Compliance Analyst

WPP is the transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients, and communities.

Working at WPP means being part of a global network of more than 100,000 accomplished people in 110 countries. We create transformative ideas and outcomes for its clients through an integrated offer of communications, experience, commerce, and technology. WPP and our award-winning agencies work with most of the world's biggest companies and organisations – from Ford, Unilever and P&G to Google, HSBC, and the UN. Our clients include 61 of the FTSE 100, 325 of the Fortune Global 500, all 30 of the Dow Jones 30 and 62 of the NASDAQ 100.

WPP has headquarters in New York, London and Singapore and a corporate presence in major markets worldwide. We are quoted on the London Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange. Key performance indicators for WPP (2020) include Billings of £46.9bn and Revenue of £12bn.

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Why we're hiring:

At WPP, technology is at the heart of everything we do, and it is WPP IT’s mission to enable everyone to collaborate, create and thrive. WPP IT is undergoing a significant transformation to modernise ways of working, shift to cloud and micro-service-based architectures, drive automation, digitise colleague and client experiences and deliver insight from WPP’s petabytes of data.   

We have identified need of a Compliance analyst reporting to Manager- Privileged Access Management. This role will be primarily responsible for Privileged Access Management for exerting control over the elevated (“privileged”) access and permissions for users, accounts and systems across our agencies/brands. 

What you'll be doing:

• Support the quarterly Privileged access review and identify any gaps, risks and areas for improvements.
• Ability to confidently articulate business risks and technical challenges to senior stakeholders.
• Operate Privileged Access Management (PAM) processes that include health check assessments, strategy, and implementation engagements.
• Work with the PAM Lead to deliver the PAM strategy.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of operational PAM processes and capabilities to ensure ongoing compliance with WPP policies and industry good practice.
• On boarding of external and internal users into PAM (Privileged Access Management) tool.
• Provide the technical assistance to PAM external/internal users.
• Ensure the Incident tickets are closed within the agreed SLA.
• Take the ownership of changes performed towards regular patching of PAM appliance.
• Be a focal point of contact for Internal and external audits.

What you'll need:

• 2-4 years’ experience of IT and IT risk management.
• Demonstrable experience and understanding of IT risk management frameworks (eg COBIT).
• Hand on experience of Privileged access management, tools, techniques, and methodologies
• Good knowledge of IT and the key technologies used by large corporates (AD, Windows Server, Office 365, Cloud).
• Strong self-motivation and ability to apply appropriate judgement and initiative.
• Communication skills including the ability to explain technical complex issues in a concise and business focused manner.
• Pragmatic problem solving and ability to work in a complex global environment.
• Ability to drive areas to closure and ensure results.
• Ability to interface/negotiate with internal and external auditors in support of organization.
• Understanding the importance of strong Security controls and maintaining a positive user experience.
• Understands security concepts to engage with security technologists and communicate in a language that is appropriate to audience.
• Technical and service awareness.
• Retains a holistic view on the end-to-end security service lifecycle, ensures continued quality of service for established security products and services
• Assist on making decisions based upon evidence and data.

Who you are:

You're open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are accepting: of new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.

You're optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.

You're extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.

What we'll give you:

Passionate, inspired people – We promote a culture of people that do extraordinary work.

Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.

Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?

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