VP-AI Audit

Mashreq; Kollam; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Mashreq seeks a leader to drive the AI and GenAI audit strategy across governance, model risk, ethics, and data integrity. You will assess AI initiatives end-to-end, ensuring regulatory alignment and responsible AI adoption.

The role requires applying risk-based audit methods across the AI/ML lifecycle, communicating complex findings to the Board, and guiding a skilled AI audit team for continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Data Science, AI, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.
• CISA mandatory (or to be obtained within 12 months).
• One or more preferred: ISACA AAIA (Advanced in AI Audit), CISSP, CRISC, CGEIT, CDPSE.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Prepare and present impactful audit reports to the Board Audit Committee, GCEO, and senior management, translating complex AI concepts into business language.
• Guide, coach, and develop AI audit team members; foster a culture of learning, agility, and innovation.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Data Science, AI, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field

Job description

Job Purpose

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 1012 years in IT audit, technology risk, model risk, or AI/data governance, with at least 34 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 platforms/tooling Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock/SageMaker, Google Vertex AI, Databricks, Hugging Face, LangChain, vector databases.

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.