Associate Director, Data Science and Machine Learning, Audit and Assurance

Job description

Connect to your Industry

Our Audit and Assurance practice encompasses skills across regulation and finance with a deep analytics capability. We harness these to provide Assurance to those charged with governance, serving the public interest. Working in Assurance means you will have an opportunity to work alongside leading experts, as we help build and enhance trust between businesses and the public, by responding to emerging issues and protecting the public interest. Providing assurance to help businesses become more resilient, agile and better prepared for the future.

To be resilient, businesses must be ready to respond to current and future challenges and opportunities. They are increasingly being required to be more transparent with their reporting, to drive trust and confidence in the market, and protect the wider public interest.

Assurance builds, maintains and develops confidence. We provide independent assurance by assessing the risks and underlying processes, providing conclusions as to which risks are being managed and mitigated in line with the business’ appetite for risk. Deloitte’s assurance offerings help those charged with governance to understand their business and build trust amongst key stakeholders and regulators.

Analytics and Data Science

High quality and transparent reporting on data use and compliance of data handling is critical for both regulatory compliance and for rebuilding the trust of the public. Our dedicated Analytics Group specialises in helping clients understand and effectively use their data. As a data science team we work seamlessly with the diverse data and analytics specialist teams to create solutions to internal and client projects in a fast-paced environment.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact . These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

Connect to your opportunity

We are looking for an Associate Director to join our new AI Lab. The core purpose of the AI Lab is to support the safe, trustworthy deployment of AI in the UK as organisations transform and realise benefits from these exciting new technologies. This is through two streams:

Firstly, providing market-leading AI assurance for our clients focused on model risk and data risk (“technical AI assurance”); and Secondly, building and deploying AI products to support the transformation of Deloitte’s Audit and Assurance practice.

The role includes:

• Support the building, leading and nurturing a team of 25 AI specialists.
• Building strong relationships and influence with pivotal stakeholders across the UK AI ecosystem; helping steer the development of the approach to AI assurance in the UK.
• Leading market activation for Deloitte’s technical AI assurance proposition and development of the team’s project pipeline.
• Leading the development of Deloitte’s technical AI assurance playbook.
• Collaborating with colleagues to understand business need and then leading the development, deployment and assurance of AI assets to help transform Deloitte’s Audit and Assurance practice;
• Collaborating with like-minded Deloitte colleagues across the UK and globally.

The AI Lab is in its early stages and we are looking for an Associate Director with the energy, vision and enthusiasm to develop the AI Lab into a £10m business over the next five years. The Associate Director will be able to contribute to shaping the vision for the role and their team.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

To qualify for this opportunity, you must have the following skills:

Essential

• Experience of developing and executing business strategy.
• Experience of influencing stakeholders at C-suite and non-executive levels.
• Experience of building and leading technical teams.
• Experience of market activation, business development and winning work in the market.
• Experience of developing AI or ML thought leadership.
• A strong network across the UK’s AI ecosystem.
• End-to-end experience of leading and managing multiple data science and analytics projects in different industries and with different types of data (text, numerical, categorical).
• A strong technical understanding and experience of AI and ML modelling techniques.
• A strong technical understanding of validating AI, GenAI a