Cost Controller

Travel is a journey. We help make it a joy.

Starting with a warm, inviting welcome for all guests, whether traveling on business or for fun, enjoying a quick night, or relaxing for the week. We thrive on making our guests' stays brighter, helping them create memories that will last a lifetime. Irresistible smiles are our specialty. We should know, we've been on our journey since 1952. So if you can help us spread the joy of travel to all, we'd love to give you a warm welcome to the Holiday Inn family.

What is the job

You will work with your team to ensure all financial processes are secure, accurate and completed in line with the timetable. You need to work with and support your management colleagues to compile the forecasting and operational planning of the payroll and expenditure, as you need to deliver in line with your budgets.

Every day is different at IHG, but you'll mostly be:

1. Verifying that officer checks (duty meals) and F&B entertainment checks are processed according to the procedure and preparing a daily entertainment report (in the absence of Income Auditor).
2. Calculating the cost of all recipes, inter-kitchen transfer as well as any food and beverage consumed by the hotel employee.
3. Validating the changes to F&B menu items in POS and maintaining independent control of F&B menu from restaurants & bar.
4. Defining min/max, par stock management system and ensuring strict compliance with by all parties concerned.
5. Controlling all goods received and delivered in/out hotel main stores to ensure they are properly documented and accounted for.
6. Performing daily/monthly food and beverage reconciliation using POS-generated sales analysis report and ensuring that all discrepancies are explained.
7. Performing monthly physical count of all warehouse and operation stocks and month-end inventory closing in strict respect of the hotel procedures, with final balances reconciled with general ledger month-end balance.
8. Reporting the daily and monthly F&B costs with emphasis and detailed analysis on exceptional variances, trend of cost of sales ratios, slow moving items, breakage & loss, etc.
9. Conducting and coordinating with Chief Steward, F&B and Housekeeping to count operating equipment of each twice per year.

QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS :

You will maximize the financial performance of the hotel by providing a financial and purchasing strategy and ensuring all legal aspects of the business are completed accurately and timely. You will ensure we have legally binding contracts in place for our locally arranged suppliers, which you will have negotiated obviously at the best possible rates. Also, that insurance policies are in place and up to date so we are covered for all eventualities.

What we need from you :

You need to continually review what's working and what's not working within the hotel and drive improvements and make changes as and when they are needed.

You are part of our team because we saw that you had creativity, so you need to bring this into your role, and encourage your team to do the same, by sharing any ideas that you have to keep driving for excellence.

What we offer :

In return we'll give you a competitive financial and benefits package and the chance to work with a great team of people. Most importantly, we'll give you the Room to be yourself. So what's your passion? Please get in touch if this position matches your skills and interests and tell us how you could bring your individual competencies. At IHG we are committed to developing our team and managing our talent and would encourage internal as well as external candidates to apply for any of our vacancies. We are an equal opportunities employer.

Join us and you'll become part of the family and like all families, all our individual team members share some winning characteristics. As a team, we work better together, we trust and support each other, we do the right thing and we welcome different perspectives.