Jodie Smith

Payroll

• Building rotas for a 20 person bar and floor team which is spread across 3 floors
• Working to a labour cost goal between £11,000-£11,500 depending on forecasted sales; this varies with bank holidays
• Working with varying schedules as many members of staff are students and ensuring that if their needs can be met they are
• Approving/rejecting holiday requests
• Liaising with the sales manager about upcoming events that will require extra staffing
• Consistently working to save labour wherever possible by sending staff home when they're not needed; extending shifts to help with private hires rather than having an additional member of staff in
• Ensuring all clock ins and clock out times are correct and having everything approved ready for the owners to process payslips

Premises Responsibilities

• Opening and closing the venue
• Served as point of contact for ADT, addressing issues to ensure venue security

Day-to-day Running Duties

• Creating shift briefs
• Liaising with the bookings and events manager and also using Access Collins to manage bookings myself
• Communicate the day's events with the team and management
• Delegating jobs and responsibilities for the day
• Overseeing bar and floor teams
• Handovers to duty managers
• Consumables orders

Money Handling

• Safe and till counts, including money pick-ups
• Handling petty cash
• Completing a weekly statement of business, matching up pay-outs and petty cash receipts
• Taking and redeeming deposits for functions

Stock handling

• Completing weekly full stock takes/line checks
• Analysing stock reports and investigating any discrepancies
• Implementing strategies to reduce stock wastage and team errors
• Dealing with external stock auditors (Venners)
• Training others on stock taking procedures
• Submitting stock and gas orders, and managing deliveries
• Keeping stock areas organised and functional
• Line cleaning and recording wastage

Team Growth and training

• Managing bar supervisors and staff supporting them with their responsibilities and progression, creating development plans where needed and having 1-2-1 meetings.
• Reviewing job applications and conducting interviews
• Work with other managers in creating an extensive training plan to support new starters

• Performed general waitressing and bartending duties.