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I am an internal auditor. For more than eight years I have planned and run risk based audits, tested controls under SOX and ICFR, written the reports, and presented the findings to Audit Committees. The work has taken me through FMCG, retail, manufacturing, hospitality, aquaculture, medical and fintech businesses.

Lately most of my attention goes to AI: how organisations should govern it, and how auditors should test it. I hold ISACA's Advanced in AI Audit, and I am a Global AI Delegate at the Global Alliance for Artificial Intelligence, where I speak on AI regulation and responsible AI.

Outside the day job I build Cashilor, a platform for learning to trade with honest numbers. It is the same instinct as audit: write it down before the result is known, and show the losses next to the wins.

Ravishankar Agrawal

Experience

  1. Mar 2026 to now

    Global AI Delegate

    Global Alliance for Artificial Intelligence (GAFAI)

    Member of the Policy, Regulation and International Cooperation Council. Speaker in the GAFAI Insights and Council webinar series.

  2. Apr 2025 to now

    Senior Internal Auditor (Assistant Manager)

    In-house internal audit

    • Risk based internal audits across operations, procurement, revenue and billing, inventory and policy compliance.
    • Data led testing on SAP extracts to find control gaps, leakage and unusual patterns.
    • Gap assessments of operating policies and SOPs, with findings reported to management.
  3. Apr 2023 to Feb 2025

    Senior Consultant

    Protiviti

    • Led report preparation and client relationships on internal audit engagements.
    • Executed audits to internal auditing standards across several industries.
  4. Aug 2021 to Sep 2022

    Consultant

    EY, Mumbai

    • Supervised audit planning, reporting and client presentations.
    • Designed and finalised audit scopes with CFOs, and took part in Audit Committee meetings.
    • Reported findings with practical recommendations for process improvement and cost reduction.
  5. Feb 2021 to Aug 2021

    Consultant

    Experis

    • Wrote audit reports that set out key issues and practical fixes.
    • Tracked daily engagement work against the audit methodology and risk protocols.
  6. Dec 2018 to Jan 2020

    Associate

    Aneja Associates, Mumbai

    • Financial and operational audits, and the annual SOP review for clients.

Credentials

  • Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)

    ISACA, 2025

  • Advanced in AI Audit (AAIA)

    ISACA, 2026

    Verify
  • Certified in Cybersecurity (CC)

    ISC2, 2024. Credential ID 2194722

  • Certified Cryptocurrency Auditor

    Blockchain Council, 2025

    Verify
  • Certified Internal Auditor (CIA)

    IIA, In progress. Part 1 passed

Courses and other certificates

  • Leadership with AI, Indian School of Business, 2025 Checked against source verify
  • Power BI Data Analyst (PL-300), Microsoft, 2025
  • GRC Professional (GRCP), OCEG, 2025
  • GRC Audit, GRC Certify, 2025
  • Building an AI-Driven Audit, LinkedIn Learning, 2026
  • Mastering Responsible AI: From Concept to Auditing, LinkedIn Learning, 2026

Education

  • B.Com (Hons), Indira Gandhi National Open University, 2016

What I work with

Audit and controls
Risk based audit planning, SOX 302 and 404, ICFR design and testing, IFC reviews, COSO and IIA standards, SOP writing and review, Audit Committee reporting
Data and systems
SAP (MM, FICO, SD, CO, PP), Oracle ERP, Power BI, Excel modelling, Data analytics for audit
AI and technology risk
AI governance and audit, Responsible AI, IT general controls, Cybersecurity basics, Crypto and blockchain audit
Markets
Technical analysis, Risk and position sizing, Rule based trading systems, Crypto market structure
Industries
FMCG, Retail, Manufacturing, Hospitality and catering, Aquaculture, Medical, Fintech
Languages
English (fluent), Hindi and Marwari (native)

Talks and panels

  • 11 Sep 2026

    Comparing AI regulatory frameworks: EU, US, China and beyond

    GAFAI Council Webinar Series

    Panel speaker on where the EU AI Act, the US approach and China's model agree and differ.

  • 12 Sep 2025

    GAFAI Insights #6: AI Governance

    Global Alliance for Artificial Intelligence

    Practical guardrails for building and running AI responsibly.

  • 15 Aug 2025

    Prototyping Ethics

    GAFAI Insights, inaugural webinar

    Building ethics, bias checks and AML controls into AI and fintech prototypes from day one.