Ai Risk Business Partner - Line 1 Risk

Bankwest

Hybrid (at least half time in the office each month)
Ai risk champion
Commercial judgement
Technical literacy
Bankwest is seeking an AI Risk Business Partner for their Line 1 Risk team to oversee AI initiatives while ensuring regulatory and operational compliance. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in risk management within financial services, strong stakeholder management skills, and a practical understanding of AI concepts

Job Summary

  • Partner with Product, Delivery and Risk leaders to enable Bankwest to innovate safely at pace using AI.
  • This role is the Line 1 AI risk champion combining strong commercial judgement, technical literacy and courageous challenge to ensure AI initiatives create sustainable customer and shareholder value without exposing the bank to unacceptable regulatory, operational or reputational risk.
  • Drive a step-change in AI risk capability across Line 1 by embedding repeatable patterns, practical guardrails and scalable monitoring approaches that allow innovation to occur safely and sustainably.

Matching Summary

Match Score: 85

Bankwest is seeking an AI Risk Business Partner for their Line 1 Risk team to oversee AI initiatives while ensuring regulatory and operational compliance. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in risk management within financial services, strong stakeholder management skills, and a practical understanding of AI concepts.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • AI risk champion
  • commercial judgement
  • technical literacy
  • courageous challenge
  • AI/ML concepts
  • generative AI risks
  • stakeholder management
  • incident management

Nice-to-have

  • innovate safely at pace
  • sustainable customer value
  • reputational risk
  • pragmatic guidance
  • digital literacy

Key Requirements

  • Extensive experience in financial services risk
  • operational risk or model risk management
  • demonstrable ownership of model governance
  • model lifecycle activities
  • Practical understanding of AI/ML concepts
  • model testing and validation
  • modern generative AI (LLMs) risks and controls
  • Strong stakeholder management
  • Excellent written and verbal communication
  • Strong analytical mindset
  • Experience with incident management
  • post-incident reviews and driving remediation
  • Demonstrated commercial acumen
  • Experience operating in environments undergoing technological or regulatory change
  • Strong digital literacy

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