Must Have Skills:

• Data & AI regulations, compliance, and standards knowledge
• Responsible AI
• Generative AI risk, controls, and mitigations
• Senior Stakeholder Management
• Risk assessment
• Project management office
• Consulting skills designing/implementing operating models, governance structures and controls

Experience (Proven Experience):

• Minimum of 1+ years’ experience in corporate governance and risk management, procurement and global vendor management, government/legislative development bodies, regulators, standards bodies

Strong stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills across diverse global teams

Educational Qualification:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

You May Also Need:

• Prior experience or profile in the field of Responsible / Ethical AI, or closely related areas (advantageous)
• Legal experience / academic background

Job Summary:
The Vendor Scoring Analyst will be within the Quality Management and Controls function, specifically on vendor assessment. This is a remote role in a global team. The team has been given a unique mandate to ensure Accenture acts as responsibly when we buy AI as we do when we build it. This ongoing capability has had to be built from scratch, and is a market first – providing AI assessment and assurance across 40k vendors globally. This role will report into Delivery leadership in the team responsible for executing assessment on our global vendor pool, establishing false negative testing, routine reporting and deploying innovative use of tools to ensure our team delivers on objectives. Working in a truly global team and with stakeholders across Accenture’s business you will gain experience in building and designing new capabilities with no blueprint, and experience a team culture of mutual support, success, embracing diversity in skills and thinking.

In Your Role You Will Be Expected To:

The work:

• Work with the Governance and Monitoring Lead to set the parameters for manual testing of scoring
• Support the identification of in-scope vendors for manual assessment
• Conduct desktop research into vendor scoring to lead recommendations as to suitability and identify cases where there is a genuine rationale for change
• Prepare business justification for changes to vendor scoring and lead the presentation of these to stakeholders, to drive sign-off
• Support wider strategy relating to re-assessment cycle
• Support the design and setup of negative news scanning
• Support the design of an ongoing, market leading Monitoring capability

Preferred candidates will demonstrate some background in consulting or relevant industries, with especially desirable skillsets including:

• Experience in government/legislative development bodies, regulators, standards bodies, in designing and implementing operating models, risk management controls, governance structures and controls in any of these areas, or multilateral collaborative groups
• Experience in corporate governance and risk management
• Experience with procurement and global vendor management
• Experience in more regulated industries such as FS or H&PS
• As a member of a corporate team focused on Responsible AI
• As an academic focused not just on the theory but also on the practical application of Responsible AI
• Experience developing comms for senior stakeholders

Essential to have some experience of work including the following skillsets:

• Desktop research
• Business analysis
• AI tooling awareness
• AI risks and RAI awareness
• Experience/knowledge of relevant legislation and standards such as EUAIA, NIST, ISO

Additional Information:
This role sits within Accenture’s Global Responsible AI team, part of the Global Data & AI Practice. It involves opportunities to work on high impact, pioneering projects at the intersection of technology, ethics, and governance. Travel may be required, varying between 0–100% based on business needs and client engagements.

What We Are Looking For:
A strategic thinker with a passion for Responsible AI and ethical innovation. The ideal candidate combines regulatory awareness with consulting expertise, thrives in fast-paced, global environments, and can influence both clients and internal teams to drive responsible technology transformation.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com 

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