Internal Control Consultant (Temporary-to-Hire)

Internal Control Consultant (Temporary-to-Hire)

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%
About the Role

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.
Your Impact

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.
What You'll Be Doing
Internal Controls & Risk Management

• 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.

Internal Audit & Remediation

• 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.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with Finance, IT, Operations, HR, Legal, hotel leadership, and regional teams on internal control and compliance initiatives.
• Support access controls, segregation of duties, system controls, and other key control requirements.
• Work with hotel Finance leaders to strengthen control awareness, documentation, and execution.
• Provide guidance and training to hotel Finance leaders regarding internal controls, audit readiness, and compliance expectations.
• Collaborate with Internal Control Managers in other regions to share best practices and promote consistent control and remediation approaches globally.

Process Improvement & Automation

• Identify opportunities to improve processes, strengthen controls, reduce risk, and increase operational efficiency.
• Evaluate opportunities to automate manual control activities and reporting.
• Share best practices across hotels and promote consistent processes throughout the U.S. portfolio.
• Develop practical tools, procedures, and guidance to help hotel teams effectively maintain internal controls.
• Monitor changes in systems, business processes, policies, and regulations and recommend appropriate updates to controls.

Reporting & Documentation

• Maintain accurate documentation of controls, testing, risk assessments, audit findings, and remediation activities.
• Prepare reports, dashboards, and updates for Regional and Corporate Finance leadership.
• Provide clear recommendations based on control testing, risk assessments, audit findings, and trend analysis.
• Maintain organized audit and control documentation to support transparency and audit readiness.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field preferred.

• Relevant experience in internal controls, internal audit, risk management, accounting, or financial operations.
• Experience developing, documenting, testing, and monitoring internal controls.
• Experience coordinating audit requests, responding to audit findings, and managing remediation plans.
• Strong understanding of financial processes, risk assessment, segregation of duties, and control documentation.
• Ability to analyze complex processes, identify control weaknesses, and recommend practical solutions.
• Strong project management, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across multiple departments and levels of leadership.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and other reporting tools; experience with financial systems and process automation is an advantage.
• Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and travel to hotel locations as needed.

Hospitality industry experience is strongly preferred, particularly experience supporting multiple hotel properties or a geographically dispersed organization.

Work Arrangement

This is a temporary-to-hire opportunity with an anticipated assignment of up to 12 months. Based on business needs, performance, and mutual agreement, the position may transition to regular, full-time employment. Conversion is not guaranteed.

The role is based at our Denver Tech Center office, with travel of less than 40% to support hotel operations, audits, and control initiatives across the U.S. portfolio.

Benefits

At Millennium Hotels & Resorts, we support our employees with a competitive benefits package designed to promote wellbeing and long-term success:

• Paid Time Off & Paid Holidays
• Hotel Room Discounts across our global portfolio
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Benefits eligibility and offerings are subject to plan terms and company policy.