Access Management Analyst

Bachelor of Science (Computers), MBA/PG Diploma in Business Mgmt

Nationality: Any Nationality

Vacancy: 1 Vacancy

Job Location: United Arab Emirates

Experience: 3 to 5 years

Post Graduate: Engineering Graduates/PG; MBA / Management Post Graduates; CA / CS / CFA / All Professional Finance Degrees

Job Function:

1. Banking / Financial Services
2. IT - Software

Skillset: Knowledge of privileged management solutions

Key Accountabilities of the role:

1. Perform access reviews on Business application access, infrastructure application access or any other special access provided to the users.
2. Ensure access governance policies are applied across all access provided for staff across the organization including business applications or infrastructure applications.
3. Perform ad-hoc access reviews on applications based on identified risk escalations.
4. Review the application matrix for business departments and highlight any unauthorized access/risky access based on access management principles such as Least privilege principle and segregation of duties.
5. Coordinate with business units, HR department, and ICD for identifying unauthorized access and taking necessary remediation actions.
6. Govern the privileged access provided to staff.
7. Perform assessment on exceptions to the approved access matrix and highlight any identified risks.
8. Govern the IDAM solution and ensure access governance policies on IDAM workflows.
9. Govern the PAM solution and ensure access governance policies on PAM workflows.
10. Support and contribute to bank-wide data classification exercise for the entire bank.
11. Develop and maintain DLP policies, rules, and exceptions.
12. Periodic review of data protection policies.
13. Maintain updated data registers and assist in implementing DLP rules for the completed data registers.
14. Create data flow maps from the data registers.
15. Timely KPI and KRI reporting related to data security and access governance.
16. Participate in the Information security programs and projects.
17. Support information security compliance assessments, audits, gap analyses, and remediation related to data security and access governance.

Specialist Skills / Technical Knowledge Required for this role:

1. Knowledge about Identity and Access Management Solutions and methodologies.
2. Knowledge of privileged management solutions, DLP solution preferably Forcepoint or Microsoft Purview.
3. Knowledge of Information security & control frameworks, regulations, international standards, and best practices.
4. Experience in managing policy exceptions, including working directly with teams to document exceptions, identify compensating controls, and remediation action plans.
5. Work independently without detailed guidance.
6. At least one Security, Risk, or IT certification held or in process (i.e., CISSP, ITIL, CISM, ISO 27001, Security+).
7. Bachelor's degree in computer science or information security from an accredited 4-year university (Master's degree preferred).

Previous Experience:

3-5 years of experience in the information security, information technology, enterprise risk, or compliance field preferably in banking and finance industry.