Access Governance & Compliance Operations Consultant

G MASS; New York (NY); On-site; USD 184,500 - 202,950; Full time

Job summary

G MASS is seeking an Access Governance & Compliance Operations Consultant to manage access governance and compliance monitoring in a renowned financial services firm. This role involves day-to-day ownership of an established program and serves as a crucial point of coordination within a close-knit compliance team.

This position, based in Midtown, New York, offers significant opportunities for progression, including a possible transition to a full-time role after the initial contract. Ideal candidates will have a background in identity management and compliance operations.

Qualifications

• Background in IAM, access governance, or compliance operations.
• Experience in administering or reviewing access controls.
• Highly organised with the ability to manage a concurrent BAU workload.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end management of access controls.
• Coordinate the rollout of new access control groupings across systems.
• Monitor daily exception reports and investigate anomalies.
• Administer access controls across various systems.
• Manage physical access controls including badge and door access.

Skills

Identity and access management (IAM)

Access governance

Control room compliance

Compliance operations

Logical access separation

Tools

JIRA

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.

This is an embedded, programme ownership role covering access governance, entitlements management, and compliance control monitoring across the firm. The successful candidate will take full day-to-day ownership of a well‑established programme, running it independently from day one. 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’ll be joining a close‑knit three‑person compliance team at one of the most prominent names in global finance, with genuine long‑term progression on offer. After year one, there is the opportunity to convert to a full‑time employee. 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

Qualifications

• 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

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

Length: initial 12‑months, with the potential to be made permanent