Director, Internal Audit

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Job description

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.

All positions may require participation in video and in-person interviews as part of the hiring process. All candidates will be evaluated based on job-related competencies, and all candidates' privacy rights and data security will be protected in accordance with applicable laws.

We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.

Eaton believes in second chance employment. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction history will be considered regardless of their arrest or conviction history, consistent with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the California Fair Chance Act and other local laws.

You do not need to disclose your conviction history or participate in a background check until a conditional job offer is made to you. After making a conditional offer and running a background check, if Eaton is concerned about conviction that is directly related to the job, you will be given the chance to explain the circumstances surrounding the conviction, provide mitigating evidence, or challenge the accuracy of the background report.

To request a disability-related reasonable accommodation to assist you in your job search, application, or interview process, please call us at 1-800-836-6345 to discuss your specific need. Only accommodation requests will be accepted by this phone number.

We know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview. Please note that specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

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The city

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How Raleigh compares. Among the 100 largest places in North Carolina, Raleigh is #2 by population, #20 for remote work (#1 = most), #22 for college degrees (#1 = most), #75 for rent (#1 = cheapest). Its county, Wake County, is #4 of 100 counties for average pay ($76,807).

The place in numbers

Raleigh has 481,031 residents (ACS 2020–2024), about 4.5% of the population of North Carolina. It covers 151 square miles of land, which works out to roughly 3,187 people per square mile. The median age is 34.7, 11% younger than the state median (34.7 against 39.1).

Housing

The median gross rent is $1,572 a month (rent plus utilities), 28% above the state median ($1,572 against $1,228). Over a year that is 22.1% of the median household income. US housing guidance treats housing as affordable when it takes 30% of income or less, so the typical household is under that line. The median home value is $415,800, which is 4.9 times the median household income ($85,395). 50.8% of households own their home, 24% below the state average (50.8% against 66.6%). A low ownership share points to a rental-heavy market with more apartments and shorter stays.

Work and pay

The Raleigh-Cary, NC metropolitan area has 743,120 jobs in the BLS wage survey, and the median pay across all occupations is $51,990 a year, about the same as the national median ($51,990 against $50,980). The biggest occupation groups are office and administrative support (79,180 jobs, median $47,310); sales and related (74,800 jobs, median $42,450); food preparation and serving related (66,380 jobs, median $30,480). The area is most specialised in computer and mathematical (1.7 times) and life, physical, and social science (1.5 times), where the share of workers is well above the national share. The best-paying groups with at least 5,000 jobs are management ($132,650) and computer and mathematical ($107,760). In 2026M09 the unemployment rate of Wake County was 2.8%. 70.8% of residents aged 16 and over are in the labour force. The city lies in Wake County; its jobs, pay by industry and GDP are on the county page.

Getting around

Among workers, 62.3% drive alone, 1.4% use public transit, 1.6% walk, 25.8% work from home. 9.0% of workers commute 45 minutes or more, 35% below the state average (9.0% against 13.9%). Remote work is more common than in the state as a whole, which widens the set of employers a resident can work for without moving.

People and education

54.0% of adults aged 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 51% above the state share (54.0% against 35.6%). 13.8% of residents were born outside the United States, 52% above the state share (13.8% against 9.1%). The poverty rate is 11.9%, 9% below the state rate (11.9% against 13.0%).

Climate

The warmest month is Jul, averaging 80°F (26.7°C), and the coolest is Jan at 38°F (3.4°C). About 1,187 mm (47 inches) of precipitation falls in a year; Aug is the wettest month (127 mm) and Jan the driest (72 mm). These values come from NASA satellite-based climatology on a grid of about 50 km, so they describe the wider area, not a weather station in the city.

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Raleigh, NC.

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Median rent in Raleigh is $1,572 a month and median household income $85,395 (ACS 2020–2024).

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• City and county figures: Census Bureau ACS 2020–2024, BEA, BLS QCEW and LAUS, NASA POWER climatology; distances from Census Gazetteer coordinates.

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