Cost Accounting Leader: Margin & Inventory Optimization

The Standard Hospitality Group

Mandaluyong

On-site

PHP 1,800,000 - 3,000,000

Full time

41 hours ago

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Job summary

The Standard Hospitality Group is seeking a Cost Accounting Head to lead costing, inventory finance, and profitability strategy across our commissary and restaurant operations. You will ensure accurate product costing, inventory valuation, strong governance, and cost analysis while partnering with Culinary, Operations, Supply Chain, Procurement, and Finance.

This leadership role focuses on strengthening financial governance, improving margins, and building scalable costing processes to support

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Accountancy, Finance, or Management Accounting.
CPA qualification is highly preferred.
10–15 years of progressive experience in Cost Accounting, Manufacturing Finance, or Inventory Finance within large restaurant groups, food manufacturing, FMCG, QSR, or hospitality organizations.
8+ years in a leadership role.

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end cost accounting, including standard costing, product costing, variance analysis, and margin optimization.
Oversee inventory management across commissary and restaurant ops, ensuring valuation, reconciliation, and controls.
Partner with Culinary, Supply Chain, Procurement, and Operations for recipe costing, menu profitability, yield analysis, and production efficiency.
Monitor food costs, inventories, wastage, shrinkage, and variances; recommend profitability initiatives.
Deliver actionable insights via financial analysis, dashboards, KPIs, and management reporting.
Lead budgeting, forecasting, and cost planning for commissary and operations.
Evaluate financial impact of new products, menus, processes, and capital investments.
Drive process improvements, automation, and data integrity via ERP systems and BI tools.
Ensure governance, audit readiness, inventory controls, and policy compliance.
Lead and develop cost accounting team; foster cross-functional collaboration.