Strategic Cost Controller - Food Manufacturing

AlKhalejiah | الخليجية; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 260,000 - 380,000; Full time

Job summary

AlKhalejiah | الخليجية is seeking a Cost Control Manager for its food manufacturing operation with a focus on bakery, pastry, and FMCG. You will lead costing, standard costs, BOM, and inventory analytics to protect margins and drive efficiency.

The role requires hands-on manufacturing cost accounting experience, strong Excel and ERP skills, and the ability to partner with Production, Supply Chain, Procurement, and Finance to deliver accurate cost reporting and pricing insights.

Qualifications

• 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.

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.

Skills

Cost control

Costing analysis

Variance analysis

Excel

ERP systems

Financial reporting

Strategic partnering

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance

Tools

SAP

Oracle

Microsoft Dynamics

Odoo

Job description

AlKhalejiah | الخليجية is seeking a Cost Control Manager for its food manufacturing operation with a focus on bakery, pastry, and FMCG. You will lead costing, standard costs, BOM, and inventory analytics to protect margins and drive efficiency.

The role requires hands-on manufacturing cost accounting experience, strong Excel and ERP skills, and the ability to partner with Production, Supply Chain, Procurement, and Finance to deliver accurate cost reporting and pricing insights.