Risk Manager - Scenario Analysis & Exercises

General information

Ally and Your Career

The Opportunity

This role is on a hybrid schedule in our Charlotte or Detroit office. In office a few days weekly with some remote days. This role is an individual contributor role and will report to the Scenario Analysis and Exercise Director and will support the continued evolution of Ally’s enterprise-wide scenario analysis and exercise capabilities.

This Scenario Analysis & Exercise Manager is an individual contributor role responsible for helping design, manage, and execute a holistic program that brings together scenario analysis, enterprise incident response exercises, and enterprise preparedness activities to build upon resilience activities. The role will support both financial and non-financial risk assessment, including Capital Plan Stress Testing scenario submissions, and incident response exercises that strengthen Ally’s ability to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disruptive events.

The ideal candidate is a strategic, collaborative, and highly organized risk and resilience professional who can connect scenario analysis with practical crisis preparedness. This individual is comfortable working across business lines, enterprise functions, risk partners, and leadership groups to design meaningful scenarios and exercises that challenge assumptions, strengthen response capabilities, and produce actionable insights.

They should be equally comfortable facilitating live exercises, coordinating Capital Planning inputs, conducting industry research, and tracking remediation through completion. This role requires someone who can bring structure to complex topics while remaining flexible enough to adapt as new risks, business needs, and stakeholder feedback emerge.

The Work Itself

The Scenario Analysis & Exercise Manager will be responsible for supporting the full lifecycle of enterprise scenario analysis and exercise activities, from scenario design and stakeholder engagement through facilitation, quantification, reporting, remediation tracking, and continuous improvement.

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead and manage the end-to-end execution of enterprise scenario analysis and exercise activities, including planning, design, facilitation, quantification, documentation, reporting, and remediation tracking.
• Support Ally’s Enterprise Resilience and Capital Planning stress testing processes by developing severe but plausible scenarios that assess financial and non-financial impacts across the organization.
• Manage Resilience and Operational Risk inputs for Enterprise Capital Plan Stress Testing scenario submissions, including coordination with business lines, Independent Risk Management, Finance, and other key stakeholders.
• Design, coordinate, and execute incident response exercises for senior leadership, enterprise response teams, business line incident response teams, and functional response partners.
• Develop scenario narratives, assumptions, injects, objectives, evaluation criteria, and supporting materials that test crisis response, business resiliency, operational risk, and decision-making capabilities.
• Facilitate dynamic workshops, tabletop exercises, trainings, and stakeholder discussions with participants across multiple levels of the organization.
• Conduct business line and enterprise function reviews to inform exercise design, risk prioritization, scenario selection, and the multiyear training and exercise plan.
• Lead external research, benchmarking, and industry analysis to enhance scenario analysis and exercise practices in alignment with regulatory expectations, emerging risks, and industry best practices.
• Support the implementation and maintenance of policies, frameworks, standards, and procedures for the Scenario Analysis and Exercise Program.
• Produce executive-level deliverables, including scenario summaries, exercise materials, after-action reporting, findings, remediation themes, and governance updates.
• Maintain reporting, evidence, and document retention processes to satisfy audit, regulatory, policy, and governance requirements.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal business partners, Independent Risk Management, enterprise functions, third parties, and other stakeholders that support Ally’s resilience and crisis management capabilities.
• Identify opportunities to continuously improve Ally’s Scenario Analysis and Exercise Program through innovation, enhanced stakeholder engagement, improved data usage, and stronger integration across risk and resilience frameworks.

The Skills You Bring

• 7 years of relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and experience
• High School Diploma or GED Equivalent

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree 
•  5+ years of experience in risk management, operational resilience, business continuity, crisis management, incident management, FP&A, audit, accounting, or a related discipline.
• Some Financial services experience
•  2+ years of leadership experience managing programs, initiatives, projects, and/or people.
• Working knowledge of risk management components in a regulated environment, including policies and procedures, governance, reporting, risk and control self-assessments, issue management, audit evidence, and remediation tracking.
• Strong facilitation skills, with experience leading dynamic conversations, workshops, trainings, and exercises with stakeholders at various levels of the organization.
• Accomplished communicator with the ability to influence outcomes, educate stakeholders on requirements and rationale, and produce clear executive-level materials.
• Strong organizational and program management skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams, deadlines, stakeholders, and deliverables.
•  Proficient listener and collaborator who can understand business needs, connect outputs across related programs, and identify opportunities to leverage scenario analysis and exercise results for multiple purposes.
• FP&A background and understanding of financial statement components preferred.

How We'll Have Your Back

Ally's compensation program offers market-competitive base pay and pay-for-performance incentives (bonuses) based on achieving personal and company goals. Our Total Rewards program includes industry-leading compensation and benefits plus additional incentives that are designed to meet your needs and those of your family so you can get the most out of your career and your life, including:

• Time Away: Program starts at 20 paid time off days in addition to 11 paid holidays and 8 hours of volunteer time off yearly (time off days are prorated based on start date and program varies based on full or part-time status and management level).
• Planning for the Future: plan for the near and long term with an industry-leading 401K retirement savings plan with matching and company contributions, student loan pay downs and 529 educational save up assistance programs, tuition reimbursement, employee stock purchase plan, and financial learning center and financial coach access.
• Supporting your Health & Well-being: flexible health and insurance options including medical, dental and vision, employee, spouse and child life insurance, short- and long-term disability, pre-tax Health Savings Account with employer contributions, Healthcare FSA, critical illness, accident & hospital indemnity insurance, and a total well-being program that helps you and your family stay on track physically, socially, emotionally, and financially.
• Building a Family: adoption, surrogacy and fertility assistance as well as paid parental and caregiver leave, Dependent Day Care FSA back-up child and adult/elder care days and childcare discounts.
• Work-Life Integration: other benefits including Mentally Fit Employee Assistance Program, subsidized and discounted Weight Watchers® program and other employee discount programs.
• Other compensations: depending on the role for which you are considered, you may be eligible for travel allowances, relocation assistance, a signing bonus and/or equity.
• To view more detailed information about Ally’s Total Rewards, please visit this link: https://www.ally.com/content/dam/pdf/corporate/ally-total-rewards-snapshot.pdf

Who We Are:

Ally Financial is a customer-centric, leading digital financial services company with passionate customer service and innovative financial solutions. We are relentlessly focused on "Doing it Right" and being a trusted financial-services provider to our consumer, commercial, and corporate customers. For more information, visit www.ally.com.

Ally is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy status, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic disposition or any other reason protected by law.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical or mental disabilities. For accommodation requests, email us at hrpolicy@ally.com. Ally will not discriminate against any qualified individual who is capable of performing the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.