Guest Services/night Auditor 32-40 Hours/week

**The Guest Service Representative** position is generally responsible for representing the hotel to the guest throughout all stages of the guest’s stay, determining the guest’s reservation status and identifying their duration of stay. He or she will also process the guest’s method of payment, be customer-service oriented, and work closely with housekeeping and maintenance to ensure room status reports are current and up to date.

**ACTIVITIES**:
The duties and responsibilities for the Guest Service Representative include, but are not limited to the following:

- Create a welcoming environment for our guests.
- Register guests and assign rooms, accommodating special requests whenever possible.
- Complete pre-registration and blocking of rooms for reservations/guest arrival.
- Thoroughly understand and adhere to proper credit, check-cashing, and cash-handling policies and procedures.
- Understand room status and room status tracking.
- Know room locations, types of rooms available, and room rates.
- Use suggestive selling techniques to sell rooms and to promote other services of the hotel.
- Coordinate room status updates with the housekeeping department by notifying housekeeping of all check-outs, late check-outs, early check-ins, special requests, and part-day rooms.
- Possess a working knowledge of the reservations, takes reservations for guests both in house and call in, understanding of the cancellation procedures.
- Process guest check-outs.
- Post and file all charges to guest, master, and city ledger accounts.
- Work closely with all hotel departments to improve service delivery and efficiency.
- Use proper telephone etiquette.
- Coordinate guestroom maintenance work with the engineering and maintenance division.
- Report any unusual occurrences or requests to the manager or supervisor.
- Know all safety and emergency procedures, is aware of accident prevention policies.
- Ensure the work environment is tidy and well organized at all times (lobby).
- Adhere to all health and safety guidelines and standards.

**COMPETENCIES WE ARE SEEKING**:

- Excellent communication skills in English
- Must be able to speak, read, write, and understand the primary language(s) used in the workplace
- Excellent organizational, interpersonal and administration skills
- Proficient or familiar with computerized systems
- Demonstrated knowledge of guest service and a genuine desire to exceed guest expectations
- Present a high degree of professional work ethic and image
- High school graduate or equivalent
- Availability to work day, evening and night shifts any day of the week including weekends and holidays

**Night Auditor** is responsible for the reconciliation and completion of all daily transactions. Along with the accounting functions of the role, the Night Auditor also provides guest services to guests during the overnight hours, handling and helping to resolving issues as they arise.

**ACTIVITIES**:
The duties and responsibilities for the Night Auditor include, but are not limited to the following:

- Consistently provides exceptional customer service by exceeding guests expectations.
- Register guests into their guest rooms as per reservations & checks out guests and settles accounts; collects and verifies payments - cash, debit and credit and maintaining a float.
- Verify and balance daily charges for all departments to customer folios, master accounts and house; accounts; make corrections as needed to ensure required documentation is obtained.
- Run computer through nightly processing sequence to reset for next day's use in balancing for applicable functions.
- Audit all income postings and charges.
- Record and balance staff and house charges.
- Prepare and transmit credit card deposits.
- Process city ledger work to accounting.
- Run accounts receivable reports; providing next day reports to the Front Office, Executive Office and other departments as required.
- Takes ownership of all guest complaints and rectify the complaint quickly and efficiently;
- Communicates information regarding Guests’ needs to other Team Members and Departments.
- Follow established written emergency procedures for fire, power failure, water and gas line ruptures, and severe weather conditions
- Adhere to all health and safety guidelines and standards.

**COMPETENCIES WE ARE SEEKING**:

- Previous front office or accounting experience required
- Proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, network systems
- Strong data entry, analytical and communications skills
- Ability to recognize and correct guest service issues in a courteous and professional manner
- Proven ability to be organized, multi-task and prioritize; ability to work within deadlines
- Completion of High School, GED or equivalent
- Ability to work flexible shifts (weekday or weekend overnights)

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time

**Salary**: From $15.50 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Dental care
- Disability insurance
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- On-si