Access Governance Coordinator #108159

Access Governance Coordinator #108159

Request ID: 108159-1
Start/End Dates: 10/26/2026 - 4/25/2027
Work Location: downtown Toronto, near TTC and GO
Job Title: IT - Business Systems Analyst - Entry

Job Title: Access Governance Coordinator
Line of Business:
Identity and Access Management, Access Governance
Target rate range: $50-54hr B2B

Target Start Date: ASAP – 10/26/2026
Duration: 6 months
Potential for this contract to be extended or converted to FTE? Yes - both potentially

Hybrid work - onsite -Tuesdays plus 2nd Friday of each month
Office Location: 81 Bay St Toronto
Work Schedule (hours per week, start time): 37.5 Hours/week, 9-5 Monday to Friday
Potential for OT? Not likely.

What does the LOB do?: 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.
Reason the role is open? Increased support is required for BAU requirements
What project will this contractor be working on? 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.

Team Size? 11 on team
Highlights of the role; why would someone choose this role over another?
o Opportunity to Gain further hands-on experience supporting enterprise-wide access governance activities within a major financial institution.
o Exposure to access certification, attestation campaigns, logical access controls, risk, compliance, audit readiness, and remediation activities.
o Opportunity to work with SailPoint IdentityIQ, ServiceNow, Active Directory, CyberArk, Excel, and related IAM processes.
o Strong environment for someone who wants to deepen existing IAM experience and learn how access governance is performed within CIBC.
o Potential for continued opportunities if the contractor performs well and future funding becomes available

Who Will the Candidate Be Working with on a Daily Basis? The contractor will work closely with the access governance team, internal IAM operations groups, service owners, business stakeholders, technology teams, control partners, certifiers, and audit or compliance stakeholders
How many years of experience? 1-3 years

Job Description:
o Coordinate access certification campaigns, entitlement reviews, and attestation activities across IAM-supported platforms.
o Support campaign planning, scheduling, scoping, stakeholder communications, data validation, and issue resolution.
o Extract, validate, reconcile, and analyze access-related data.
o Monitor campaign progress and track outstanding access reviews.
o Follow up with certifiers and stakeholders to support timely campaign completion.
o Escalate overdue reviews, non-compliance, control concerns, and high-risk access issues through established governance channels.
o Support manual attestation activities where required.
o Prepare and maintain governance reports, trackers, evidence, and control documentation.
o Support remediation tracking for audit findings, control deficiencies, and process gaps.
o Assist with internal and external audit requests, compliance reviews, and regulatory-readiness activities.
o Identify opportunities to improve reporting, processes, and automation.
o Collaborate with business, technology, operations, service-owner, audit, risk, and control stakeholders.
o Apply an understanding of provisioning and deprovisioning concepts when reviewing access changes arising from attestation activities   

Must Have Requirement:
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:
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
 
Soft 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.


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