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Eaton is hiring a Director, Internal Audit to lead a global Financial and Operational (FinOps) Internal Audit portfolio aligned to assigned businesses, regions, and enterprise processes, primarily in Electrical Sector Americas.

This leader will develop and execute a risk-based assurance and advisory portfolio that evaluates financial reporting, operational, compliance, and enterprise risks; strengthens internal controls; and delivers clear, actionable insights to senior leadership.

As a key member of the Internal Audit leadership team, the Director will build trusted relationships with business and functional leaders, maintain connectivity to strategic priorities and emerging risks, deploy resources flexibly across the global audit plan, and develop a high-performing team with broad enterprise exposure.

Job Responsibilities
• Internal Audit Leadership: Serve as a key member of the Internal Audit leadership team, helping establish the function's strategy, annual priorities, operating rhythm, talent agenda, and continuous improvement roadmap.
• Stakeholder Leadership: Own relationships with senior leaders across assigned businesses, regions, and enterprise processes. Maintain connectivity to business strategy, operating priorities, transformation initiatives, acquisitions, capacity expansion, and emerging risks.
• Risk-Based Audit Portfolio: Develop and execute a global, risk-based portfolio of financial, operational, compliance, and advisory audits informed by enterprise risk assessments, business priorities, regulatory developments, and historical control issues.
• Audit Execution: Direct audit planning, fieldwork, reporting, and follow-up activities to ensure engagements are timely, high quality, business relevant, and consistent with Internal Audit standards and methodologies.
• Executive Insights & Remediation: Translate complex financial, operational, and control findings into clear, actionable insights for senior leadership. Connect individual findings to broader enterprise themes and influence sustainable remediation and process improvement.
• Strategic Advisory: Provide advisory support for significant business initiatives, transformations, acquisitions, and other strategic priorities while maintaining Internal Audit's independence and appropriate assurance coverage.
• Risk & Assurance Coordination: Partner with SOX, Enterprise Risk Management, Ethics and Compliance, Controls Compliance and Advisory, Information Technology Audit, Cybersecurity, Legal, and external audit teams to align risk coverage and minimize gaps or unnecessary duplication.
• Global Resource Management: Deploy audit resources flexibly across teams and geographies based on risk, complexity, business priorities, workload, and employee development objectives.
• People Leadership: Lead, develop, and retain a high-performing global team through goal setting, performance management, coaching, succession planning, timely feedback, and meaningful experiential development opportunities.
• Digital Audit & Analytics: Champion the use of data analytics, artificial intelligence, AuditBoard, and other digital capabilities to strengthen risk identification, audit execution, reporting, and productivity.
• Functional Excellence: Monitor audit execution, remediation plans, resource utilization, and key performance indicators. Represent Internal Audit in governance forums and lead department-wide initiatives that strengthen the effectiveness and impact of the function.

The expected annual salary range for this role is $182000 - $266000 a year. This position is also eligible for a variable incentive program.

Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
• Minimum 10 years of progressive professional experience in public accounting, internal audit, finance, controllership, operations, or related risk and assurance functions.
• Minimum 3 years of people-management experience.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship now or in the future.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), or comparable professional certification.
• Demonstrated experience leading global teams and/or complex, cross-functional initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience leading or supporting large-scale business change, transformation, or complex enterprise initiatives.
• Electrical industry experience.
• Deep knowledge of internal audit methodologies, enterprise risk assessment, financial reporting, operational and compliance auditing, and internal control design and effectiveness.
• Strong accounting and financial acumen, including the ability to interpret financial statements, evaluate financial and operational performance, and connect audit findings to business outcomes.
• Working knowledge of Sarbanes-Oxley requirements and the interdependencies among financial, operational, and technology-enabled controls.
• Broad business acumen and experience operating within complex, global organizations, including manufacturing, acquisitions, supply chain, business transformations, and regulatory environments.
• Experience leading global teams and working effectively across diverse business, cultural, and regulatory environments.
• Experience with data analytics, visualization, artificial intelligence, financial and accounting applications, enterprise resource planning systems, and audit management technology.
• Experience with AuditBoard or comparable audit, governance, risk, and compliance platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships with senior leaders, constructively challenge existing practices, and influence sustainable change.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, resources, and timelines while consistently delivering high-quality results.
• Strong executive communication skills with the ability to translate complex financial, operational, control, and risk information into clear recommendations for senior audiences.
• Demonstrated continuous improvement mindset with experience simplifying processes, improving audit methodologies, and leveraging technology to increase effectiveness.
• Proven success developing talent through coaching, feedback, succession planning, and meaningful development opportunities.
• Demonstrated sound judgment, professional skepticism, and independence when evaluating complex risks and control issues.

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Eaton is an intelligent power management company dedicated to improving the quality of life and protecting the environment for people everywhere.

Size: 10,000+ employees
Industry: Engineering

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