Senior Secure AI Governance & Risk Consultant

Accenture Global; Sydney; On-site; AUD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

18 weeks paid parental leave

Flexible Work Arrangements

Structured career development program

Local and international career opps

Diversity & Inclusion Index member

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Senior Consultant to deliver AI governance, risk, and control design services for clients adopting Generative AI and ML. You will translate architectures into practical risk models and work with client security, risk, engineering, and data teams to ensure models, infrastructure, data, and outputs are securely governed.

You will lead AI risk assessments, define controls across AI pipelines, and help operationalise governance frameworks to meet regulatory expectations.

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 beyond process controls
• Ability to communicate complex risk across models, data, and infrastructure to customers
• Strong written and verbal communication, including visualising outputs in visuals and diagrams

Responsibilities

• Deliver Secure AI strategy and risk consulting projects
• Lead or support complex projects with unclear scope and document 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 pipelines
• Assess controls covering data ingestion, training, inference and outputs
• Evaluate security and risk across AI infrastructure, MLOps and GenAIOps pipelines
• Translate AI architectures into actionable risk and assurance artefacts
• Align technical 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 and engage clients

Skills

AI/ML risk assessment

Communication (written)

Risk governance

Security controls mapping

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

Visio

PowerPoint

Word

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Senior Consultant to deliver AI governance, risk, and control design services for clients adopting Generative AI and ML. You will translate architectures into practical risk models and work with client security, risk, engineering, and data teams to ensure models, infrastructure, data, and outputs are securely governed.

You will lead AI risk assessments, define controls across AI pipelines, and help operationalise governance frameworks to meet regulatory expectations.