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Night auditor CV — example
Header
[Full Name] [Town, UK] · [phone] · [email]
Professional summary
Night auditor with five years on hotel nights, currently running the end-of-day for a 180-bedroom city-centre hotel on Opera PMS as the sole member of staff on the desk from 11pm to 7am. Responsible for the nightly reconciliation of rooms, restaurant, bar and car park revenue, the morning reports and the building overnight. First Aid at Work and fire warden trained. Looking for a night manager role or a larger property.
Core skills
End-of-day and date roll (Opera PMS, Mews) · Trial balance and rate checks Cash, card and ledger reconciliation · Rate override and posting corrections Morning reports: occupancy, arrivals, revenue by outlet · Credit limit review Late check-ins, early departures and no-show handling · Group arrivals Lone working and building security · Fire panel and evacuation procedure Tevalis EPOS interface checks · Overnight guest complaints
Experience
Night Auditor — 180-bedroom city-centre hotel, Liverpool Oct 2022 – present · Run the end-of-day on Opera PMS, checking the trial balance, rate variances and open folios before the date roll. · Reconcile cash, card terminals and the Tevalis EPOS interface against restaurant, bar and car park postings, and raise any variance for the finance assistant by 7am. · Produce the morning pack for the general manager and heads of department: occupancy, arrivals and departures, revenue by outlet and credit limits. · Handle late check-ins, early departures and overnight complaints alone, with the duty manager on call for escalations. · Act as fire warden for the building overnight, including two alarm activations handled to full evacuation and reset. Night Receptionist — 100-bedroom hotel, Chester Mar 2021 – Sep 2022 · Ran the desk from 11pm to 7am on Mews, including the end-of-day routine and the morning arrivals list. · Checked in late arrivals, posted charges and settled early departures. · Prepared breakfast sign-in sheets and set up the lobby for the day team. Receptionist — 70-bedroom hotel, Warrington Jun 2019 – Feb 2021 · Checked guests in and out on Opera, handled payments and deposits and managed the daily arrivals list. · Took reservations by phone and email and processed OTA amendments. · Cashed up the desk float and reconciled card terminals at shift end.
Education and certifications
First Aid at Work (3-day) — 2023 Fire Warden Training — 2022 Level 2 Health and Safety in the Workplace — 2022 Lone Working Awareness — 2022 Level 2 Food Safety and Hygiene for Catering (room service) — 2021 Personal Licence (APLH Level 2) — 2024 Level 2 Diploma in Front of House Reception — 2019
Additional
Systems: Opera PMS, Mews, Tevalis EPOS, card terminal reconciliation, Microsoft Excel (morning reports) Availability: permanent nights, including weekends and bank holidays
Templates that suit this example
- Essential — One column and standard headings, which suits a role where the reader checks systems and procedures first.
- Compact Scan — Dense and scannable, for a CV built around reconciliation steps and the systems they run on.
- Modern Rail — A side rail keeps the PMS list, certifications and shift availability in view.
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Professional summary
- Why it matters.
- A front office manager hiring for nights is checking two things at once: can you run the end-of-day on their PMS without supervision, and can you be left alone in the building. The summary should answer both.
- A strong version.
- Hotel size, the PMS, whether you work alone or as part of a nights team, what you reconcile, who gets your morning reports, and the safety training you hold. Then the role you want.
- Common mistake.
- Writing a receptionist summary with "nights" added. The audit, the reconciliation and the lone working are the job; guest service is the part that carries over.
Core skills
- Why it matters.
- Night audit has a specific procedural vocabulary — trial balance, date roll, rate variance, open folios, credit limit report. Using it tells the reader you have done the routine, not just watched it.
- A strong version.
- The steps of the end-of-day you have run, the reconciliations you do, the reports you produce, the PMS and EPOS systems you have done them on, and the safety responsibilities you hold.
- Common mistake.
- Listing only guest-service skills. They matter, but a night auditor CV without reconciliation vocabulary reads as a day receptionist CV.
Experience
- Why it matters.
