Compliance & Audit Manager

Grow Your Career with Flynn Hospitality

At Flynn Hospitality, we’re not just in the hotel business — we’re in the people business. Our mission? To become the premier hotel franchise operator in the world.

But to us, being “Premier” isn’t just a title. It’s a commitment to excellence in everything we do — from creating memorable guest experiences to fostering a workplace where our people thrive.

We are hiring a Compliance & Audit Manager based at our corporate office in Las Colinas, Texas. This role is ideal for a compliance professional with strong audit experience who can help ensure our growing, multi-entity hospitality portfolio meets federal, state, and local regulatory requirements.

Position Summary

Flynn Hospitality is seeking a detail-oriented and highly organized Compliance Manager to oversee regulatory compliance, audit coordination, documentation, and issue resolution across a growing hospitality portfolio.

Instead, the Compliance & Audit Manager will partner with Finance, Operations, and external advisors to ensure required filings and payments are completed accurately and timely, compliance obligations are properly documented, and the company is prepared for internal and external audits.

The ideal candidate will have a strong audit background, experience managing compliance across multiple entities and jurisdictions, and the ability to identify risks, improve controls, and drive issues through resolution.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Audit Management and Regulatory Compliance

• Lead and coordinate state, and local audits, including gathering documentation, responding to information requests, tracking deadlines, and managing follow-up items.
• Serve as the primary internal point of contact for regulatory audits, agency inquiries, notices, and compliance reviews.
• Review audit findings, identify root causes, and coordinate corrective action plans with appropriate internal departments.
• Maintain organized audit files, supporting documentation, correspondence, and resolution records.
• Track open audit items and compliance issues through final resolution.
• Assist with internal compliance reviews to identify potential risks before they result in penalties, assessments, or operational disruption.
• Monitor regulatory requirements affecting the company and communicate relevant changes to business partners.

Multi-State and Hospitality Compliance

• Oversee compliance requirements across multiple legal entities, properties, and jurisdictions.
• Monitor compliance related to sales and use tax, occupancy tax, gross receipts tax, business licenses, and other applicable regulatory obligations.
• Confirm that required filings and payments prepared by internal teams or external providers are completed accurately and timely.
• Review supporting documentation and reconciliations for completeness, accuracy, and audit readiness.
• Coordinate compliance requirements associated with new property acquisitions, management transitions, openings, and dispositions.
• Research jurisdictional requirements and work with internal teams and external advisors to resolve complex compliance questions.
• Maintain a centralized compliance calendar of filing deadlines, renewals, audit dates, and regulatory obligations.

Internal Controls and Risk Management

• Evaluate existing compliance processes and internal controls for effectiveness and consistency.
• Identify gaps, risks, and opportunities for process improvement.
• Develop and maintain compliance policies, procedures, checklists, and documentation standards.
• Partner with Finance, Legal, Operations, and property leadership to strengthen controls and reduce compliance risk.
• Establish procedures to ensure supporting records are accurate, complete, accessible, and retained in accordance with company requirements.
• Assist leadership with compliance risk assessments and status reporting.
• Escalate significant compliance concerns, recurring issues, and unresolved risks to appropriate leadership.

Notices, Assessments, and Issue Resolution

• Review and coordinate responses to government notices, assessments, penalties, and agency correspondence.
• Research discrepancies and work with internal departments, external advisors, and…