Cost Controller

Description

Job Summary: We are seeking a professional to create and maintain recipe cards, coordinate inventories, and analyze F&B costs, contributing to the excellence of the Marbella Club. Key Highlights: 1. Key role in managing F&B cost and profitability at a luxury hotel. 2. Collaboration with kitchen, front-of-house, and finance management teams. 3. Opportunity to work at the historic Marbella Club. Surrounded by botanical gardens and located on Marbella’s famed Golden Mile, the legendary Marbella Club was founded in 1954 as a Mediterranean retreat created by Prince Alfonso von Hohenlohe. Today, as part of The Leading Hotels of the World, we uphold its legacy and foster a culture rooted in authenticity, excellence, and attention to detail—creating memorable experiences for our guests. The position outlined below is a vital part of our team and contributes to maintaining and elevating the quality standards that have defined Marbella Club for over 70 years. **Key Responsibilities:** * Create, update, and maintain recipe cards (bill of materials) for all group F\&B outlets: restaurants, bars, room service, banquets, and events. * Coordinate and supervise periodic inventories for kitchen, bar, cellar, and storeroom. Reconcile discrepancies between physical and theoretical stock, and investigate variances. * Analyze shrinkage, waste, internal transfers, and consumption (staff meals, complimentary items, breakage) by department and outlet. * Calculate and report actual vs. theoretical food cost and beverage cost, identify root causes of variances, and propose corrective actions. * Reconcile data across MICROS / POS, Microsoft Business Central, and warehouse management systems. * Support chefs and F\&B Managers with menu profitability analysis and menu engineering (star / cash cow / dog / question mark matrix). * Validate purchase prices against supplier contracts and negotiated rates; flag deviations. * Participate in the monthly F\&B closing process and preparation of reports for Management. * Collaborate with the Procurement Department on supplier qualification, performance monitoring, and benchmarking. **Candidate Requirements:** * Ability to work with multiple data sources: proven ability to extract, cross-reference, and consolidate information from heterogeneous systems (POS, ERP, inventory records, spreadsheets, technical specifications, supplier rate sheets, etc.) to build a single, reliable view reflecting the operational reality of the business. This is the core of the role: without the ability to "translate" what disparate systems report into one unified dashboard, true cost control cannot be achieved. * Experience: Internships, traineeships, or prior experience in hotels, foodservice, auditing, or finance departments is valued. * Advanced Excel skills: pivot tables, VLOOKUP / INDEX+MATCH, conditional formatting, handling large datasets. * Basic knowledge of analytical accounting and cost accounting. * Languages: native or equivalent Spanish; English minimum level B2\. Additional languages are a plus. * Willingness to travel occasionally between properties (Marbella, Ibiza, Sierra Nevada). * Minimum one year’s tenure as an employee at Marbella Club. **Preferred Qualifications:** * Prior experience with Microsoft Business Central, Opera PMS, MICROS Symphony / Simphony, or other hospitality ERP/POS systems. * Familiarity with Power BI or other data visualization and analytics tools drawing from heterogeneous sources (Business Central, POS, inventories, Excel). * Experience with F\&B stock management systems (e.g., Adaco, FNB Manager, etc.). * Prior experience in 4-5 star hotels or premium foodservice establishments. **Key Competencies:** * Analytical rigor and attention to detail. * Ability to communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders: kitchen, front-of-house, procurement, finance management. * Results orientation and commitment to continuous improvement. * Discretion and responsible handling of sensitive information. * Autonomy and organizational capability to manage multiple properties simultaneously.