Food and Beverage Controls Executive - The Hoxton Bengaluru City
Summary
Oversee food and beverage costs, inventory, and compliance for a luxury hotel, analyzing daily data and collaborating with culinary and finance teams to optimize profitability.
What you’ll do…
- Monitor and control Food & Beverage costs by reviewing daily purchases, issues, transfers and stock movements.
- Conduct regular inventory counts of food, beverages and operating equipment, ensuring accurate stock reconciliation and reporting.
- Verify recipes, menu pricing and portion standards to ensure compliance with approved cost percentages.
- Review daily revenue, voids, discounts, complimentary items and wastage reports, investigating variances and recommending corrective actions.
- Prepare daily, weekly and monthly F&B control reports, including food cost, beverage cost and inventory analysis for management review.
- Work closely with Culinary, Food & Beverage, Purchasing, Receiving and Finance teams to strengthen cost controls and operational efficiency.
- Conduct spot checks and audits on stores, bars, restaurants and banquet operations to ensure compliance with company policies and internal controls.
- Support month-end inventory valuation, financial closing and audit processes.
- Identify cost-saving opportunities while maintaining quality, service standards and guest satisfaction.
What we’re looking for…
- Individuals. You're looking for a place where you can be you; no clones in suits here.
- Passion for hospitality with a strong commercial and analytical mindset.
- You're detail-oriented and enjoy working with numbers, reports and operational data.
- You're not precious. We leave our egos at the door and help get things done.
- You're proactive, organised and thrive in a fast-paced hospitality environment.
- You enjoy collaborating with operational teams to improve performance and profitability.
- Previous experience as an F&B Controls Executive, Cost Controller, F&B Cost Analyst or Finance Executive within a hotel or hospitality environment.
- Strong knowledge of food and beverage cost control, inventory management, recipe costing and stock reconciliation.
- Experience with hotel PMS, POS systems, inventory management software and Microsoft Excel.
- Excellent analytical, numerical and problem-solving skills with strong attention to detail.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence operational teams and maintain effective working relationships.
- Bachelor's degree in Commerce, Finance, Hospitality Management or a related field; prior experience with hotel cost control systems will be an advantage.