IT Specialist

About Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts: 

At Four Seasons, we believe in recognizing a familiar face, welcoming a new one and treating everyone we meet the way we would want to be treated ourselves. Whether you work with us, stay with us, live with us or discover with us, we believe our purpose is to create impressions that will stay with you for a lifetime. It comes from our belief that life is richer when we truly connect to the people and the world around us. At Four Seasons, our company values are much more than a program or a policy; they define who we are and inform the decisions we make. The company's guiding principle is the Golden Rule, and as such Four Seasons strives to have a long-lasting, positive influence on the communities where we operate and on the people we employ and serve around the world. 

Sited near the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, historic St. Louis continues to invite exploration. Find the luxurious Hotel, a haven of tranquility with epic views of the Gateway Arch, in the heart of downtown's entertainment district, just steps away from Horseshoe Casino, the pulse of St. Louis. 

People Functions:

• Maintain harmonious and professional relationship with all departments and Home Office.

• Comply with and enforce Four Seasons’ Category One and Category Two Work Rules and Standards of Conduct as set forth in EmPact.
• Must have good interpersonal skills and be able to relate to all levels of staff.
• Must be able to assist hotel guests with technical requirements and issues.
• Must be able to provide high levels of service and support to admin users as per contracted Service Level Agreement.
• Assist in other areas of the accounting office as needed.

Product Functions:

• Ensuring critical systems, specifically Front Office Property Management System, Call Accounting, HSIA, PABX and Food & Beverage Point of Sales computer systems are available twenty-four (24) hours per day.
• Assist with establishing and maintaining user procedures and hardware familiarization for all systems.
• Assist in providing Systems Administration, including maintaining user/group accounts, user configuration, trouble-shooting access problems and completion of on-site documentation.
• Assist in Server infrastructure management, performance monitoring, Operating System upgrades and troubleshooting.
• Ensuring effective support for other systems, including back office, sales and catering and human resources applications and any other at the property.
• Providing system support services, including service outage diagnosis, troubleshooting and restoration of service, virus protection management.
• Maintaining and promoting Four Seasons core technology standards as outlined in the Four Seasons IT Core Standards.
• Assist in the co-ordination of new acquisitions and major projects as required.
• Participate in property-level, corporate-initiated technology implementations as required.
• Good knowledge and support for Desktop OS and applications including patches.
• Provide direct guest support and quality support to function rooms and conference services.
• Assist with administration of Office 365, connection to global VPN and other communication tools.
• Assist in the process of systems backup and recovery procedures.
• Assist in management of third party vendors.
• Provide 24 / 7 support for mission critical systems.
• Assist at network support and security of Hotel network, Active Directory maintenance, Server Infrastructure maintenance, Network Infrastructure maintenance – wired & wireless, Network protection and failover tools implementation (Firewall, web security, multi-homing devices, etc).
• Perform any additional duties as assigned by the Director of Finance/Assistant Director of Finance or Director of IT.

Profit Functions:

• Implement technology “best practices”.
• Provide HSIA Guest and Customer support when no contract with third parties exists.

Four Seasons is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. Minorities, women, veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. To access the 'EEOC is The Law' Information poster please visit this website - https://eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/migrated_files/employers/poster_screen_reader_optimized.pdf