VP-AI Audit

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 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.