Overview
At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK’s leading Wealth & Investments group. Strengthening talent and culture is a strategic priority to attract and retain the industry’s best talent and to provide excellent client service supported by leading technology and talent. Aberdeen comprises three businesses, interactive investor (ii), Investments, and Adviser, each focusing on meeting evolving client needs.
* interactive investor, the UK’s second largest direct-to-consumer investment platform, enables individuals in the UK to plan, save, and invest in the way that works for them.
* Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers.
* Our Investments business is a specialist asset manager focusing on areas where we have strength and scale to capitalise on key market themes through public markets or alternative asset classes.
About the Department
The Security, Resilience & Protection Department delivers a global, scalable and efficient service to enable the whole company to operate safely for customers, clients, our people and shareholders.
About the role
The IAM team develops the corporate Identity and Access Management technology service, provisioning and maintaining core user identities and entitlements across Aberdeen, including global territories. As regulatory requirements increase, several Group-wide strategic programmes are expanding IAM controls. We are seeking an additional Identity & Access Management Analyst to join the growing team and support the advancement of the IAM strategy at Aberdeen.
The role reports to the Identity & Access Management Lead and is based in Edinburgh. You will work closely with the Cyber Security Operations team, Risk & Compliance, HR, specialist 3rd party security suppliers, and global IT and business teams.
As an IAM Analyst you will be responsible for supporting the Joiners, Movers and Leavers (JML) processes and maintaining privileged access controls, across Aberdeen as well as provisioning real time access changes for business areas.
Key Responsibilities
* Support the Joiners, Movers and Leavers (JML) processing, ensuring access requests are completed in a timely manner and within published Service Level Agreements.
* Manage incident response for IAM related issues, resolving issues efficiently to minimise business disruption.
* Support the continuous development and management of Privileged Access Management (PAM) controls.
* Keeping technical and business knowledge up to date in area of expertise, e.g. relevant legislation changes or product rules.
* Proposing and delivering pragmatic, innovative, cost-effective solutions to complex problems where there are often no existing solutions or a new perspective is required.
* Seeking continuously and proactively to improve quality of analysis, service delivery, and/or business decision making.
* Undertaking an analysis of a range of data sources, to produce options and recommendations for a workable solution and drive action from key decision makers.
* Effectively managing relationships with internal and external stakeholders, to ensure successful delivery of solutions.
About the Candidate
* Experience working in an Identity Access Management role
* Experience working with One Identity IAM solution
* Broad knowledge of access controls across enterprise infrastructure and applications such as Active Directory
* Passion for security and self-development to keep up to date with evolving IAM trends, technologies and best practice
* Knowledge of security controls across Microsoft Technologies, such as Entra ID, PIM, Purview, Sentinel, Microsoft Defender for Identity is beneficial
* Familiarity with Security Policy and Governance and understanding of the NIST Cyber Security Framework is beneficial
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you have a disability and would like to apply to UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme, please notify us in the candidate questionnaire so our team can support you through your application process.
Our Benefits
There’s more to working life than salary. We offer an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported. This includes 40 days’ annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance-based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and flexible benefits – including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal. You can read more about our benefits here.
Our Business
Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas – our vectors of growth – focused on client needs. You can find out more about what we do here.
An Inclusive Way of Working
Whatever way you like to work, if you have the talent and commitment to join our team, we’d like to hear from you. We’ve adopted a blended working approach that combines face-to-face collaboration with flexible work from home to balance roles, teams, clients and the business. An inclusive culture, where diverse perspectives drive our actions, is at the core of who we are. If you need assistance with your application or an adjustment to interview arrangements – for example due to disability or neurodivergence – please let us know and we’ll help. We’re committed to an inclusive workplace that values diversity and fairness. If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.
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