[Hiring] Senior Consultant @Accenture

Role Description

The Senior Consultant is responsible for delivering AI governance, risk, and control design services to customers. The Senior Consultant supports organisations adopting Generative AI and ML by translating technical architectures into practical, enforceable risk and control models. The Senior Consultant will work directly with client security, risk, engineering, and data teams to assess AI systems end to end—ensuring controls span models, infrastructure, data, inference, and generative outputs, not just policies and process.

Key Roles & Responsibilities

• Deliver Secure AI strategy and risk consulting projects
• Lead/support complex projects where scope may be unclear, educate clients on AI use cases and ensure well defined business case ROI is documented
• Conduct high level business analysis workshops and deep dives to identify security risks and concerns
• 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, and GenAIOps pipelines
• Translate AI architectures into actionable risk, control, 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, templates, and documentation
• Actively collaborate across CyberCX and continuously look for ways to add value. Facilitate communication, partnerships and cross-pollination across the business to allow teams to better engage and service customers

Qualifications

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

Benefits

• 18 weeks paid parental leave
• Long & short-term career break opportunities
• Structured career development program
• Local and international career opportunities
• Certified as a Family Inclusive Workplace™
• Flexible Work Arrangements - centered around Accenture’s Truly Human ethos and our commitment to supporting the health and wellbeing of our people
• We are proud to be in the top 3 of last year’s Diversity & Inclusion Index!