# Cost Control

Skill · Finance and Accounting

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/cost-control

Cost control is the process of monitoring, managing, and regulating expenses to keep them within a planned budget, typically involving tracking actual spending against forecasts and taking corrective action when variances occur. Financial managers, controllers, and project managers use cost control techniques like variance analysis and budgetary controls to maintain profitability and financial discipline. It is a core function within cost accounting and operations management.

## Roles that use Cost Control

- [Supply Chain Director](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/supply-chain-director) — 1

Related skills: [Budgeting](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/budgeting), [Financial Forecasting](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/financial-forecasting), [Variance Analysis](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/variance-analysis), [Budget Management](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/budget-management), [Cost Accounting](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/cost-accounting), [Project Cost Management](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/project-cost-management), [Business Budgeting](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/business-budgeting), [Fiscal Management](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/fiscal-management), [P&L Management](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/p-l-management), [Cost Management](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/cost-management), [Cost Containment](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/cost-containment), [Purchasing](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/purchasing)

## Open roles requiring Cost Control (1)

- [Director, Clinical Supply Chain & Planning](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/f37ac853-a001-4ece-81ad-9a1c79ea589a/director-clinical-supply-chain-planning-at-bristol-myers-squibb) at [Bristol Myers Squibb](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/bristol-myers-squibb) — Full-time, $190,989 – $249,949