Internal Audit Manager

About the Role

Hyatt Hotels Corporation seeks an Audit Manager to join our Internal Audit department. You’ll work within a collaborative team of 40 Internal Auditors, valued as consultants to internal clients, partnering with them in the auditing process and advising on efficiencies. This role involves close collaboration with key finance and business stakeholders across the organization to help make Hyatt a leading hospitality company.

The Enterprise Audit Manager leads enterprise-wide internal audits and helps modernize the Internal Audit function through analytics, automation, and AI-enabled auditing. The role partners with stakeholders to identify emerging risks, evaluate processes and controls, and deliver practical recommendations that improve operations and strengthen governance.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the identification and assessment of enterprise, technology, and emerging risks, and provide input into the development of the annual risk-based audit plan.
• Manage enterprise internal audits end-to-end (planning, scoping, execution, and reporting), ensuring audit objectives address key business risks, stakeholder concerns, and organizational priorities.
• Act as day-to-day audit lead by coordinating activities, tracking progress and quality, escalating issues, and keeping senior Internal Audit leadership informed.
• Perform and supervise audit procedures, including process walkthroughs, risk and control assessments, evidence review and analysis, issue development, workpaper documentation, and validation of management remediation actions.
• Develop clear, concise, and well-structured audit reports and executive-level presentations that communicate risk implications, control gaps, root causes, and practical remediation expectations.
• Partner with Data & Analytics, IT, and business stakeholders to identify and obtain relevant data, evaluate data quality, and operationalize analytics within audit programs.
• Translate audit objectives and testing requirements into practical analytics use cases and repeatable testing approaches, considering data quality, output validation, documentation, information security, privacy, and responsible AI practices.
• Support the integration and enhancement of analytics, automation, and technology-enabled solutions within the Hotel and SOX Audit Programs.
• Serve as a thought leader in evaluating, piloting, and adopting emerging AI and analytics capabilities that enhance audit quality, efficiency, and insight while maintaining governance, data privacy, and professional standards.
• Coach and develop audit team members in audit methodology, professional judgment, stakeholder communication, data analytics, AI-assisted audit techniques, and documentation.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with business and functional stakeholders while preserving Internal Audit’s independence, objectivity, and professional skepticism.
• Travel up to 25%, subject to business conditions and requirements.

Qualifications

Experience Required:

• Minimum of 5 years of progressive experience in internal audit, external audit, enterprise risk, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, business process analysis, or a related field, including experience leading or managing audits or complex projects.
• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Accounting, Auditing, Finance, Information Systems, Data Analytics, Business, Hospitality, or a related field.

Experience Preferred:

• Certification as a CPA, CIA, CISA, or Chartered Accountant.
• Experience with public accounting firms or consulting firms.
• Strong project management, critical thinking, professional judgment, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and coach team members.
• Experience with data analytics, automation, or AI-enabled tools and the ability to translate audit and business questions into data requirements and testing approaches.
• Experience with analytics and visualization tools such as Alteryx, Tableau, Power BI, ThoughtSpot, SQL, Python, or similar technologies.
• Experience applying generative AI, analytics, continuous auditing, or automated testing in audit, risk, compliance, or control environments, including awareness of responsible AI, data privacy, and output validation considerations.
• Spanish language skills.

Benefits

• Annual allotment of free hotel stays at Hyatt hotels globally.
• Flexible work schedule.
• Work-life benefits including wellbeing initiatives such as a complimentary Headspace subscription and a discount at the on-site fitness center.
• A global family assistance policy with paid time off following the birth or adoption of a child as well as financial assistance for adoption.
• Paid Time Off, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K with company match.

Pay

The salary range for this position is $98,000–$138,000. This position is also eligible to earn incentive awards, an annual bonus, monthly or quarterly incentives, etc.