وظيفة مدير مراقبة التكاليف لدى الخليجية في الرياض

Job Title: Cost Control Manager - Food Manufacturing

Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Industry: Food Manufacturing / Bakery / Pastry / FMCG

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Cost Control Manager to lead and strengthen the costing function for a food manufacturing operation specializing in bakery, pastry, sweets, and related products.

The role will be responsible for establishing accurate product costing, monitoring production costs, analyzing variances, controlling inventory-related costs, and identifying opportunities to improve margins and operational efficiency.

The ideal candidate must have strong hands-on experience in manufacturing cost accounting, preferably within the food, bakery, pastry, confectionery, or FMCG industry.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the factory’s cost control and product-costing activities.
• Develop and maintain accurate standard costs for raw materials, labor, packaging, and manufacturing overheads.
• Calculate and review product costs using recipes, Bills of Materials (BOM), production yields, and routing data.
• Monitor actual production costs against standard and budgeted costs.
• Analyze material, labor, overhead, purchase-price, usage, yield, and production variances.
• Review food costs, wastage, spoilage, production losses, and consumption patterns.
• Monitor inventory valuation and reconcile raw materials, work in progress, finished goods, and packaging materials.
• Ensure accurate allocation of direct and indirect manufacturing costs.
• Analyze product, category, customer, and channel profitability.
• Identify cost-saving opportunities without compromising product quality or operational standards.
• Support pricing decisions through accurate cost and margin analysis.
• Partner closely with Production, Supply Chain, Procurement, Warehouse, Sales, and Finance teams.
• Participate in physical inventory counts and investigate stock and consumption discrepancies.
• Prepare monthly cost reports, dashboards, forecasts, and management presentations.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, month-end closing, and management reporting.
• Improve costing policies, internal controls, reporting tools, and ERP costing processes.
• Provide management with clear recommendations to improve margins and factory performance.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• Professional certification such as CMA, CPA, ACCA, or SOCPA is an advantage.
• Minimum 7 years of relevant experience, including strong experience in manufacturing costing or cost control.
• Proven experience in a factory or production environment is essential.
• Experience within food manufacturing, industrial bakery, pastry, confectionery, or FMCG is strongly preferred.
• Strong knowledge of standard costing, BOM costing, inventory valuation, variance analysis, and manufacturing overhead allocation.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and ERP systems.
• Experience with SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Odoo, or similar systems is preferred.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and business-partnering skills.
• Ability to communicate financial insights clearly to operational and senior management teams.

Key Competencies

• Manufacturing Cost Accounting
• Product and Recipe Costing
• Standard Costing
• BOM and Yield Analysis
• Inventory Valuation
• Production Variance Analysis
• Food Cost and Waste Control
• Margin and Profitability Analysis
• Budgeting and Forecasting
• ERP Costing and Reporting
• Cross-functional Business Partnering