Designed and validated an end-to-end Microsoft Entra Identity Governance workflow for sensitive Finance access. The solution governs access from business request and approval through automated provisioning, periodic certification, denial, and automatic revocation.
A concise walkthrough of the architecture, Microsoft Entra configuration, controls, and validation evidence behind this project.
Autumn Solutions needed a governed method for granting temporary Finance access without relying on permanent group membership or manual administrator cleanup. The control needed to capture business justification, separate the requester from the approver, provision access automatically, periodically recertify the assignment, and remove access when it was no longer required.
I created a Finance access catalog and access package containing SG-Finance and the LedgerFlow enterprise application. Taylor Brooks could request the package, while Jordan Lee served as the business approver and recurring access reviewer.
Taylor requested Finance access and supplied the required business-process answer and justification.
Jordan approved the request. Entitlement Management then provisioned SG-Finance membership and LedgerFlow access automatically.
The scheduled recurring review activated automatically. Jordan determined that the temporary business need had ended and denied continued access.
Entra applied the review result, expired the governed assignment, removed Taylor from SG-Finance, and removed LedgerFlow access without a manual administrator removal.
The evidence below captures the business decision, active certification process, reviewer denial, applied results, and downstream revocation.
The final implementation demonstrates that sensitive business access can be governed as a lifecycle rather than a one-time administrative action. Business justification was captured, approval responsibility was separated from IAM administration, access was provisioned automatically, continued need was recertified, and a Deny decision ultimately removed both group and application access automatically.
No manual removal from SG-Finance or LedgerFlow was used to complete the revocation. The access review decision drove the governance lifecycle through expiration and downstream removal.