Night Manager | InterContinental Sydney Coogee Beach

IHG; Sydney; On-site; AUD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

InterContinental Sydney Coogee Beach is seeking a Night Manager to oversee hotel operations during the night shift, ensuring safety, security and accurate completion of night audit from 11pm to 7am.

You will guide the team, uphold brand standards, deliver seamless service, handle guest interactions, cash handling, and work with the finance team on nightly reporting while maintaining compliance and a positive work environment.

Qualifications

• Four years of guest service/hotel experience with two years in a management capacity.
• Bachelor’s degree / higher education qualification / equivalent in Hotel Administration, Business Administration.
• Must speak local language.
• Valid Responsible Service of Alcohol and First Aid Certificate are required.

Responsibilities

• Manage and oversee all hotel operations overnight.
• Train colleagues in quality and service standards, ensuring they have tools to perform and are empowered to execute in their roles.
• Lead by example by upholding and embodying InterContinental brand standards in all daily operations.
• Ensure guests receive prompt, professional service, personal recognition and a seamless Front & Back of House experience throughout their stay.
• Support Front Office staff to provide guests with prompt service, professional attention and personal recognition.
• Be the first responder - know how to respond to emergency situations promptly and calmly.
• Ensure all credit and financial transactions are handled securely; maintain cashiers float and prepare audit-ready daily reports.
• Oversee night audit function and prepare daily financial reports with the finance team overnight.
• Adhere to health, safety, or other compliance requirements and brand standards and local policies.

Job description

If you’d like to embrace a world of opportunities, we’d like to welcome you to the world’s most international luxury hotel brand.

Perfectly positioned on Sydney’s iconic beachfront, the InterContinental Sydney Coogee Beach offers 198 elegantly designed rooms and suites, many with uninterrupted Pacific Ocean views, alongside an ocean-facing infinity pool, luxury cabanas, and a vibrant leisure deck. Guests can look forward to an elevated arrival experience, immersive coastal dining celebrating seasonal local produce, and a redefined wellness sanctuary. With state-of-the‑art event spaces including a Grand Ballroom, the hotel blends soulful escapes and meaningful connection with refined coastal elegance — setting a new benchmark for beachfront hospitality in Australia.

About the Role

As Night Manager, you will manage and oversee all hotel operations in the absence of the General Manager or designate during nights. The principal responsibility is safety and security of guests and colleagues and ensuring the accurate and timely completion of the night audit function during the hours of 11pm – 7am.

You’ll not only be the person guests rely on to handle transactions, offer local insights and anticipate every detail of a friction‑free experience. You’ll also be in tune with your team, driving performance and engagement and ensuring they receive the right learning and development opportunities to maximise performance and maintain a positive and productive work environment.

Your day to day

• Manage and oversee all hotel operations overnight
• Train colleagues in quality and service standards, ensuring they have the necessary tools and equipment to perform and are empowered to execute in their roles. Maintain and continue to develop Managers and Frontline colleagues
• Lead by example by consistently upholding and embodying InterContinental brand standards in all daily operations
• Ensure guests receive prompt, professional service, personal recognition and a seamless Front & Back of House experience throughout their stay.
• Support and ensure Front Office staff provides guests with prompt service, professional attention and personal recognition.
• Be the first responder - know how to respond to emergency situations promptly and calmly
• Ensure all credit and financial transactions are handled in a secure manner. Maintain cashiers float, ensuring accurate daily report of all money received, performs the audit balances and prepares all works for audit in an orderly fashion
• Oversee night audit function and preparation of daily financial reports. Work closely with our finance team to ensure the auditing and reporting process has a high level of detail overnight
• Adhere to local regulations concerning health, safety, or other compliance requirements, as well as brand standards and local policies and procedures.
• Demonstrates our One Step Ahead Service Behaviours: Create confidence, Encourage success and Make it happen; and is aligned to True Hospitality service skills expectations.
• Champion IHG Rewards Club and ensure team are 100% compliant in their training and delivery of standards.

What we need from you

• Full unrestricted work rights- a kind reminder that sponsorship is not available for this position.
• Bachelor’s degree / higher education qualification / equivalent in Hotel Administration, Business Administration
• Four years of guest service/hotel experience with two years in a management capacity, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Must speak local language
• Valid Responsible Service of Alcohol and First Aid Certificate are required

What you can expect from us

We give our people everything they need to succeed. From a competitive salary that rewards all your hard work to a wide range of benefits designed to help you live your best work life – including laundry for business attire, impressive room discounts, competitive products & services discounts program and some of the best training in the business.

Our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams where we celebrate difference and encourage colleagues to bring their whole selves to work. IHG Hotels & Resorts provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability. We promote a culture of trust, support, and acceptance. Always welcoming different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.

IHG gives every member of the team the room they need to belong, grow and make a difference in a collaborative environment. We know that to work well, we need to feel well – both inside and outside of work – and through our myWellbeing framework, we are committed to supporting wellbeing in your health, lifestyle, and workplace.

We are proud to be IHG and we know you will be too. Visit http://careers.ihg.com/ to find out more about us.

At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We firmly believe that all our colleagues deserve to be treated equally and have the same opportunities to develop and grow their skills within our business and provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and colleagues without regard to an individual's, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or familial status, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.