Cost Controller

About Company

The company operates in the beauty and personal care industry, focusing on developing and marketing consumer products through digital-first and direct-to-consumer channels.

Job Description

The Role 

You're the person who makes sure every cost number is right — not just what it costs to make our product, but every rupee that runs the business: ad spend, agency and professional fees, logistics, software, and everything in between. Your cost picture spans the full D2C P&L — from product and landed cost all the way down to operating expenses. You'll also own the engine that creates those costs: vendor onboarding and the end-to-end procure-to-pay (P2P) process. If a cost is wrong, mis-classified, or un-accrued, you catch it first. You're the single source of truth for cost — and the control point for how we spend.

What You'll Own

 Cost accuracy across the P&L

• Be the single source of truth for every cost line — COGS, marketing, professional charges, logistics, and opex
• Make sure every cost is captured, correctly classified, and accrued in the right period and cost centre
• Catch errors, mis-bookings, and missed accruals before they hit the P&L

Product cost & COGS 

• Validate contract manufacturer (3P) / job-work charges, BOMs, and landed cost per SKU
• Maintain a clean, current costing master; run standard vs actual and explain variances
• Track gross margin by SKU and channel; flag erosion early 

Marketing, professional & operating spend 

• Track and control performance-marketing / ad spend and agency fees
• Govern professional charges — legal, consulting, audit, retainers
• Own the rest of the D2C cost base — software/SaaS, rent, logistics, and other opex
• Ensure correct accruals and cost-centre classification; flag overspend against budget 

Vendor onboarding & Procure-to-Pay (P2P) 

• Own the end-to-end P2P process: vendor onboarding & due-diligence/KYC, PO discipline, GRN / 3 way match, invoice processing, approval workflow, and payment readiness
• Set up and enforce P2P controls; keep the vendor master clean and accurate
• Make sure nothing gets paid that isn't PO-backed, received, and approved 

Budgeting & variance 

• Build and run the opex / cost budget across all lines and the monthly budget vs actual cycle
• Lead cost variance analysis with driver-level commentary the team can act on
• Support the annual operating plan and rolling forecasts on the cost side 

Inventory, controls & reporting 

• Own inventory valuation, SLOB / expiry provisioning, write-offs, and damages
• Keep tight controls over costing, procurement, and inventory
• Deliver decision-ready cost MIS and support audits as we scale

Who You Are 

• CA with 1-2 years, or a non-CA with 3-5 years of relevant cost/finance experience
• Ideally from FMCG / Consumer / D2C, comfortable with 3P / outsourced cost structures
• You understand the full D2C cost base — COGS, marketing/ad spend, professional charges, logistics, and opex
• You've owned or run a P2P process and vendor onboarding end-to-end
• Strong on Excel and modelling; comfortable inside an ERP (costing / P2P / inventory)
• High ownership — you challenge spend, sweat the details, and don't wait to be told where the problems are
• You thrive in a fast, unstructured startup environment

Mandatory Requirement

Primary Job Profile : Costing

Technical Skills : Cost control, Investment mgmt, Opex Management

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