Front Desk Agent/Night Auditor

Four Points by Sheraton Manhattan; Village of Ballston Spa (NY); On-site; USD 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Fourpointssohovillage in New York is seeking a Night Auditor/Front Office Agent to close the day, balance revenues, and support hotel front desk operations while ensuring guest satisfaction.

You will check guests in/out, handle postings, and maintain accurate ledgers while delivering high levels of service throughout the overnight shift.

Responsibilities

• Greet, register, and assign rooms to guests.
• Verify customers’ credit and determine payment method at check-in.
• Keep records of room availability and guest accounts using a property management system.
• Balance daily receipts and perform income audit prior to closing the day.
• Review accounts and charges with guests at checkout.
• Answer incoming calls and relay messages.
• Coordinate with housekeeping or maintenance for issues.
• Make and confirm reservations.
• Answer questions about hotel services, directions, and local info.
• Record guest comments and escalate to management as needed.

Job description

JOB TITLE: Night Auditor/Front Office Agent

Purpose for the Position:

To close the day, ensure all revenues, receipts, and ledgers are balanced , check in and out guests to the hotel, ensure proper room and miscellaneous postings, secure credit, answer questions, answer telephones, provide maximum levels of guest service and support the hotel’s rooms division in anyway required to ensure complete guest satisfaction.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Greet, register, and assign rooms to guests of the hotel.
• Verify customers’ credit, and establish how the customer will pay for the accommodation upon check-in.
• Keep records of room availability and guests’ accounts using computerized property management system.
• Perform simple bookkeeping activities, such as balancing receipts and revenues for the day, and perform income audit on all revenues posted (i.e., calculating restaurant checks and telephone charges to ensure proper revenues have been posted) prior to closing the day.
• Review accounts and charges with guests during the checkout process.
• Transmit and receive messages using telephones or telephone switchboards.
• Contact overnight housekeeping or maintenance staff when guests report problems.
• Make and confirm reservations.
• Answer inquiries pertaining to hotel services, registration of guests, and shopping, dining, entertainment, and travel directions.
• Record guest comments or complaints, referring customers to managers as necessary.
• Answer all incoming phones in three rings or less.
• Complete “bucket checks” to ensure all accounts are current and comply with standards established by the hotel’s Controller and Front Office Manager.
• Compute bills, collect payments, and make change for guests.
• Issue room keys and escort instructions to bellmen.
• Post charges, such those for rooms, food, liquor, or telephone calls, to ledgers manually, or by using computers.
• Contact housekeeping or maintenance staff when guests report problems.
• Advise housekeeping staff when rooms have been vacated and are ready for cleaning.

To do this kind of work, you must be able to:

• Be an outgoing, welcoming personality for the Hotel.
• Use logical thinking and personal judgment to perform a variety of office tasks that require special skills and knowledge.
• Make decisions based on your own judgment and company policy.
• Follow instructions without close supervision.
• Speak and write clearly and accurately.
• Be available for work days, evenings, weekends and holidays.

Physical Demands:

Lifting 10 lbs. maximum and occasionally lifting and/or carrying such articles as dockets, ledgers, and small tools. Walking and standing are required only occasionally. Reaching, handling, feeling, talking, hearing, and seeing.

Environmental Conditions:

Inside: Protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes. A job is considered “inside” if the worker spends approximately 75% or more of the time inside.

Math Skills:

Requires mathematical development sufficient to be able to: Compute discount, interest, profit and loss, commission, markups and selling price, ratio and proportion, and percentages. Calculate surface, volumes, weights and measures.

Language Skills:

Must have developed language skills to the point to be able to: Read newspapers, periodicals, journals, and manuals. Write business letters, summaries and reports using prescribed format and conforming to all rules of punctuation, grammar, diction and style. Participate in discussions and debates. Speak extemporaneously on a variety of subjects.

Relationships to Data, People and Things:

Data:

Compiling: Gathering, collating, or classifying information about data, people or things. Reporting and/or carrying out a prescribed action in relation to the information is frequently involved.

People:

Speaking-Signaling: Talking with and/or signaling people to convey or exchange information. Includes giving assignments and/or directions to helpers or assistants.

Things:

Operating-Controlling: Starting, stopping, controlling and adjusting the progress of machines or equipment. Operating machines involves setting up and adjusting the machine or materials as the work progresses. Controlling involves observing and turning devices to regulate reactions of materials.

Specific Vocational Preparation:

Proficiency in Microsoft Office Professional with an emphasis on Word, PowerPoint and Excel to format and create professional documents to be used and distributed on the executive level. Candidate must have strong organizational skills and ability to prioritize duties to complete within required deadlines. Creativity to accomplish required tasks, such as documents being appealing to the eye, to find and research various information needed to complete and compile reports.