Maricar Celis Balbanida

• Highlights:
  I am currently the leader of the Colleague Welfare Committee. The purpose of the Colleague Welfare Committee is to organize sports, social and recreational events for the enjoyment of staff members throughout the year and discuss issues related to staff facilities and provide constructive recommendation to Talent & Culture.
• I was shortlisted on the Leaders in Hospitality Awards 2023 (The only Female nominee) as Hospitality Executive of the Year.
• Nominated for Hotelier Middle East Awards 2023 for the Unsung Hero of the Year

Day to Day Responsibilities

• In absence of the General Manager and / or Hotel Manager, established in form of short notes daily reports about major happenings in the hotel for his information
• Ensure proper business correspondence, memoranda, reports and forms, including those of confidential nature
• Maintaining a filing system for diverse data, memorandums and correspondence
• Prepare minutes of meetings and transcribes dictation from the GM
• Answering and channeling phone calls, arranging and reminding appointments for GM
• Receives and screens office callers and visitor's schedule and sets up appointments
• Performs duties common to all Department Heads and other duties as may be assigned
• Establishes in co-ordination with the Hotel Manager and General Manager the monthly planning of the manager on duty roaster of the department heads
• Administers the gathering of necessary data in order to establish weekly attendance forecast for Department Heads; working days and days off both for HM & GM overview
• Keeps trace for daily briefings re: Follow-up and important information
• Arranging the Flights including Hotel bookings whether its business or personal trip of GM.

• Managing calendars, scheduling meetings, appointments, preparation of presentation, meeting minutes, etc
• Provides assistance and overall in-charge of Engineering Administrative Task
• Handling the payroll system of the department, process Vacation Leave, Sick Leave and other employee related issues of the department
• Responsible in handling and safekeeping of documents both softcopy and hardcopy e.g
• AMC contracts, Service reports
• Review both new and renewal of Contracts, preparing of comparison sheet and RFA for further approval of the management
• Assisting and involve in preparing the FF&E and department Budget
• Responsible in preparing Memos, email correspondences and various letters
• Monitoring, processing the approval of FF&E and all other projects status
• Communicate and assisting with the outside companies and contractors, assisting for maintenance, meetings and appointments
• Preparing the Daily, Monthly and utilities Report in coordination with the rest of the team
• Handling Guest Request and Complaints with regards to the Maintenance
• Raising Purchase Request, Receiving Materials for all materials
• Conducting the Monthly Eng
• Store inventory with Cost Control team.