Founded in 2003, GAIN Credit is a tech-forward, inclusive, and responsible business using world-class innovative technology and data science to provide endless gaining opportunities for customers, employees, and

merchants alike. At GAIN Credit, our mission is to empower lives, which is about providing solutions that meet the credit needs of society in an affordable and responsible manner, ensuring that we always treat customers

fairly, helping our customers when they need it most by providing access to credit and giving them realistic timelines to re-pay.

Our flagship brands – Lending Stream & Drafty – enjoy 4.4 & 4.3 ratings onTrustPilotrespectively (UK’s leading customer review website). Drafty – our pioneering credit-line product – is a first-of-its-kind, no-fee credit line and has been awarded ‘Innovation of the Year’ for 2017 and

2018 by the Consumer Credit Awards.In India, we are among the top 55 Great places to work. People at GAIN Credit – ‘GAINers’ as we call them – are our assets. We believe happy people lead to happy customers.

And this is why a great work culture is a super high priority at GAIN Credit. We make that happen through living our company values in every interaction we have with each other. In fact, we believe the only way

to ‘gain’ at GAIN Credit is through living our company values.

Some of our awards:

·Rankedamong India Great places to work (mid-sized segment) in 2025-26

·Best Short-term loan provider at Consumer Credit Awards - 2025

To know more about us:

Website: www.gaincredit.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gaincredit/mycompany/

Is this the place for you?

As a GAINer, you will get to focus on your personal and professional gains, experience an award-winning workplace culture, access to perks, maintain work-life balance, and contribute to the community in meaningful ways. As a GAINer, integrity will guide everything you do, with a service mindset that puts others first. You will foster curiosity to drive learning, focus on continuous improvement, and take accountability for your actions to deliver exceptional outcomes.

We strongly believe in:

At GAIN Credit, we believe that our fantastic teams help build the best products that enable us to understand and attract more customers. Therefore, we completely support and welcome diversity across thoughts, people, and actions.We

care about our employees, and their well-being and have many on-going activities to boost their physical, mental, and financial wellbeing. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds, culture, age, gender, orientation, and abilities to apply

for all our openings and offer reasonable support to achieve their qualified goals.

Our core strength:

We are at the core, an analytics company, founded by people who, about 30 years ago, were pioneers in applying predictive modelling to solve business problems.



As we morphed into a financial services company from being an analytics consultant, we continued to train our scientists to apply these techniques, as well as cutting-edge advances, and become a transformative leader in credit underwriting in the UK.

Contract duration: Six months

Location: Chennai.

Hours: India business hours with agreed UK working-hours overlap

Purpose: Maximise the value of Microsoft 365 Business Premium following the move from E3, strengthen security and device management, and leave controls that the permanent team can operate. The role also includes modernising virtual desktop and device management on Microsoft Entra ID and Intune, and improving how leaver mailbox data is retained and governed.

Responsibilities

Assess and plan

- Review the current Business Premium configuration, licences, policies, integrations and security posture.

- Map the move from E3, including capabilities gained, retained or lost, unused Business Premium features and any justified add-ons.

- Identify material gaps, risks, dependencies and quick wins.

- Build a ranked delivery plan and agree priorities with stakeholders.

- Review the current virtual desktop, directory and device management setup, and the existing process for retaining leaver mailbox data.

- Own Microsoft 365 design and configuration. Routine user support remains with the operations team.

Build and deliver

- Device management: Intune enrolment, configuration, compliance, application deployment and update controls for Windows, macOS and Azure Virtual Desktop.

- Identity and access: user lifecycle, multifactor authentication, Conditional Access, administrative roles and guest access.

- Security: Microsoft Defender for Business, Defender for Office 365 Plan 1, endpoint protection and alert tuning.

- Data protection: sensitivity labels, retention, Data Loss Prevention for Exchange, SharePoint and OneDrive, eDiscovery Standard and Audit Standard.

- Collaboration: Exchange, Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive configuration and governance.

- Automation and self-service: group-based access, workflows, scripts and reporting.

- Licensing boundaries: document requirements that need add-ons, enterprise capabilities or a different operating control.

- Virtual desktop and identity modernisation: move Azure Virtual Desktop and related devices from hybrid Active Directory to cloud-native Microsoft Entra ID and Intune management, including Group Policy migration.

- Mailbox retention and offboarding:



design and implement a governed Microsoft 365 process for retaining and accessing leaver mailbox data, aligned with retention and audit requirements.

Run safely

- Test, release and roll back changes through change control.

- Monitor delivered controls and resolve implementation issues.

- Keep settings aligned with agreed security baselines and regulatory requirements.

Govern and sustain

- Establish periodic access reviews with named owners, evidence and tracked remediation.

- Use available Business Premium capabilities and recommend additional licensing only where native automation or broader governance is justified.

- Establish licence, guest-access and external-sharing reviews.

- Define controls for inactive accounts, devices and groups.

- Create reports and dashboards that show control health and audit evidence.

- Run the first agreed control cycles and fix weaknesses found.

Document and hand over

- Write runbooks, as-built documents and user guidance.

- Train named team members to operate each delivered area.

- Contribute to related Microsoft 365, end-user computing, identity and security priorities during the six-month term.

Deliverables

- Current-state and E3-transition review with findings, risks, quick wins and licence boundaries in the first month.

- Agreed and ranked improvement plan focused on using Business Premium effectively.

- Agreed controls built, tested and released with change records and rollback plans.

- Virtual desktop and leaver mailbox processes moved to governed, cloud-managed Microsoft 365 controls.

- Repeatable governance processes in place, including the first agreed access review cycle.

- Reports that show control health and provide audit evidence.

- Current runbooks, as-built documents and a trained owner for each delivered area.

Must have

- At least seven years of hands-on Microsoft 365 administration, including strong Business Premium experience.

- Experience delivering Microsoft 365 work from assessment and design through release and handover.

- Experience managing Windows and macOS devices with Intune.

- Strong identity, access and security skills across Microsoft 365.

- Experience with Azure Virtual Desktop and with migrating from hybrid Active Directory to Microsoft Entra ID and Intune, including Group Policy migration.

- Experience in a regulated industry and a clear understanding of audit evidence and compliance needs.

- Automation experience using PowerShell and Microsoft Graph.

- Clear written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

- Ability to work independently and own outcomes.

Nice to have

- Relevant Microsoft certifications.

- Experience applying ISO 27001 or CIS Benchmarks to Microsoft 365.

- Experience with Exchange Online retention and eDiscovery, and with Power Automate.

📌 Consultant (Chennai)
🏢 GAIN Credit
📍 Chennai