Identity Remediation & Onboarding Analyst

Overview

Point72 is seeking an Identity Remediation and Onboarding Analyst to join its Technology team. This role is crucial for enhancing the firm's IT infrastructure security by actively identifying, remediating, and preventing identity-related risks. The analyst will also facilitate the secure onboarding of applications and accounts onto the firm's security platforms, contributing to a robust and compliant access control environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Execute identity remediation projects to eliminate orphaned accounts, stale access, excessive privileges, and unmanaged service accounts across critical systems.
• Perform direct cleanup and risk reduction for accounts, entitlements, and privileged access, ensuring alignment with firm standards.
• Drive improvements in service security, including the remediation of clear-text passwords, implementation of credential vaulting and rotation, ownership validation, and enforcement of lifecycle controls.
• Support the integration of applications and privileged accounts into the firm’s Identity Governance & Administration (IGA) solution and Privileged Access Management (PAM) platforms, adhering to access control requirements.
• Reduce administrative access on critical platforms by identifying and rectifying excessive privileges and implementing least-privileged controls.
• Strengthen group and entitlement governance through simplification of complex group structures and adoption of standardized access models.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, and engineering teams to implement necessary access changes and close control gaps.
• Track all remediation efforts to completion, maintaining thorough, audit-ready documentation and quantifiable evidence of risk reduction.
• Monitor shared mailboxes and ticketing queues pertaining to remediation and onboarding activities, ensuring prompt responses, proper prioritization, and timely escalation.
• Leverage AI tools and large language models to automate routine analysis, reconciliation, and documentation tasks.

Required Skills

• Minimum of 3 years of professional experience in Identity & Access Management (IAM), information security, identity operations, or a comparable technology role.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience in identity lifecycle management, account remediation, or access cleanup initiatives within an enterprise setting.
• Practical experience with Identity Governance & Administration (IGA) solutions, such as SailPoint, including application onboarding or entitlement management.
• Proficient working knowledge of Active Directory, group-based access models, and service account management.
• Experience supporting privileged account onboarding or working with Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions (e.g., CyberArk or similar).
• A strong understanding of identity hygiene principles, least-privilege design, service account risk management, and best practices for access control.
• Experience in supporting remediation tracking and audit-related validation activities, including the generation of audit-ready evidence.
• Proven ability to analyze extensive access and entitlement datasets (e.g., access extracts, entitlement listings, reconciliation reports) to pinpoint control gaps and prioritize corrective actions.
• Exceptional organizational skills, enabling effective management of multiple remediation workstreams and driving issues to closure.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to coordinate remediation and onboarding efforts across global stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience leveraging AI tools or large language models to automate analytical, documentation, or reconciliation activities.
• Commitment to the highest ethical standards.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health care benefits
• Maternity, adoption, and related leave policies
• Generous paternity and family care leave policies
• Employee Assistance Program and mental wellness programs
• Transportation support
• Tuition assistance

Additional Information

Point72 is a global alternative investment firm that emphasizes an investor-led culture and invests in its people's long-term growth.