Front Office Manager

Duties and Responsibilities 

• Trains, cross–trains, and retrains 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

• Reviews and completes credit limit report.

• 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.

• 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 front office.

• Maximize room revenue and occupancy by reviewing status daily. Analyze rate variance, monitor credit report, and maintain close observation of daily house count. Monitor selling status of house daily. Ie flash report, allowance, etc

• Monitor high balance guest and take appropriate action

• Ensure implementation of all hotel policies and house rules

• 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 V.I.P 's special guests and requests.

• 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.

• Competitive salary package
• Other perks in accordance with the company's policies and the state regulations.

What we need from you:

• Experience: At least 3 year experience as an FO manager.
• Familiar with Opera PMS system
• Proficiency in English communication.
• Computer literate and knowledge of computer system.
• Strong managerial and leadership skills and strong result-oriented.
• Strong in analytical, problem solving skills, and execution of work.
• Strong inter-personality skills.
• Well-presented and professionally groomed at all times.