Associate Director - IAM Operations and Governance

About the role

The Associate Director, IAM Operations and Governance will lead the team responsible for IAM audit controls and compliance governance across the identity estate. This hands-on role will set direction, translate strategy into an executable roadmap, assign clear ownership, remove delivery barriers and ensure commitments are completed to the required quality and timelines.

What you'll do

• Lead the IAM controls, audit assurance and compliance governance capability, including its people, operating model, roadmap, delivery and outcomes; set clear priorities
• Own the IAM control framework for SOX, GxP and other applicable regulatory and enterprise requirements, ensuring clear control objectives, ownership, frequency
• Establish continuous controls monitoring across joiner, mover and leaver processes, access approvals, access certification, segregation of duties, privileged access
• Design and implement an automated control library that maps each control to its policy and regulatory requirement, systems in scope, control owner, required evidence
• Apply Agentic AI and workflow automation to collect and validate evidence, detect control failures, identify missing or inconsistent artefacts

What you need

• IAM
• Compliance
• SOX
• Risk management
• Internal audit
• Root cause analysis
• Any graduate

Good to have

• CISA
• CISSP
• ISO 27001
• Power BI
• ServiceNow