About the Role
The Guest Service Representative/Night Auditor is responsible for creating a welcoming environment, managing guest check-ins and check-outs, handling payments, and coordinating with various hotel departments to ensure smooth operations and excellent guest service.
Responsibilities
- Create a welcoming environment for guests.
- Register guests and assign rooms, accommodating special requests.
- Complete pre-registration and blocking of rooms for reservations/guest arrival.
- 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.
- Use suggestive selling techniques to sell rooms and promote hotel services.
- Coordinate room status updates with housekeeping.
- Understand reservations, take reservations, and cancellation procedures.
- Process guest check-outs and settle accounts.
- Post and file all charges to guest, master, and city ledger accounts.
- Work closely with all hotel departments to improve service delivery and efficiency.
- Use proper telephone etiquette.
- Coordinate guestroom maintenance work with engineering and maintenance.
- 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.
- Posting balances to all guest rooms and closing out the day's transactions; running accounts receivable reports; providing next-day reports to the Front Office, Executive Office, and other departments.
- Verify and balance daily charges for all departments to customer folios, master accounts, and house accounts; make corrections as needed.
- Run computer through nightly processing sequence to reset for next day's 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.
Requirements
- Excellent communication skills in English.
- Must be able to speak, read, write, and understand the primary language(s) used in the workplace.
- Excellent organizational, interpersonal, and administrative skills.
- Proficient or familiar with computerized systems.
- Demonstrated knowledge of guest service and a genuine desire to exceed guest expectations.
- Present a high degree of professional work ethic and image.
- High school graduate or equivalent.
- Availability to work day, evening, and night shifts any day of the week including weekends and holidays.
Skills
- Guest service
- Communication skills
- Organizational skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Administrative skills
- Computerized systems proficiency
- Cash handling
- Telephone etiquette
- Suggestive selling
Location
- Canada
Work Type
- Full-time
- Day shifts
- Evening shifts
- Night shifts
Education Level
- High school graduate or equivalent
About the Company
- InnVest Hotels manages a portfolio of 100 hotels across 18 internationally recognized brands, making us Canada’s largest independent hotel owner.
- Our management team also oversees day-to-day operations at nearly 90 additional hotels, making InnVest the largest independent operator in the country.
- Our properties span from Vancouver, BC to Corner Brook, NL, and range from roadside inns to luxury urban hotels, offering a diverse and dynamic hospitality experience.
- At InnVest, our mission is simple: deliver outstanding guest experiences and strong returns on quality hospitality investments.
- A career with us provides unique growth opportunities and invaluable exposure to Canada’s largest independently owned and operated hotel portfolio.
- To Learn more about InnVest visit https://innvesthotels.com/
Equal Opportunity
- People with disabilities are encouraged to apply, and accommodations are available upon request throughout the hiring process.
- InnVest is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.
