Cost Control Manager

About the Role

AlKhalejiah is seeking an experienced Cost Control Manager to lead and enhance the costing function for its food manufacturing operations in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role focuses on bakery, pastry, sweets, and related products. The successful candidate will be responsible for establishing accurate product costing, monitoring production costs, analyzing variances, and controlling inventory-related expenses to improve margins and operational efficiency.

Key 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.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• Professional certification such as CMA, CPA, ACCA, or SOCPA is an advantage.
• Minimum of 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.

Required Skills

• 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.

Work Type

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Application Process

Candidates meeting the above qualifications are encouraged to apply.