Senior Secure AI Governance & Risk Consultant

Accenture Global; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

18 weeks paid parental leave

Career development program

Flexible Work Arrangements

Diversity & Inclusion initiatives

Global opportunities

Job summary

Accenture Global in Melbourne is seeking a Senior Consultant to deliver AI governance, risk and control design services. You will translate AI architectures into practical risk models and work with client security, risk, engineering and data teams to establish end-to-end controls.

The role focuses on GenAI and ML across models, data, inference, and outputs, shaping governance frameworks, and contributing to scalable risk templates. Flexible work arrangements are available in Australia.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in technology risk, cyber security, or technical consulting delivering client-facing engagements.
• Strong understanding of AI/ML and Generative AI architectures.
• Experience mapping technical security controls, not just process controls.
• Ability to communicate complex risk across models, data, and infrastructure clearly.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including visualising outputs (Visio/PowerPoint/Word).

Responsibilities

• Deliver Secure AI strategy and risk consulting projects.
• Lead and educate clients on AI use cases with well-defined ROI.
• Conduct high level business analysis workshops to identify security risks.
• Conduct AI and model risk assessments across GenAI and ML workloads.
• Map technical controls across AI models, platforms, and deployment pipelines.
• Assess and define controls covering data ingestion, training, inference, and outputs.
• Evaluate security and risk across AI infrastructure, MLOps, GenAIOps pipelines.
• Translate AI architectures into actionable risk and assurance artefacts.
• Align controls to security, risk, and regulatory frameworks.
• Support clients in operationalising AI governance and control models.
• Contribute to repeatable Secure AI risk frameworks and templates.
• Collaborate across CyberCX and Accenture to add value.

Skills

Tech risk / cyber security

AI/ML & GenAI architectures

Security controls mapping

Communication skills

Documentation visuals

Job description

Accenture Global in Melbourne is seeking a Senior Consultant to deliver AI governance, risk and control design services. You will translate AI architectures into practical risk models and work with client security, risk, engineering and data teams to establish end-to-end controls.

The role focuses on GenAI and ML across models, data, inference, and outputs, shaping governance frameworks, and contributing to scalable risk templates. Flexible work arrangements are available in Australia.