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Lexi Saunders

Chicago,IL

Summary

Senior Consultant with experience leading cross-functional initiatives in AI governance, risk management, and regulatory compliance for large financial institutions. Proven ability to manage complex workstreams and deliverables, communicate with senior stakeholders, and execute effectively in fast-paced environments.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Consultant - Financial Services

Ernst & Young
Chicago, Illinois
01.2024 - Current

Progressively increased leadership across client engagements, resulting in promotion to Senior Consultant.

  • Led the design and operationalization of enterprise AI risk governance frameworks, delivering 6+ governance artifacts aligned to NIST, and emerging regulatory requirements.
  • Contributed to firmwide digital assets and emerging technology initiatives, developing industry perspectives and executive-ready materials on digital assets risk governance to support client strategy discussions, and go-to-market efforts.
  • Facilitated 20+ cross-functional workshops with Legal, Compliance, Risk, Technology, and business stakeholders to assess governance maturity and drive organizational alignment.
  • Owned and delivered multiple client-facing deliverables, managing priorities and timelines across concurrent engagements while serving as a primary day-to-day client contact.
  • Designed target operating models and executive-level risk reporting across 5 enterprise risk dimensions, improving leadership visibility and decision-making.
  • Integrated AI and data risk considerations into privacy and compliance assessment workflows, piloting enhancements, and delivering recommendations adopted by enterprise teams.
  • Supported incident response and resilience initiatives, reviewing current-state capabilities, and developing tailored response plans aligned to enterprise frameworks and industry best practices.

Enterprise Risk Consulting Intern

Ernst & Young
Chicago, IL
06.2022 - 08.2022
  • Supported enterprise risk and internal audit engagements by assessing control design and operational effectiveness and contributing to implementation and remediation roadmaps.

Asset Management Intern

Casto
Columbus, OH
05.2021 - 06.2021
  • Supported asset management and portfolio analysis across 15+ commercial and residential real estate projects, developing Excel-based tracking tools to support asset performance analysis.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Business Administration

The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio, OH
05-2023

Skills

Business & Strategy: Project management, stakeholder engagement, operating model design, process improvement


Risk & Compliance: AI governance, regulatory analysis, privacy assessments, incident response, AML


Tools: Excel, PowerPoint, risk assessment frameworks, process mapping

Timeline

Senior Consultant - Financial Services

Ernst & Young
01.2024 - Current

Enterprise Risk Consulting Intern

Ernst & Young
06.2022 - 08.2022

Asset Management Intern

Casto
05.2021 - 06.2021

Bachelor of Science - Business Administration

The Ohio State University
Lexi Saunders