Cost Controller

Malta Marriott Hotel & Spa is currently looking to recruit a Cost Controller to join their team on a full-time basis.

Overview: 
An outstanding opportunity has arisen for a Cost Controller to join the Finance Department of the Malta Marriott Resort & Spa, part of Marriott International and one of Malta’s leading 5-star hotels.
The Cost Controller will be responsible for the management of the stores and will have accountability for all stock movements whilst ensuring that the costs of the Resort are kept in line or below budget whilst keeping the brand standard.  

Main Responsibilities:

• Monitoring the daily complimentary of the Property and ensuring that any complementary given are in line with agreements/allowances
• Managing the point-of-sale system and ensuring that all selling prices are in line with menus issued
• Ensure that any disposal items are authorised beforehand
• Weekly spot checks in outlets to ensure that all items consumed are posted at the point of sale
• Periodic costings of buffet / a la carte to ensure margin profitability is in line with budget
• Monthly stock takes to issue Management accounts
• Costings to check the feasibility of future new menu items/functions and advise Management
• Liaise with Purchasing of possibilities to reduce costs by negotiating new prices/contracts for high-value items
• Operate within Marriott and local policy guidelines
• Monitoring of daily Purchase orders
• Check that Stores are kept up to date and in order
• Reporting to Operations any slow-moving items in stores
• Double checking Purchasing Manager quotes to ascertain that quotes in the system are updated.

Requirements
The individual must possess the following knowledge, skills and abilities and be able to explain and demonstrate that he or she can perform the essential functions of the job, with or without reasonable accommodation, using some other combination of knowledge, skills, and abilities:

• Must be able to speak, read, write and understand the primary language(s) used in the workplace
• Knowledge of Purchasing and preferably Hotel Operation functions
• Knowledge of computer accounting programs, math skills as well as budgetary analysis capabilities required
• Ability to prepare and analyze data, figures and transcriptions prepared on and generated by computer
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited information exists
• More than one year of accounting experience.