Specialist: Information Security Analyst at Liberty Group South Africa

Purpose

• To support the IDN (Identity now project team to implement the various project phases.
• Implement and drive business readiness activities.
• Take responsibility for the on-boarding of IT and business /operational areas in cleaning up and maintaining user access data to enable the identity now processes and practices.
• Implement and drive the execution of all clean-up activities.
• Nurture, collaborate & maintain open communication channels with (Group Access Management) GAM and all support teams.
• Perform functional and user testing on identity now.
• Support & Administer the new system.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement and support the Request fulfilment, Access certification, Policy Violation and Role management processes.
• Implement and support the solicitation, gathering, and validation of business rules and requirements.
• Implement and support with the translation of business process rules into technical IT controls.
• Implement and support the process metrics in collaboration with identity now technical owner.
• Support and drive the coordination of cross-functional teams to facilitate and drive business readiness.
• Support and drive the Manage to Green/uncorrelated account clean-ups with relevant stakeholders.
• Receive clean up reports online/via e-mail from Manage to Green process and User access reviews/clean-up.
• Execute and drive the manual remediation of access based on system and user account reviews as well as new, removed or changed roles.

Additional Key Responsibilities

• Take responsibility for the inputs into the reporting requirements in collaboration with relevant stakeholders.
• Responsible for the monitoring of periodic access reports and initiate the necessary remedial action required.
• Facilitate/drive sign off of changed and new entitlements and related monitoring policies, segregation of duties, activity or risks in all environments and as part of system changes, support the take- on of new systems on identity now and implementation of new systems.
• Execute and drive the manual remediation of access based on system and user account reviews as well as new, removed or changed roles.
• Track and report on the progress of manual system clean-up workload.

Minimum Experience

• 2 – 5 years IT experience;
• Basic Computer skills.
• At least 3 years in information systems / security admin role;
• Exposure to IT Change and Release management will be beneficial;
• Knowledge of ITIL  and identity now Frameworks will be beneficial;
• Demonstrates competence in problem solving within the context of controlling information and communications re. access control fundamentals and standards.
• Has a broad knowledge and understanding of IT concepts and architectures and of the principles and processes of implementing and delivering IT services.

Minimum Qualifications

• Preferably educated to degree level or 2 to 5 years IT experience in a variety of IT functions (See below).
• Certification in IT Administration / Information Systems Management.
• Matric, A+ and or N+