VP-AI Audit

Mashreq; India; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Mashreq is seeking a senior leader to head the development and execution of the Bank's AI and GenAI audit strategy, assessing governance, model risk, data integrity, ethics, and regulatory compliance across AI-enabled initiatives.

You will lead audits across the AI/ML lifecycle, evaluate third-party AI risks, prepare reports to the Board Audit Committee, and mentor the AI audit team to foster learning and innovation.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10–12 years in IT audit, technology risk, model risk, or AI/data governance.
• At least 3–4 years directly focused on AI/ML or GenAI risk, governance, or audit, preferably in banking.
• CISA mandatory (or to be obtained within 12 months).
• Strong understanding of AI/ML concepts and risk frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and execution of the Bank's AI and GenAI audit strategy across governance, control effectiveness, ethics, data integrity, model risk and regulatory compliance.
• Execute audits over the AI/ML lifecycle — data sourcing, training, validation, deployment, monitoring, retraining, and decommissioning (MLOps/LLMOps).
• Provide assurance on AI governance, model risk management, ethics, fairness, bias, explainability, and human-in-the-loop controls.
• Audit GenAI/LLM use cases — RAG pipelines, fine-tuning, prompt engineering, guardrails, vector databases, and output validation.
• Prepare and present impactful audit reports to the Board Audit Committee, GCEO, and senior management; translate complex AI concepts into business language.

Skills

AI/ML concepts

GenAI/LLMs

AI governance & risk frameworks

Data analytics

Leadership & teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS / IT / Data Science

Master's in AI/ML or Data Science preferred

Tools

AI audit tools

Audit analytics tools

Job description

Lead the development and execution of the Bank's AI and GenAI audit strategy to assess governance, control effectiveness, ethical use, data integrity, model risk, and regulatory compliance across all AI-enabled initiatives, and to enable responsible AI adoption across the Bank.

Key Result Areas

• Develop and implement risk-based AI/GenAI audit strategies aligned with the Bank's AI agenda and regulatory expectations.
• Execute audits over the AI/ML lifecycle — data sourcing, training, validation, deployment, monitoring, retraining, and decommissioning (MLOps/LLMOps).
• Provide assurance on AI governance, model risk management (MRM), ethics, fairness, bias, explainability, and human-in-the-loop controls.
• Audit GenAI/LLM use cases — RAG pipelines, fine-tuning, prompt engineering, guardrails, vector databases, and output validation.
• Assess AI cybersecurity risks — adversarial attacks, prompt injection, data poisoning, model theft, jailbreaks (OWASP LLM Top 10, MITRE ATLAS).
• Evaluate third-party AI risks covering foundation model providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Mistral, open-source) and cloud AI platforms (Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI).
• Assess compliance with AI and data regulations — CBUAE, QCB, SBP, RBI,UAE PDPL etc.
• Audit AI use in credit, AML/fraud, KYC, chatbots, personalization, trading, and operations automation.
• Prepare and present impactful audit reports to the Board Audit Committee, GCEO, and senior management, translating complex AI concepts into business language.
• Partner in Internal Audit AI transformation — continuous auditing, GenAI-enabled audit tools, and audit team upskilling.
• Guide, coach, and develop AI audit team members; foster a culture of learning, agility, and innovation.
• Support integrated audits by providing AI/technology subject-matter expertise across the Bank.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Data Science, AI, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field; Master's in AI/ML or Data Science preferred.

Experience

• Minimum 10–12 years in IT audit, technology risk, model risk, or AI/data governance, with at least 3–4 years directly focused on AI/ML or GenAI risk, governance, or audit, preferably in banking.

Certifications

• CISA mandatory (or to be obtained within 12 months).
• One or more preferred: ISACA AAIA (Advanced in AI Audit), CISSP, CRISC, CGEIT, CDPSE.

Technical Knowledge

• Strong understanding of AI/ML concepts — supervised, unsupervised, reinforcement, deep learning, NLP, computer vision.
• GenAI and LLMs — foundation models, transformers, embeddings, RAG, fine-tuning (SFT, RLHF, LoRA), prompt engineering, agentic and multi-modal AI.
• Familiarity with major model versions and providers — OpenAI (GPT-4/4o/5), Anthropic (Claude), Google (Gemini), Meta (Llama), Mistral, and leading open-source models.
• AI governance and risk frameworks

Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills focused on novel AI risks.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to convey complex AI concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including the Board.
• Ability to work independently, lead a team, and collaborate across departments and geographies.

Added Advantages

• Hands‑on involvement in any part of an organization's AI initiatives (use case build, model validation, AI governance council, MLOps, GenAI product).
• Banking / financial services domain knowledge (credit, fraud/AML, digital channels, compliance).
• Experience with AI-enabled internal audit tools and audit analytics.