Access Governance & Compliance Operations Consultant

G MASS Consulting; New York (NY); On-site; USD 185,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pay: $1,000-1,100/d

Initial 12-month contract

Job summary

G MASS Consulting in New York seeks an Access Governance & Compliance Operations Consultant to join the Legal & Compliance function of a leading global financial services firm. You will own an established access governance program, oversee day-to-day controls, and coordinate with engineers, risk, and operations on BAU tasks.

Based on-site five days a week in Midtown, NY, with start targeted for August 2026 and a mature, automated control environment to maintain.

Qualifications

• Experience in identity and access management (IAM) or access governance.
• Experience reviewing access controls in regulated environments.
• Ability to engage engineers on systems architecture and entitlement configuration.
• Proven ability to coordinate across a large, matrixed organisation.
• Highly organized with a concurrent BAU workload.
• Willingness to flag violations and enforce control requirements.
• Familiarity with JIRA is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end management of access controls separating two entities within the same firm.
• Coordinate rollout of new access control groupings across systems and teams.
• Monitor daily exception reports and investigate anomalies with system owners.
• Administer access controls across Active Directory, Unix groups, JIRA, SharePoint, and service accounts.
• Manage physical access controls including badge and door access.
• Review employee transfers and adjust access accordingly.
• Review and approve new department access configurations as teams are created.
• Manage shared resources tracking for technology infrastructure.
• Review software access requests from a compliance and access perspective.
• Administer entitlements within Legal and Compliance access systems.
• Conduct annual audits of access groups and shared resources.
• Test Active Directory and Unix access groups to verify controls.
• Track workstreams and report to senior leadership via JIRA.

Skills

IAM

Access governance

Compliance operations

BAU management

JIRA

Tools

Active Directory

Unix

JIRA

SharePoint

Job description

G MASS are seeking an Access Governance & Compliance Operations Consultant to join the Legal & Compliance function of a leading global financial services firm, operating across both its hedge fund and broker-dealer entities.
You will take on a mature, fully-built access governance and compliance programme, delivering day-to-day oversight of a well-established control environment. The programme is mature with strong controls and significant automation already in place; the new hire will inherit a functioning operation rather than build one from scratch. The role requires someone assertive enough to chase resolution across a large organisation, comfortable engaging engineers and technology teams on systems and access management, and organised enough to manage a broad and varied BAU workload concurrently. This is not a short-term assignment: significant institutional knowledge is required, and the end goal is for the successful candidate to own the programme outright.
You will engage closely with a three-person compliance function, liaising with senior stakeholders across business, risk, technology, and operations. The role is based five days per week on-site in Midtown, New York. The target start date is August 2026.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end management of access controls separating two distinct entities within the same firm, ensuring all controls remain accurate and fit for purpose
• Coordinate the rollout of new access control groupings across systems and teams, following an established playbook and ensuring all relevant parties are engaged through to completion
• Monitor daily exception reports, investigating anomalies with system owners and determining whether activity constitutes a control breach or misconfiguration
• Administer access controls across Active Directory, Unix groups, JIRA, SharePoint, and service accounts, ensuring permissions accurately reflect required separations
• Manage physical access controls including badge and door access, floor and building separation, and weekly desk move approvals
• Review employee transfers across divisions, assessing whether a control boundary is crossed, and deactivating and reissuing system access accordingly
• Administer new department access assignments, reviewing and approving configurations for new teams as they are created
• Manage a shared resources tracking process for technology infrastructure shared between two related entities, reviewing new requests, maintaining existing entries, and removing resources no longer in use
• Review and approve new software requests from a compliance and access perspective, as one of three reviewers alongside information security and engineering
• Administer entitlements across the Legal and Compliance function, ensuring access rights are granted at the appropriate level within internal access management systems
• Conduct annual audits of access control groups and shared resource tracking on a sampling basis to confirm controls remain fit for purpose
• Perform periodic testing of Active Directory and Unix access groups to verify that technical controls are functioning as intended
• Track workstreams and report on team accomplishments to senior leadership via JIRA, and act as a central coordination figure within the team

Requirements

• Background in identity and access management (IAM), access governance, control room compliance, or compliance operations; candidates need not come from a hedge fund or broker-dealer environment
• Experience administering or reviewing access controls within a regulated or enterprise environment, financial services or otherwise
• Comfortable engaging engineers and technology teams on systems architecture, logical access separation, and entitlement configuration without needing a technical background
• Proven ability to operate with persistence across a large, matrixed organisation, chasing resolution from senior and diverse stakeholders across business, technology, risk, and operations
• Highly organised with the ability to manage a broad, concurrent BAU workload without dropping detail
• Confident enough to flag violations and hold the line on control requirements across the firm
• Familiarity with JIRA is advantageous but not essential

Benefits

Pay: $1,000-1,100/d
Length: initial 12-months