Job Title: Manager Identity and Access Management
Organisation: Housing Finance Bank
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports To: Head of Information Security
About the Company:
Housing Finance Bank, is a Commercial Bank and the leading provider of housing finance solutions with a vision to be the preferred consumer and business bank with a focus on housing finance.
Job Summary: The role is responsible for overseeing the bank’s Identity and Access Management program, ensuring that only authorized individuals have appropriate access to systems, applications, and data. This involves designing, implementing, and maintaining IAM policies, tools, and processes to mitigate security risks, streamline access controls, and comply with banking regulations.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain a strategic IAM framework aligned with the bank’s cybersecurity policies, business goals and regulatory requirements.
- Regularly review and update IAM policies to address emerging threats and compliance changes.
- Define and implement Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) or Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) models.
- Oversee the provisioning and de-provisioning of user accounts for employees, contractors, and third parties.
- Collaborate with IT, HR, compliance, and business units to align IAM processes with organizational needs.
- Manage and monitor privileged accounts to prevent misuse or unauthorized access.
- Create and manage access certification processes, ensuring periodic reviews of user access rights.
- Supervise access request workflows to ensure compliance with approval processes.
- Implement and manage MFA solutions across the bank’s critical systems while ensuring MFA adoption for remote access, privileged accounts, and high-risk applications.
- Deploy and manage SSO systems to simplify user access while enhancing security.
- Enforce strong password policies and implement password management tools.
- Oversee the creation, modification, and deletion of user accounts as employees join, change roles, or leave the bank ensuring timely removal of access for terminated employees or inactive accounts.
- Maintain IAM processes to comply with standards such as ISO 27001, PCI DSS, GDPR, and local banking regulations while ensuring timely implementation of audit recommendations related to IAM.
- Perform regular risk assessments to identify vulnerabilities in the IAM framework and respond to and investigate access related security incidents, such as unauthorized access or account compromise.
- Regularly review and update IAM policies, procedures, and workflows to improve efficiency and security.
- Automate repetitive IAM tasks such as provisioning, de-provisioning, and access reviews to improve efficiency.
- Define and monitor Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for IAM processes, such as provisioning times, access review completion
- rates, and incident resolution times and provide regular reports to key stakeholders.
Financial Responsibility:
- Develop and manage the budget for IAM activities.
- Justify investments in tools, training, and personnel for security initiatives.
- Ensure that adequate resources are available to meet security objectives
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree in IT, Computer Science, Cybersecurity or Business Administration or any other related field with a focus on Information Systems.
- 5+ years of relevant IAM experience in information security, governance, compliance, or risk management.
- Familiarity with frameworks like NIST CSF, ISO27001, COBIT, PCI DSS, or other industry standards.
- Relevant certifications in information security, governance and compliance such as CISSP, CISA, CRISC, CISM, ISO 27001 are highly desirable
Skills & Experience:
- Strong technical knowledge of IAM tools (e.g., Arcos, CyberArk), directory services (LDAP, Active Directory), and authentication protocols (e.g. SAML, OAuth) and cloud IAM (AWS IAM, Azure AD).
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills for risk assessment and mitigation.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Strong leadership and team management abilities.
Business Behaviours
- Excellent customer service and interpersonal skills.
- Proven initiative, good judgement and confidence.
- Proven compliance with audit and regulatory requirements.
- Ability to meet deadlines without close supervision.
- Total commitment to quality and attention to detail.
How to Apply:
Interested candidates should submit their applications with a recent CV, copies of all academic transcripts, certificates and testimonials, daytime telephone contact, postal and email address and three competent referees to:
Chief Human Resources Officer
Housing Finance Bank,
Investment House
4 Wampewo Avenue, Kololo
Please take note that all applications should be sent by email to [email protected]
DO NOT HAND DELIVER YOUR APPLICATION
Any form of canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification.
Guidelines for submitting Documents.
- Ensure that all your documents are scanned and submitted in 1 single batch using the following order:
- Application letter
- Curriculum Vitae (CV)
- Academic Documents and Certificates
- The maximum document size is 10 MB.
- Please indicate the name of the position you are applying for in the subject.
Deadline: 22nd April 2025
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