Job Description
Duties and Responsibilities
- Trains, cross–trains, and retrains all front office personnel.
- Schedulesthefront office staff.
- Supervises workload during shifts.
- Evaluates the job performance if each front office employee.
- Maintains working relationships andcommunicateswith all departments.
- Maintainsmaster keycontrol.
- Verifies that accurateroom statusinformation is maintained and properly communicated.
- Resolves guest problems quickly, efficiently, and courteously.
- Updates group information. Maintains, monitors, and prepares group requirements. Relays information to appropriate personnel.
- Reviews and completescredit limitreport.
- Works within the allocated budget for the front office.
- Receives information from the previous shift manger and passes on pertinent details to the oncoming manager.
- Checkscashiersin and out and verifies banks and deposits at the end of each shift.
- Enforces all cash-handling, check-cashing, andcreditpolicies.
- Conducts regularly scheduled meetings of front office personnel.
- Wears the proper uniform at all times. Requires all front office employees to wear proper uniforms at all times.
- Upholds thehotel's commitment tohospitality.
- Prepare performance reports related to front office.
- Maximize room revenue andoccupancyby reviewingstatusdaily. Analyze rate variance, monitor credit report and maintain close observation of dailyhouse count. Monitor selling status of house daily. Ie flash report,allowanceetc.
- Monitor highbalanceguest and take appropriate action.
- Ensure implementation of all hotel policies and house rules.
- Operate all aspects of Front Officecomputersystem, including software maintenance, report generation andanalysis, and simple configuration changes.
- Prepare revenue and occupancyforecasting.
- Ensure logging and delivery of allmessages,packages, and mail in a timely and professional manner.
- Ensure that employees are, at all times, attentive, friendly, helpful and courteous to all guests managers and other employees.
- Monitor all V.I.P’s special guests and requests.
- Maintain required pars of all front office and stationary supplies.
- Review daily front office work and activity reports generated byNight Audit.
- Review Front officelog bookand Guest feedback forms on a daily basis.
- Maintain an organised and comprehensive filing system withdocumentationof purchases, vouchering, schedules,forecasts, reports and tracking logs.
- Perform other duties as requested by management.
Requirements
- BSc in any related field.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in 5-Star Hotel.
- Proficiency in Hotel Management Software (OPERA)