Food and Beverage Cost Controller in England

Dishoom Whitechapel, England, United Kingdom

Food and Beverage Cost Controller

We’re looking for a Food & Beverage Cost Controller to join our FinTech team, helping keep Dishoom running beautifully behind the scenes. This role demands a keen eye for detail, precision, and commercial insight. You’ll be the key link between Finance, Operations, and Supply Chain, ensuring every penny is accounted for and every dish adds up.

About the Role

The Food & Beverage Cost Controller plays a key role in maintaining financial discipline, cost transparency, and operational efficiency across Dishoom’s food, drink and ecommerce channels. You’ll ensure the business has accurate, timely, and actionable insights into cost performance, supplier management, and procurement efficiency, shaping how we make decisions and grow.

Key Responsibilities

• Take full ownership of our purchasing system (Procure Wizard) — maintaining setup, products, recipes, and templates, ensuring accuracy and efficiency across all sites.
• Manage supplier pricing, relationships, and performance, monitoring order patterns to ensure compliance and best value.
• Lead food and drink cost‑of‑sales reporting, budgeting and analysis — tracking inflation, sales mix and GP performance to drive visibility and improvement.
• Support our central production kitchen to enhance cost efficiency and create clear, actionable insight for the wider business.
• Work closely with our ecommerce team on forecasting, pricing, product launches and NPD — ensuring strong margin management and clear financial oversight.
• Produce and improve weekly reporting (including our beloved Jantri) and partner with the data team to ensure accuracy and meaningful insights.
• Help prepare tenders and support sourcing for new openings or supplier reviews, contributing to best‑buy practice across the business.
• Deliver training and guidance to teams using Procure Wizard, embedding strong habits and consistency across Dishoom.
• Lend support to ad‑hoc projects, analysis and improvements across Finance, Supply Chain and Operations whenever needed.

About You

You bring strong analytical skills, commercial curiosity, and a love for hospitality—a calm in the numbers, making sure decisions are based on solid insight.

• Solid experience with Procure Wizard (ideally as a Superuser), strong understanding of purchasing systems and best practice.
• Advanced Excel skills, with ability to spot trends, solve problems and communicate findings clearly.
• Confident presenting financial information to both finance and non‑finance teams.
• Experience in the hospitality industry (or genuine interest), with understanding of key KPIs and cost structures.
• Strong systems knowledge, ideally including Aloha and other POS or procurement tools.
• Organised and proactive, thriving in a fast‑paced environment where priorities shift.
• Naturally collaborative and supportive, helping teams improve performance through thoughtful analysis, insight and communication.

Benefits

• Large summer festival (Family Mela) and Babu’s day out and Christmas party.
• Regular team events and a weekly team lunch.
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (plus a day for the Family Mela and another for the Christmas Party).
• Dishoom Black card with a monthly allowance for friends and family in our cafes.
• Food from the café menu when working in cafes.
• Access to a huge discount network saving on flights, groceries, etc.
• Subsidised yoga & gym memberships.
• Ongoing support for personal development.
• Extra day off to take your little one to their first day of school.

About Dishoom

Dishoom and Permit Room are managed by a team of Babu’s led by co‑founders Shamil and Kavi Thakrar. Dishoom opened in Covent Garden in 2010 and now has cafés in London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Birmingham, Brighton, Cambridge and Oxford, as well as delivery kitchens and an online store. Every meal served donates a meal to charity—25 million meals have been donated so far. Dishoom was named one of the UK’s Top 10 Best Places to Work by the Sunday Times, and the culture encourages creativity and learning.

Payment

While the base pay range is provided, the final salary will be based on your skills and experience. We’re looking for the right fit who can grow with us.

Seniority level

Entry level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Management and Manufacturing

Industry

Restaurants

Equal Opportunities

We are an inclusive and diverse workplace. We encourage people from all backgrounds, identities and experiences to apply.

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