Front Office Manager

• Train, cross-train and retrain all front office personnel. • Participates in the selection of front office personnel. • Schedules the front office staff. • Supervises workload during shifts. • Evaluates the job performance if each front office employee. • Maintains working relationships and communicates with all departments. • Maintains master key control. • Verifies that accurate room status information 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. • Receives information from the previous shift manager and passes on pertinent details to the oncoming manager. • Checks cashiers in and out and verifies banks and deposits at the end of each shift. • Enforces all cash-handling, check-cashing, and credit policies. • 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 the hotel's commitment to hospitality. • Prepare performance reports related to the front office. • Maximize room revenue and occupancy by reviewing status daily. Analyse rate variance, monitor credit report and maintain close observation of daily house count. Monitor the selling status of the house daily. Ie flash report, allowance, etc. • Monitor high balance guests and take appropriate action. • Ensure the implementation of all hotel policies. • Operate all aspects of the Front Office computer system, including software maintenance. • Prepare revenue and occupancy forecasting. • Ensure logging and delivery of all messages, 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 of V.I.P 's special guests and requests. • Maintain required pars of all front office and stationery supplies. • Review daily front office work and activity reports generated by Night Audit. • Review Front Office log book and Guest feedback forms daily. • Maintain an organized and comprehensive filing system with documentation of purchases, vouchering, schedules, forecasts, reports and tracking logs. • Perform other duties as requested by management.