Hotel Front Desk Agent

Company: Red Roof Inn - Syracuse
Location: Syracuse
Posted on: January 26, 2023

Job Description:

Hotel Front Desk/Night Audit

The Front Desk is responsible for maintaining positive guest interactions while courteously responding to their needs and requests for necessary service transactions, and tasks. This position is critical to ensuring quality service to our guests and upholding hotel standards while working with other members of the hotel, maintaining room quality as well as safety and security of the hotel.

Responsibilities:
--- Welcome guests with friendly greetings and smiles and perform all guest-related services. (i.e. wake up/courtesy calls; handle concerns/complaints/requests; provide coffee/newspaper and location information; keep the lobby clean and orderly).
--- Handle reservation requests; check guests in/out; handle guest accounting and cashier functions.
--- Make, change and monitor reservations; review and report rate availability using the front desk computer system; update and monitor room status, and promote future sales.
--- Maintain confidentiality of guest information and pertinent hotel data.
--- Perform daily cash count; prepare bank deposits and review audit packages.
--- Complete reporting for daily occupancy/revenue, weekly inn operations, expenditures ledger and update corporate memorandum and/or operations manuals.
--- Communicate with Inn Management and other employees, as needed, about problems, requests and/or concerns regarding guests or rooms.
--- Work with housekeeping to communicate checkouts, stay-overs, sleepers, skips, rooms cleaned, and rooms in need of maintenance.
--- Cross-train in all front desk shifts and other departments in the hotel; Train new hires in front desk functions.
--- Night Audit shift requires daily reconciliation of transactions and preparing audit packages for hotel Management approval.
--- Comply with all OSHA standards.
--- Provide special services for guests upon request.
--- Assist in coordinating special events (i.e. holiday gatherings, bus tours, on-site, etc.).
--- Performs other duties as assigned. -

Qualifications:
--- 1-2 years in a previous customer service position preferred.
--- Basic office skills (i.e. math, cash handling, computer skills, timekeeping, etc.).
--- Must maintain a professional appearance in the provided uniform with a consistently friendly attitude toward guests and staff.
--- Must be able to easily and frequently change from one task to another while operating a computer and/or switchboard and work with minimal supervision.
--- Basic English communication (verbal and written) skills are required.
--- May be required to work nights, weekends and/or holidays.

About Company:
At Red Roof Inn our goal is to make sure that our guests have a great experience and it all could start with you.

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