Senior IAM Governance Analyst

Overview

As a Senior IAM Governance Analyst, you will lead and coordinate user access review campaigns, ensuring controls operate effectively across applications and data. You’ll work within the UAR team to manage reviewers, evidence, and remediation while collaborating with Entra engineering to enhance governance capabilities. This hands-on role requires turning policy into repeatable processes and managing high-volume governance activity with integrity. You’ll engage with security, risk, and business stakeholders to drive data-quality improvements and audit-ready outcomes.

Pay / Benefits

• Contributory Pension Scheme
• 25 Days Holiday + UK Public Holidays
• Perkbox discounts
• Life assurance and death in service cover
• Volunteer days
• Cycle-to-work scheme

Responsibilities

• Plan and run recurring and ad hoc user access review campaigns across applications, groups, roles, and entitlements
• Define scope, populations, reviewers, decision criteria, timescales and escalation routes with owners
• Support reviewers to make timely, evidence-based decisions and chase overdue or inconsistent responses
• Track denied access, exceptions, and remediation through to completion and escalate control failures
• Maintain review records, evidence packs, process documentation, and MI using SharePoint and service tooling
• Analyze outcomes to identify data quality, ownership, policy, and process improvements
• Collaborate with engineering to define automation, reporting, and Entra governance enhancements
• Build trusted relationships with security, audit, risk, service, application and business stakeholders

Key requirements

• Proven experience in identity and access management, identity governance or access-control operations
• Hands-on experience planning or operating user access reviews or recertification
• Understanding IAM/IDAM lifecycle processes, least privilege and exception management
• Experience producing audit evidence and working with risk, compliance, or audit stakeholders
• Strong analytical skills to reconcile data and drive remediation to closure
• Experience maintaining operational records and evidence repositories using SharePoint
• Confident stakeholder management with ability to explain governance to technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to work independently with multiple review cycles, deadlines and escalations

• Stakeholder management
• Analytical thinking
• Independent working
• Microsoft Entra ID Governance (Access Reviews, Entitlement Management, Privileged Identity Management)
• Knowledge of RBAC and segregation of duties
• Experience with SharePoint or similar collaboration tooling

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