Karen Country Club, the leading Members Club in East Africa and Central Africa, is seeking to fill the position of Assistant F&B Controller.

Job Summary

The candidate will be responsible for ensuring adequate controls in the Food and Beverage Department, pricing and costing of F&B items and driving overall efficiency in the cost management process for the F&B department.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Preparing monthly stock take schedules, conducting stock take on daily and monthly basis.
• Ensuring physical counts of all stock is done correctly and recording variances report for further action/investigations.
• Ensuring accountability of billing through timely collection of chits, verification, recording of all missing chits and filing.
• Ensuring timely preparation of F&B cost and revenue reports and following up on shortages and recoveries.
• Monitoring slow-moving items and making recommendations to avoid losses.
• Analyzing daily events sales, ensuring accurate billing, and updating the system.

Requirements

Required qualifications and Experience.

• Undergraduate degree in Accounting / Finance / B. Comm / Business Admin
• Diploma / certificate in Sales and F&B Production will be an added advantage.
• CPA / CIMA qualifications.
• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in a busy establishment in the hospitality industry.
• Commercial awareness of services, products in food and beverage.
• Operational awareness of F&B operations.
• Excellent Microsoft excel skills.
• Cost accounting skills.

Personal attributes & Functional Skills

• Leadership, great interpersonal as well as communication skills.
• Sound judgement in decision making.
• High level of ethics and integrity.
• Great sense of responsibility.
• Very creative, assertive, and firm.
• Meticulous attention to detail and ability to multitask.
• IT, numerical and analytical skills.