Francaise Foods Co. تعلن عن وظيفة محاسب مستودعات ومخزون في جدة

Warehouse / Inventory Accountant, Fresh Produce.

Company: Francaise Food Co. Location: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (on site, warehouse based) Type: Full time Reports to: Managing Director.

About us

Francaise Food Co. has imported and distributed premium fresh fruit and vegetables in Saudi Arabia since 1985. We air freight from Peru, South Africa, the Netherlands, Spain, Thailand, Vietnam and the USA, and we supply the country's leading retail chains and hotel groups. Our inventory turns every two to four days. Nothing sits still, and nothing forgives a late number.

The role

This is not a back office accounting job. You will sit between the warehouse floor and the ledger, and you will own one thing completely: the accuracy of our stock, in both quantity and value, from the moment a pallet is unloaded to the moment it appears in the financial statements.

In a business with 260+ SKUs, five stock locations, full lot traceability and a two to four day shelf life, a cost that is wrong by a decimal place becomes a six figure error in the P&L within a week. We are looking for the person who catches it before it happens.

What you will do?

1. Reconcile physical stock to system balances daily across five warehouse and van locations, and investigate every variance to root cause.
2. Run the three way match between purchase order, goods receipt note and supplier invoice, with particular attention to foreign currency conversion and to unit of measure (price per box against quantity in kilos is the single most common source of error in this industry).
3. Own product cost accuracy: set and maintain standard cost from the most recent actual purchase invoice, and control who is permitted to change it.
4. Allocate landed costs (air freight, customs duty, clearance fees, import permits, loading and handling) onto shipments and down to SKU level, so that product margin reflects true cost and not just the supplier invoice.
5. Plan and lead cycle counts and full physical counts: blind count sheets, two person teams, mandatory recount on any line above 5% or 500 SAR variance, signed and timed documentation.
6. Account for spoilage, damage and repacking loss correctly and separately from count variances, and publish a weekly waste report by product and by branch.
7. Monitor lot ageing, FIFO discipline and expiry exposure, and flag slow moving stock to procurement before it becomes a write-off.
8. Clear negative stock lines, open transfers and unvalidated deliveries, and enforce month end cut-off across all locations.
9. Reconcile the inventory control account in the general ledger to the stock valuation report every month, and prepare the stock closing entry.
10. Document supplier quality claims with the receiving team and independent surveyors, and track claim recovery.
11. Support month end close with cost of goods sold, gross margin by product, and shrinkage analysis

Write and enforce the SOPs for receiving, scrapping and stock adjustment, and train warehouse staff to follow them.

What we are looking for.

Required:

1. Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or a related field.
2. 3 to 5 years in inventory, cost or warehouse accounting.
3. Genuine comfort working inside a cold store and on the receiving dock, including early mornings when shipments land.
4. Advanced Excel (pivot tables, lookups, large reconciliations).
5. Working knowledge of Saudi VAT and ZATCA e-invoicing requirements.
6. Professional Arabic and English, written and spoken.
7. The temperament to say clearly that a number is wrong, and to hold that position.

Strongly preferred:

• Experience in food, fresh produce, dairy, meat or chilled FMCG distribution, where shrinkage, weight loss, repacking and short shelf life are daily realities rather than exceptions.
• Hands-on experience with Odoo, particularly Inventory and Accounting (not a requirement; strong .experience with SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics or similar ERP is equally welcome).
• Familiarity with lot and batch traceability, barcode scanning and warehouse mobile applications.
• Exposure to landed cost allocation and import documentation.
• SOCPA membership or progress toward a professional qualification.
• SQL or Power BI / Looker Studio capability for building your own reports.

What success looks like in the first 90 days.

• The inventory control account agrees to the stock valuation report, and the difference is explained line by line.
• Zero negative stock balances across all locations.
• Every SKU in the top 25 by value carries a cost you can trace to a specific supplier invoice.
• A weekly waste and shrinkage number that management trusts and acts on.
• A written, signed receiving and adjustment procedure that the warehouse actually follows.

Why join us?

You are inheriting a real problem with a clear mandate to fix it, in a 40 year old company that has just implemented a modern ERP and is rebuilding its financial controls from the ground up. The Managing Director sponsors this work directly. If you want a role where the quality of your reconciliation visibly changes the company's reported margin, this is that role.

To apply: send your CV to hr@francaisefood.com with the subject line "Warehouse Accountant, Jeddah". Applications from candidates currently in Saudi Arabia with transferable iqama will be prioritized.