prices.
• To provide information from perpetual inventory records needed for beverage purchasing.
• To verify the accuracy of the entries, extensions and totals of the Receiving Clerk’s Daily Report and that all items received, with or without invoice, had been properly recorded thereon.
• To verify that Notice of Error Correction and Goods Received without Invoice forms have been prepared where appropriate.
• To spot check merchandise received daily to determine that it conforms to specifications as to weight, trim, and count and that it has been properly invoiced. To review any deficiencies with Receiving Clerk to ascertain why sub-standard merchandise was accepted. If not resolved, report problem to the Controller
• To ensure that adequate controls are maintained over all goods received from the point of receipt to the point of storage or final delivery.
• To ensure that all merchandise is stored in properly locked storage areas and monitor security control of keys for all such areas.
• To check merchandise storage practices periodically as to orderliness, price stamping, and rotation of merchandise.
• To maintain a daily and cumulative monthly record of food and beverage requisitions and of direct purchases issued to the producing department without requisition.
• To monitor procedures for issuing store items from storerooms to ensure that such merchandise is issued only on written requisition signed by a properly authorised person.
• To monitor beverage issue procedures to make certain that bar requisitions are handled according to cost control manual instructions.
• To participate in the formulation and enforcement of sound control procedures for banquet beverage bars including issue, return and re-issue practices.
• To participate in planning daily salvage, control and usage of usable left-over food items, including banquets.
• To furnish the Chef information needed in planning daily production requirements and monitor daily production of pastry and other items, and see to it that they are according to plan.
• To check the butcher shop production record daily for yield information and for control of steak usage.
• In co-operation with the Food and Beverage Manager and Chef, to establish standard portion sizes for all outlets, post in proper locations in the kitchen and continuously monitor to see to it that they are adhered to.
• To run periodic butcher tests.
• To establish potential cost for all bars.
• Continuously review, and furnish current portion cost information to the Food & Beverage Manager, Executive Chef, and Room Supervisors so they can adequately price banquets, dining rooms, room services and other menus.
- Department: Purchasing Finance & Accounting
About you
• 3 years experience in Finance & Accounting or related professional area.
• Fluent in English
• Computer literate. Must have experience with Micros & FMC.
· Good interpersonal skills and self-confident
· Service minded, with attention to quality
· Good communication skills
· Dynamic
· Good presentation
· A thorough and organised approach
The company
Check in to 4-star comfort right at the Novotel World Trade Centre Dubai hotel. Your airy contemporary room gives you space to spread out and work or relax with the skyline views. Start the day fresh with a dip in the pool and a buffet breakfast off the trendy lobby, and wind it up with live jazz at Blue Bar at Novotel.
When it comes to business and tourism, no hotel could be more convenient and central than the Novotel Dubai World Trade Centre. Part of the Dubai Convention and Exhibition Centre, the hotel is only minutes from Dubai Mall, the Dubai International Finance Centre, Bur Dubai, Deira, and many other points of interest. Enjoy scheduled complimentary shuttles to major shopping malls. The World Trade Centre Metro station is on our doorstep, and the airport is just a 10 minute drive away.
Cost Controller
Full-time, More than 1 year
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