Senior IGA Consultant, Identity Governance and Access Controls

<p>Intelance is building a trusted associate team for identity governance and access control work in regulated and complex organisations.</p> <p>We are looking for a Senior IGA Consultant to turn access evidence into clear findings, practical access rules and delivery ready actions. The first likely assignment supports a financial services client reviewing who can see and change sensitive client information across Microsoft, data and business platforms.</p> <p>This is an associate contract. Work is assigned through paid work orders after client approval. The first assignment is expected to be a focused number of delivery days, with the possibility of later pilot, access review and recurring governance work.</p> <h2>Tasks</h2> <p>Working with the Engagement Director and Principal IAM Consultant, you will:</p> <p>• Analyse user, group, role, permission and service account exports.</p> <p>• Reconcile technical access with the business reason for access.</p> <p>• Identify broad, stale, direct and conflicting access, and record the evidence for each point.</p> <p>• Carry out role mining and draft role and access matrices.</p> <p>• Test joiner, role change and leaver controls, including where old access is removed.</p> <p>• Draft clear findings that state the system, affected access, evidence, risk and required decision.</p> <p>• Support access reviews and certification so business owners can make informed decisions.</p> <p>• Review privileged accounts, service accounts and integration identities.</p> <p>• Support access testing for Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, Microsoft 365, SharePoint and connected business systems.</p> <p>• Maintain the findings register, evidence record and implementation backlog.</p> <p>• Support pilot testing and confirm that completed changes match the approved design.</p> <p>You will not be expected to act as the overall design authority. The Principal IAM Consultant owns the target access design and final technical challenge.</p> <h2>Requirements</h2> <p><strong>Essential:</strong></p> <p><strong>• Strong recent experience delivering identity governance or access control work in a complex organisation.</strong></p> <p><strong>• Hands on experience analysing users, groups, roles, permissions and access grants.</strong></p> <p><strong>• Practical role mining and role based access control experience.</strong></p> <p><strong>• Experience designing or operating access reviews, certification and recertification.</strong></p> <p><strong>• Experience testing joiner, role change and leaver controls.</strong></p> <p><strong>• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID and Active Directory.</strong></p> <p><strong>• Working knowledge of Microsoft 365 and SharePoint permissions.</strong></p> <p><strong>• Experience reviewing privileged accounts, service accounts or integration access.</strong></p> <p><strong>• Able to write short, evidence based findings in plain English.</strong></p> <p><strong>• Comfortable working independently from source records and recorded interviews.</strong></p> <p><strong>• Based in the United Kingdom and available during UK business hours.</strong></p> <p><strong>• Available for short, clearly scoped assignments that may grow after client approval.</strong></p> <p><strong>Strong advantage:</strong></p> <p><strong>• Experience in financial services, investment management or another regulated business.</strong></p> <p><strong>• Experience with Snowflake or another cloud data platform.</strong></p> <p><strong>• Experience with SailPoint, Saviynt or another identity governance platform.</strong></p> <p><strong>• Experience of segregation of duties analysis.</strong></p> <p><strong>• Experience reviewing AI tools or connectors that can reach company information.</strong></p> <p><strong>• Relevant Microsoft identity, SailPoint, Saviynt, CISSP, CISM or ISO 27001 certification.</strong></p> <p><strong>Please apply only if you have personally analysed access evidence and turned it into findings or role design. General project coordination or user administration alone is not enough.</strong></p> <h2>Benefits</h2> <ul> <li>• Indicative rate of £425 to £500 per day, depending on the assignment and depth of relevant experience.</li> <li>• Fully remote work within the United Kingdom.</li> <li>• Clear work orders, agreed days and defined outputs before each assignment starts.</li> <li>• Direct access to the Engagement Director and Principal IAM Consultant.</li> <li>• Focused work on real access problems in regulated organisations.</li> <li>• Potential follow on work across design, pilot delivery, access reviews and recurring governance.</li> <li>• Prompt payment against agreed timesheets and completed work.</li> </ul> <p>Please submit your CV and answer the application questions fully.</p> <p>We will first check whether your recent work matches the evidence analysis and role design needed. Suitable candidates will then have a short screening call and a structured technical discussion based on a real access scenario.</p> <p>This is an associate opportunity. No minimum number of days is guaranteed. Each assignment is subject to client approval, an agreed work order and confirmed delivery dates.</p> <p>Find more <a href="https://www.arbeitnow.co.uk/english-speaking-jobs">English Speaking Jobs in United Kingdom</a> on Arbeitnow</a>