What are the responsibilities and job description for the Accounting Clerk position at Crescent Hotels & Resorts?
ESSENTIAL DUTIES
Group billing experience is required.
Verify accuracy of figures, calculations, and postings pertaining to business transactions recorded in OnQ and Micros:
- Compile and analyze reports from the Micros (F&B) and OnQ (property management) systems, to verify ProfitSage values.
- Analyze and adjust for various room revenue postings that cause ProfitSage to misstate room revenue.
- Analyze and adjust for House Usage of F&B outlets.
- Verify and distribute other accounts in ProfitSage.
- Log any entries that need to be made outside of ProfitSage and provide details to Director of Finance daily.
- Calculate daily system values for each cashier and enter them in ProfitSage, ensuring the totals balance.
- Prepare reconciliation comparing ProfitSage revenues/ledger values to PMS.
- Prepare daily reports as required.
- Print or prepare, and scan, various reports to myDigitalOffice.
Perform Accounts Receivable duties:
- Verify group rooming lists with the assistance of Reservations.
- Create and/or maintain of accounts for groups and functions.
- Responsible for all functions related to the Group folder. This includes set-up, sales contract, signed BEO forms, banquet checks, all charges, rooming lists, advanced deposits, and ultimately invoicing the client
- Prepare an Accounts Receivable Aging report weekly, for review with the Director of Finance, the day of the credit meeting, at the end of each month.
- Post payments received by check, wire, and Sertifi.
- File copies of check stubs and check logs for A/R payments
- Answer billing inquiries from guests and groups
May need to assist with duties including, but not limited to, Income Audit, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, and/or General Cashier.
GENERAL DUTIES
- Know your work schedule and follow with reliability
- Work in a cooperative and friendly manner with fellow employees
- Maintain professional attire and personal hygiene
- Maintain clean, neat and orderly work area
- Perform your job according to standard operating procedures
- Read, understand and follow all policies, procedures and practices as stated in the employee handbook
- Implement management company and hotel’s safety and emergency policies and procedures (i.e. evacuation, first aid, etc) to include remove all safety hazards, following company’s OSHA Hazcom program, safe lifting techniques
- Utilize protective equipment, when applicable
- Promptly report substandard (unsafe) conditions to supervisor
- Promptly reports accidents, injuries, property damage or loss to supervisor
- Keep accurate communication flowing freely among all hotel departments
- Inform management promptly of any work-related problems or guest complaints
- Practice “CARE Hospitality” and provide guest satisfaction
- Promote the hotel through goodwill, courtesy and positive attitude
- Attend all scheduled training, classes and meetings
- Train other employees as directed by management
- Perform any reasonable request as assigned or directed by management
- Provide for a safe work environment by following all safety and security procedures and rules
- Arrange for reasonable accommodations for person(s) with disabilities
- Assist person(s) with a disability
- Comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws and ordinances as they apply to the hotel, quest and employees
- Post payments to city ledger accounts from the "received checks" list prepared by the Executive Office Administrative Assistant, on a daily basis
- File copies of check stubs and check logs for A/R payments
- Answer Accounts Receivables inquiries from guests and groups
- Research customer claims of invoice payments
- Follow up with group collection activity on any account over 30 days due
- Assist with any other accounting office tasks as instructed by the controller, assistant controller or credit manager
Previous accounting, group billing experience required!
Flexible schedule required.