IAM Risk & Governance Lead

Worldpay • Alpharetta, GA

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

This position is hybrid 3 days per week in the following office locations: Cincinnati, OH or Atlanta, GA. Ready to take your career global? Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We’re looking for an IAM Risk and Governance Lead to join our ever-evolving IAM team and help shape the future of global commerce.

Requirements

• 10+ years in IAM, cybersecurity risk, technology controls, or audit readiness, including 3+ years leading teams or cross-functional IAM governance programs in a large, regulated enterprise.
• Ability to build and coach a team, set priorities, and hold stakeholders accountable for outcomes.
• Demonstrated leadership of IAM workstreams across multiple SOX/SOC and internal or external audit cycles, including walkthroughs, control testing coordination, evidence quality assurance, deficiency assessment, corrective-action tracking, and executive reporting.
• Strong working knowledge of IAM, PAM, and IGA controls, including joiner-mover-leaver processes, authentication, privileged access, access reviews, segregation of duties, dormant accounts, excessive permissions, and cloud identity governance.
• Ability to translate technical workflows and configurations into clear control narratives and risk decisions.
• Hands-on experience operating GRC evidence and remediation workflows in platforms such as AuditBoard, Archer, or ServiceNow, plus experience leading enterprise platform evaluation or implementation.
• Ability to define requirements, assess integration and automation options, manage a backlog, and demonstrate adoption and operational value.
• Strong stakeholder management across IAM engineering, control owners, GRC, Finance, service providers, and auditors.
• Ability to build business cases, define useful control metrics and dashboards, communicate material risk to executives, and drive timely remediation across organizational boundaries.

Nice To Haves

• Experience integrating GRC workflows with platforms such as SailPoint, Saviynt, BeyondTrust, CyberArk, Delinea, Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, AWS, or enterprise HR and service-management systems.
• Experience with control automation, continuous control monitoring, permissions-risk dashboards, and process improvement that measurably reduces evidence preparation and control-owner workload.
• Relevant credentials such as CISA, CRISC, CISSP, CISM, PMP, Security+, Scrum Master, or Lean Six Sigma, and experience in payments or financial services.

Responsibilities

• Lead the IAM Controls & Audit team, establishing operating standards, ownership models, staffing priorities, and a multi-year controls and automation roadmap.
• Own IAM audit and assessment coordination across SOX, SOC, internal/external audits, regulatory reviews, customer audits, and security assessments, from planning through remediation.
• Develop and govern the IAM control framework covering identity lifecycle management, access provisioning, authentication, privileged access, certifications, segregation of duties, and cloud/service identities.
• Drive control readiness and remediation by overseeing testing, evidence quality, issue tracking, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and risk escalation.
• Lead IAM GRC strategy and platform management, including tool selection, implementation, integrations, governance, vendor management, and ongoing service delivery.
• Automate audit and control processes through integrations with IAM, IGA, PAM, HR, cloud, and service management platforms to improve efficiency, traceability, and compliance.
• Chair the IAM Controls Council and provide leadership reporting on control health, audit outcomes, remediation status, automation adoption, risk reduction, and operational effectiveness.

Benefits

• The people, the energy, the connections – it’s unmatched. Come and be part of an ever-evolving company and get dynamic opportunities that go beyond borders.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed