Access Governance Coordinator

Job summary

Coordinate access certification, entitlement review, and attestation campaigns, including planning, data validation, stakeholder follow-up, progress tracking, and escalation of overdue or high-risk items. Maintain governance reports and audit evidence, track remediation, support compliance and audit requests, and identify process and reporting improvements.

Job details

Access Governance Coordinator Location: Toronto, ON Onsite Flexibility: Hybrid — Tuesdays and every second Friday on-site Contract Details Position Type: Contract Contract Duration: 6 months (with potential for extension) Shift / Schedule: Monday–Friday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (37.5 hours/week) Job Summary This role sits within the Identity and Access Management (IAM) function, specifically supporting the Access Governance team at a major 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. Increased support is required for BAU requirements. 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. Required Skills 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. 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. Preferred Skills 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 Experience 1 to 3 years of relevant hands-on business experience in IAM or access governance. Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance Plans 401k Retirement Fund Important Notes Interview process: 1 round via Microsoft Teams with a Senior Manager (approximately 45 minutes). The candidate cannot start while employment history and regulatory credentials are being verified; verification must be completed prior to start. 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. The organization serves millions of clients across its home market and operates internationally, with significant commercial and investment banking presence in the United States and other global markets, employing tens of thousands of professionals including business analysts, technology specialists, IAM and cybersecurity professionals, enterprise program analysts, and DevOps engineers across its corporate and technology divisions. The institution is recognized for its structured career development framework, competitive compensation, and meaningful commitments to inclusion and diversity, making it a strong environment for professionals seeking stability and growth within a major financial institution. 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: 26-15431 #gttca

What you’ll do

Coordinate access certification, entitlement review, and attestation campaigns, including planning, data validation, stakeholder follow-up, progress tracking, and escalation of overdue or high-risk items. Maintain governance reports and audit evidence, track remediation, support compliance and audit requests, and identify process and reporting improvements.

Requirements

Requires 1–3 years of hands-on IAM or access governance experience, including campaign execution and experience with SailPoint IdentityIQ or a comparable platform. Candidates should be proficient in access-related 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
• 401k Retirement Fund

Listed skills

• Identity Governance · Preferred
• Data Validation · Preferred

Other relevant skills

Identified from the job description. Confirm important requirements above.

• Access Certification
• Entitlement Reviews
• Access Attestations
• SailPoint IdentityIQ
• Identity Governance
• Advanced Excel
• Data Validation
• Data Reconciliation
• Access Governance
• Least Privilege
• Role-Based Access Control
• Joiner/Mover/Leaver Processes
• ServiceNow
• CyberArk
• Audit Readiness
• Stakeholder Communication

Job areas

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

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