Internal Control Consultant; Temporary

Pay Rate: $48.00 per hour
Employment Type: Temporary-to-Hire

Assignment Duration: Up to 12 months, with the opportunity to transition to a regular, full-time position based on business needs and performance

Location: Denver Tech Center, Colorado
Reports To: Regional Director of Finance, with a dotted line to VP Finance, North America

Travel: Less than 40%

As our Internal Control Consultant
, you will play a critical role in strengthening internal controls, risk management, and audit readiness across our U.S. hotel portfolio. This temporary-to-hire opportunity is designed for an experienced internal controls, audit, risk, or finance professional who can help establish consistent control practices, identify and mitigate risks, and drive sustainable process improvements across our hotel operations.

During the initial assignment, you will serve as a central resource for control governance, testing, monitoring, and Internal Audit coordination. You will partner closely with Finance, Operations, IT, HR, Legal, hotel leadership, and regional teams to identify control gaps, strengthen processes, coordinate remediation, and promote consistent practices across our properties.

The assignment is expected to last up to 12 months, with the potential to transition into a regular, full-time position based on business needs, performance, and mutual fit.

This role is ideal for a proactive, analytical, and highly organized professional who works independently, builds strong cross-functional relationships, and can influence stakeholders across a multi-property hospitality environment.

You will help strengthen the overall control environment across our U.S. hotel portfolio by identifying risks, improving processes, supporting audit readiness, and ensuring corrective actions are effectively implemented.

Your work will help reduce repeat audit findings, improve consistency across hotels, strengthen compliance, and support efficient and well-controlled hotel operations.

• Document, review, and maintain key financial and operational controls across U.S. hotel operations, including the Regional Finance & Controls Manual.
• Design and implement practical, scalable controls to address identified gaps, regulatory and tax requirements, company policy changes, and emerging risks.
• Perform regular control testing, spot checks, targeted reviews, and risk assessments across hotel locations.
• Maintain and monitor a U.S. financial and operational risk register, ensuring mitigating actions are assigned, tracked, and completed.
• Review hotel compliance and control self-assessment checklists and follow up on identified gaps.
• Evaluate whether control issues identified at one hotel may present a broader risk across the U.S. portfolio and coordinate appropriate corrective actions.
• Support the consistent application of internal controls across the hotel portfolio.

• Serve as the primary liaison with Internal Audit for U.S. hotel operations.
• Coordinate audit requests and ensure timely collection of accurate documentation and supporting evidence.
• Review Internal Audit responses and supporting documentation prior to submission.
• Lead and coordinate remediation of Internal Audit findings.
• Track corrective actions through completion and communicate status to appropriate leadership.
• Identify root causes of repeat findings and develop sustainable solutions to prevent recurrence.
• Proactively identify potential audit risks and recommend corrective action before formal reviews.
• Support preparation for internal and external audits as needed.

• Partner with Finance, IT, Operations, HR, Legal,…