Cost Controller (Aruba Marriott Resort)

Marriott

6h • Onsite

About The Position

Responsible for monitoring food, beverage, and general inventory costs while overseeing storeroom operations, including the receipt, storage, and issuance of stock. Ensures accurate inventory control, cost efficiency, and compliance with internal procedures.

Requirements

• 4-year bachelor's degree in Finance and Accounting or related major
• No work experience required

Responsibilities

• Ensure maintenance of real-time inventory records.
• Ensure controls are in place between the storeroom, receiving, and operational departments.
• Reconcile PO’s, invoices and receiving records.
• Work with receiving department and storerooms on reconciling shipping invoices and receiving reports to ensure count accuracy.
• Utilize MICROs system to monitor sales, track inventory usage and support cost analysis.
• Provide real time potential cost estimates for food and beverage by outlet and Identify opportunities to reduce waste or inefficiencies.
• Verifies outlet requisitions against sales records to support interdepartmental purchasing activities and storeroom requisitions.
• Audits and ensures financial partnership with culinary team to produce and evaluate menu analysis and potential food cost reports.
• Performs daily spot checks of perpetual inventory in the storerooms, check and validate product is properly dated and rotated, report anomalies to superiors on the organization chart.
• Ensure appropriate PAR levels are approved and maintained within food and beverage storerooms and outlets including creating requisitions to replenish and increase approved PAR levels.
• Daily spot checks on high price items, items of spoilage, meat, poultry, seafood, fruits, and vegetables reporting any anomalies to the Director of Finance and Operational leaders and ensuring resolution.
• Support month-end inventory processes and provide financial reports related to inventory usage.
• Utilizes interpersonal and communication skills to lead, influence, and encourage others; advocates sound financial/business decision making; demonstrates honesty/integrity; leads by example.
• Communicates the goals and the owner priorities to subordinates in a clear and precise manner.
• Provides excellent leadership by assigning team members and other departments managers' clear accountability backed by appropriate authority.
• Holds staff accountable for successful performance.
• Supports property strategy from a finance and accounting perspective.
• Submits reports in a timely manner, ensuring delivery deadlines.
• Ensures Profits and Losses are documented accurately.
• Achieves and exceeds goals including performance goals, budget goals, team goals, etc.
• Ensures appropriate corrections are made to audit results if necessary.
• Reviews audit issues to ensure accuracy.
• Monitors all taxes that apply, ensuring that taxes are current, collected and/or accrued.
• Generates and providing accurate and timely results in the form of reports, presentations, etc.
• Ensures compliance with standard and local operating procedures (SOPs and LSOPs).
• Oversees internal, external and regulatory audit processes.
• Ensures compliance with Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
• Ensures that the P&L is accurate (e.g., costs are properly matched to revenue, costs are recorded in the proper accounts).
• Understands and meets the needs of key stakeholders (owners, corporate, guests, etc.).
• Understands the owners' perspective and ROI expectations.
• Anticipates and addresses owner needs and involves ownership in key decisions.
• Leverages strong functional leadership and communication skills to influence the executive team, the property's strategies and to lead own team.
• Advises the GM and executive committee on existing and evolving operating/financial issues.
• Facilitates critique meetings to review information with management team.
• Attends owners meetings in order to provide context and explanation for financial results.
• Attends meetings and communicates with the owners, understanding the priorities and strategic focus.
• Demonstrates a commitment to meeting the needs of all key stakeholders.
• Communicates financial concepts in a clear and persuasive manner that is easy to understand and drives desired behaviors.
• Ensures team members are cross-trained to support successful daily operations.
• Ensures property policies are administered fairly and consistently.
• Ensures new hires participate in the department’s orientation program.
• Ensures new hires receive the appropriate new hire training to successfully perform their job.
• Creates appropriate development plans which develop team members based on their individual strengths, development needs, career aspirations and abilities.

Benefits

• Marriott International is dedicated to being an equal opportunity employer, welcoming all and providing access to opportunity.
• Actively foster an environment where the unique backgrounds of our associates are valued and celebrated.
• Committed to non-discrimination on any protected basis, including disability, veteran status, or other basis protected by applicable law.
• Opportunities for training, development, recognition.
• A place where you can pursue your passions in a luxury environment with a focus on holistic well-being.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees