Senior IT Auditor

Job Description

• Assist in planning, organizing, and executing the daily activities of global IT internal audits and advisory projects to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of internal controls, IT project implementations, business processes, and related policies.
• Serve as audit advisor supporting Eaton’s major enterprise resource platform (ERP) system implementations (e.g., SAP, Oracle), cybersecurity program, emerging contemporary technologies (DevOps, AI, Cloud, etc.) to ensure internal controls and security are incorporated by design and continually monitored throughout deployments. 
•  Lead with a digital mindset in supporting Eaton’s digitalization strategy to automate controls testing and monitoring, where applicable. 
• Assist the Global IT Audit & SOX management team in overseeing IT audit processes, enforcing audit documentation quality standards, and providing IT audit support to global audit regions.   "    
• Supports the performance of IT internal audits with a focus on Eaton’s major ERP and enterprise systems and cybersecurity domains. Delivers measurable added value and improves the operations through an independent, objective, systematic and disciplined risk-based approach, evaluating and reporting on the effectiveness of internal controls, risk frameworks and governance processes. 
•  Participates in planning, execution and reporting of assigned SOX validations, including training to IT control owners, control narrative refreshes, execution of interim/roll-forward testing, first-look reviews for new acquisitions, and close coordination with our external auditor.
• Advises on major system implementations, ensuring security and internal controls are built in by design and verified before go-live. Works closely with project stakeholders such as business senior managers, GRC teams, business compliance managers, finance global process leaders, and external auditors through all phases of the project to ensure control requirements are explicitly addressed and delivered.

• Supports and assists the Global IT Audit & SOX management team in risk assessment and strategic planning. This includes expansion into emerging areas such as cybersecurity and cloud-computing governance.
• Leads with a digital mindset to identify and implement new methods to automate internal controls testing and drive overall efficiencies in Audit & SOX processes.
• Embraces adoption of work paper quality standards and review processes to ensure continued reliance by Eaton’s external auditor (including usage of AuditBoard for coordination).
• Serves in controls advisory role on compliance-related projects to advance Eaton’s internal controls capabilities (e.g., CMMC, IAM, OT deployments).
• Assists with designing and deploying audit procedures and techniques for technical / IT areas such as segregation of duties and critical access, ERP configuration controls, and other related areas. 
• Produces clear, concise, and accurate workpapers promptly. Responsible for drafting audit issues and recommendation summary reports for assigned audit areas. Follows-up and reviews implemented management action plans and audit findings remediation. 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor/Master degree from an accredited institution
• Minimum of 2 years of internal controls / public accounting / audit / security / compliance experience.  CISA, CISSP, CPA or related certification preferrable. 
• Public Accounting and Auditing experience also preferrable.

Skills:

• Proven experience working with Internal Audit key concepts (Sarbanes-Oxley, COSO, and/or evaluations of systems of internal control and/or compliance).
• Proven experience in IT general control processes understanding, identifying risks and weaknesses, developing and executing audit procedures to assess the design and operating effectiveness of internal controls to mitigate the risks.
• Strong process management and organizational skills. Ability to deliver high quality results and meet tight deadlines.
• Proven experience in documenting and testing IT general controls.
• Ability and desire to work in a dynamic, multicultural, multilingual and international environment, with colleagues located in other parts of the world.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly and succinctly report key issues, business impact, and recommendations for improvement to management.
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to promote ideas and to work effectively with all levels within the organization.
• Strong MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint and general end-user computer skills.