Description

The duties and responsibilities for the Guest Service Representative/Night Auditor include, but are not limited to the following:

• Create a welcoming setting for 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.
• Uses 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.
• Coordinate guestroom maintenance work with the engineering and maintenance division.
• Report any unusual occurrences or requests to the manager or supervisor.
• Register guests into their guest rooms as per reservations & check out guests and settles accounts; collect and verify payments – cash, debit, and credit and maintain a float.
• Post guest charges, compute guest bills, collect payments and make changes for hotel guests following all cash handling procedures as required by Hotel.
• posting balances to all guest rooms and closing out the days transactions; running accounts receivable reports; providing next-day reports to the Front Office, Executive Office, and other departments as required.
• 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 days 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.
• Know all safety and emergency procedures, and 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.