Access Governance Coordinator

Job summary

Coordinate access certification, entitlement review, and attestation campaigns, including planning, data validation, stakeholder follow-up, progress monitoring, and escalation of overdue or high-risk items. Maintain governance reports and control evidence, support audits and remediation tracking, and identify opportunities to improve processes and reporting.

Job details

Access Governance Coordinator Location: Toronto, ON Onsite Flexibility: Hybrid — 1 Tuesday and second Friday on-site per cycle Contract Details Position Type: Contract Contract Duration: 6 months (with potential for extension) Pay Rate: C$40.00–C$45.00 / Hour (CAD) Shift / Schedule: Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (37.5 hours per week) Job Summary This role sits within the Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Governance and Identity and Access Review team at a major multinational financial institution. The team supports enterprise-wide identity and access governance activities, including access certification campaigns, entitlement reviews, attestations, logical access control execution, compliance reporting, audit readiness, and remediation tracking. The function works with business, technology, operations, control, and service-owner teams to help ensure logical access is appropriately reviewed and governed. The contractor will support the team's business-as-usual access governance activities, particularly the back-end coordination and execution of access certification and attestation campaigns. Key Responsibilities Coordinate access certification campaigns, entitlement reviews, and attestation activities across IAM-supported platforms. Support campaign planning, scheduling, scoping, stakeholder communications, data validation, and issue resolution. Extract, validate, reconcile, and analyze access-related data. Monitor campaign progress and track outstanding access reviews. Follow up with certifiers and stakeholders to support timely campaign completion. Escalate overdue reviews, non-compliance, control concerns, and high-risk access issues through established governance channels. Support manual attestation activities where required. Prepare and maintain governance reports, trackers, evidence, and control documentation. Support remediation tracking for audit findings, control deficiencies, and process gaps. Assist with internal and external audit requests, compliance reviews, and regulatory-readiness activities. Identify opportunities to improve reporting, processes, and automation. Collaborate with business, technology, operations, service-owner, audit, risk, and control stakeholders. Apply an understanding of provisioning and deprovisioning concepts when reviewing access changes arising from attestation activities. Must-Have Requirements Hands-on experience supporting access certification, entitlement review, or attestation campaigns, including campaign launches, review tracking, stakeholder follow-up, and issue resolution. Practical experience with SailPoint IdentityIQ or a comparable identity governance platform. Candidates using another platform must have performed similar access-governance activities. Experience extracting, validating, reconciling, and analyzing access-related data, including advanced Excel functions such as VLOOKUP or XLOOKUP. Working knowledge of access governance processes, including least privilege, role-based access, joiner/mover/leaver processes, and access changes resulting from attestations. 1 to 3 years of relevant hands-on business experience in IAM or access governance. Nice-to-Have Requirements Experience supporting access governance within banking, financial services, or another highly regulated environment. Hands-on experience with ServiceNow for workflow, request, issue, or remediation tracking. Exposure to CyberArk or privileged access governance. Experience supporting access-control audits, compliance reviews, control evidence, or remediation tracking. Experience with automation or scripting, such as VBS or a comparable technology, to improve governance processes or reporting Required Skills High attention to detail and commitment to accuracy. Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities. Organized and able to manage multiple priorities and deadlines. Collaborative, team-oriented, and respectful. Comfortable following up with stakeholders and escalating overdue or high-risk items. Strong written and verbal communication skills. Professional judgment and accountability. Takes ownership of work and understands the potential risk impact of access-governance activities. Required Experience Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance Plans 401k Retirement Fund About the Client This client is a large, full-service multinational financial institution offering a comprehensive range of banking, wealth management, and capital markets products and services to individuals, businesses, and institutional clients globally, with significant commercial and investment banking presence in the United States and other international markets. Employing tens of thousands of professionals worldwide, the organization brings together roles spanning technology, risk, compliance, identity and access management, business analysis, and enterprise programs delivery across its global operations. The institution is recognized for its structured career development framework, competitive compensation, inclusive culture supported by employee-led resource groups, and hybrid work arrangements available across many functions. About GTT GTT is a minority-owned staffing firm and a subsidiary of Chenega Corporation, a Native American-owned company in Alaska. We highly value diverse and inclusive workplaces and support Fortune 500 organizations across banking, financial services, technology, life sciences, biotech, utilities, and retail sectors throughout the U.S. and Canada. Job Number: 26-17991

What you’ll do

Coordinate access certification, entitlement review, and attestation campaigns, including planning, data validation, stakeholder follow-up, progress monitoring, and escalation of overdue or high-risk items. Maintain governance reports and control evidence, support audits and remediation tracking, and identify opportunities to improve processes and reporting.

Requirements

Requires 1–3 years of hands-on IAM or access governance experience, including campaign execution and practical use of SailPoint IdentityIQ or a comparable platform. Candidates should be skilled in access-data analysis and advanced Excel, understand core access governance concepts, and demonstrate accuracy, organization, communication, and sound judgment.

Benefits

• Medical Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Fund

Listed skills

• Control · Preferred
• Validation · Preferred
• analysis · Preferred
• Data Validation · Preferred
• Client · Preferred
• Compliance · Preferred
• Execution · Preferred
• Planning · Preferred
• management · Preferred
• Reporting · Preferred
• Audit · Preferred
• Tracking · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Access Governance
• Identity and Access Management
• Access Certification
• Entitlement Reviews
• Attestation Campaigns
• SailPoint IdentityIQ
• Access Data Analysis
• Advanced Excel
• Least Privilege
• Role-Based Access Control
• Joiner/Mover/Leaver Processes
• Stakeholder Communication
• Audit Readiness
• Remediation Tracking
• ServiceNow
• CyberArk

Job areas

• Technology
• Security & Safety
• Data & Analytics
• Finance & Accounting
• Administrative

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