Weekend Overnight Front Desk Agent - Los Angeles, United States - Holiday Inn Express - West LA

Description

Essential Functions and Responsibilities of the job include but are not limited to:

• Maintain a friendly, cheerful and courteous demeanor at all times, while providing personalized service to hotel guests.
• Communicate effectively with guests and fellow team members.
• Greet arriving guests and complete established checkin procedures on a daily basis in order to ensure that guests are fully satisfied.
• Facilitate guest departures on a daily basis by following established procedures in order to close guest accounts and determine future room availability.
• Regularly calculate and/or post monies, receipts, guest accounts and other forms of credit using proper cash handling methods and established procedures in order to present the guest with accurate hotel charges upon checkout.
• Courteously answer inquiries and accept reservations, both in person and over the phone, by utilizing DKN's reservation guidelines. Accurately and professionally communicate hotel rates and information, utilize suggestive selling techniques, demonstrate advantages and create value for our guests.
• Maintain good guest relations by keeping abreast of all inhouse and area functions in order to answer questions and concerns with timely and knowledgeable responses in person and on the phone.
• Operate the PBX equipment by accepting incoming calls and assisting outgoing calls, setting wakeup calls and communicating to guests to ensure timely and efficient service.
• Control and balance cash and credit transactions at the front desk and maintain complete responsibility for personal bank as specified by hotel policy.
• Run night audit final after insuring all revenues are in balance nightly.
• Provide assistance to other team members and departments to contribute to the best overall performance of the department and hotel.
• Deliver DKN's "Home Away From Home" experience
• Perform other duties as assigned, requested or deemed necessary by management.

*Management retains the discretion to add or change the duties of the position at any time.


Supervisory Responsibility:
None


Independent Judgment Used:
Only within the guidelines established by management and to the extent of operating within the Company policies and procedures.


Working Conditions/Environment:
Front desk/lobby area. Access to entire interior and exterior of property.


Job Types:
Full-time, Part-time


Pay:
$ $21.00 per hour

Expected hours: 16 per week


Benefits:

• Health insurance
• Paid time off

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Holidays
• Monday to Friday
• Night shift
• Weekends as needed

Work setting:

• Inperson

Work Location:
In person