- A 60-bedroom hotel with a part-time night porter and a 300-bedroom hotel with a nights team are different jobs. Bedroom count, outlets you reconcile, whether you were alone, and the PMS are what place you.
- A strong version.
- Hotel size, the PMS, the outlets and interfaces you reconcile, who you report to in the morning, the incidents you have handled, and the hours. Describe the routine you ran, not the job description.
- Common mistake.
- Vague accuracy claims — "99% accuracy" — with nothing behind them. Say what you check, what you reconcile and who you raise variances to; the accuracy follows from that.
Certifications
- Why it matters.
- Night auditors are frequently the only member of staff in the building. First aid, fire warden training and lone working awareness are often a condition of the job rather than a bonus.
- A strong version.
- First aid, fire warden, health and safety and lone working first, each dated. Then food safety if you handle room service, and a Personal Licence if the role covers a late bar.
- Common mistake.
- Leaving off fire training because it was done in-house. If you have handled an alarm activation, say so — it is evidence no certificate gives.
Additional
- Why it matters.
- Hotels hire night auditors for a specific PMS, and a change of system is the main thing they would otherwise have to train. Permanent night availability is the other question they will ask.
- A strong version.
- The PMS and EPOS systems you have actually run the end-of-day on, the reports you produce in Excel, and a plain statement of your night and weekend availability.
- Common mistake.
- Listing systems you have only seen used on the day shift. A front office manager will ask which ones you have rolled the date on.
If your experience looks different
Most people are not the candidate in the example. Three common situations, and what to change for each.
No night experience — moving from day reception to nights
Your summary. Lead with the PMS you already use and say plainly that you want to move to nights. "Receptionist with two years on Opera, looking for a first night auditor role" tells the reader what they would need to teach you.
What to emphasise. Cashing up and card reconciliation at shift end, posting corrections, late shifts you have covered, any end-of-day steps you have been shown, and your comfort working alone.
Bullets you could adapt
- ·Cashed up the desk float and reconciled [X] card terminals at the end of each shift on [PMS].
- ·Covered the late shift handover to the night auditor, including the open folio check and the arrivals list.
- ·Sat with the night auditor for [X] shifts to learn the end-of-day routine and the morning reports.
Certifications. Emergency First Aid at Work and a fire warden course. Together they answer the question a hotel asks before leaving anyone alone in the building overnight.
Some experience — going for night manager
Your summary. Name the step and shift the emphasis from running the audit to running the night: the team, the incidents, the duty manager decisions, and the relationship with finance and the heads of department in the morning.
What to emphasise. Night porters or receptionists you have supervised, incidents you managed without escalation, procedures you wrote or improved, billing errors you found and corrected, and any time you held the duty manager phone.
Bullets you could adapt
- ·Supervised a nights team of [X], including the rota, breaks and the handover to the day team.
- ·Held the duty manager phone on nights for [X] months, handling guest incidents and contractor access.
- ·Found and corrected [X] posting and rate override errors a month, feeding the pattern back to the front office manager.
Certifications. First Aid at Work (3-day), a Personal Licence, and IOSH Working Safely or Level 2 health and safety. An SIA licence is a genuine advantage in city-centre properties.
Moving into night audit from finance, security or retail
Your summary. Lead with the reconciliation, cash handling or overnight responsibility you already have, and be clear that the hotel systems are new. A bookkeeper, a security officer or a late-night retail supervisor each bring half of this job with them.
What to emphasise. Cash and card reconciliation, end-of-day or end-of-month routines, lone working or overnight shifts, incident handling, and any front-of-house customer contact.
Bullets you could adapt
- ·Reconciled daily takings across [X] tills and raised variances for the finance team by the next morning.
- ·Worked [X] overnight shifts a month as the sole member of staff on site, including alarm response and incident logs.
- ·Completed Emergency First Aid at Work and fire warden training ahead of moving into hotel nights.
Certifications. Emergency First Aid at Work and fire warden training first. An online introduction to Opera or Mews is not a certificate, but it is worth naming if you have done one.
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