Booth Clerk

VALLARTA SUPERMARKETS•Los Angeles, CA

12d•$18 - $20•Onsite

About The Position

The Booth Clerk handles customer transactions and front-end cash-control duties, including check cashing, money orders, MoneyGram, stamps, lottery products, and payouts for lottery winners. The role distributes employee equipment and manages cashier tills, loans, change drawers, sales verification, tender separation, and end-of-day cash and report closeouts. The clerk also provides telephone and mail support, answers customer inquiries, maintains logs and lost-and-found items, supports back-office tasks, and helps with company promotions as needed.

Responsibilities

Verify funds, customer telephone information, and employment for check-cashing transactions.
Sell money orders, stamps, lotto tickets, and scratchers; send and receive MoneyGram transactions.
Distribute optional Vallarta employee equipment, such as T-shirts and name badges.
Pay out scratcher and lotto winners.
Count and verify cashier tills; issue and receive tills; verify tills against sales at cashier closeout and identify balancing errors.
Monitor that cashiers do not exceed 15 minutes when balancing tills; request cashier readings from the Front End Manager.
Separate tenders in each compartment after verifying cashier tills.
Close out the Big Bag containing money, credit cards, vouchers, checks, and other items by 11:00 p.m.
Verify loans and change drawers at the beginning of shifts, during shift changes, and at the end of shifts.
Pull daily closeout reports for money orders, MoneyGram, lotto, scratchers, and related activities.
Answer company telephone calls, transfer calls to requested departments, and send and receive calls from departments.
Send and receive mail; receive and distribute faxes.
Answer customer inquiries about winning lotto numbers, money-order prices, MoneyGram, meat prices, and orders.
Contact police and other emergency agencies when needed.
Receive and log NSF check payments, space-rental payments, and loss-prevention payments in receipt books.
Monitor lost and found and the Vallarta American Express card, logging the card in the designated book.
Hand cigarette sales to the Front End Manager.
Issue vendor checks and issue and sign off employee checks.
Help the back office when needed and help prepare coupons for the clearing house.
Ensure all cashier tills and safes are locked before closing the booth.
Assist with and participate in company marketing promotions and programs as needed.