Risk Manager - Scenario Analysis & Exercises

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications

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

Skills

• Strategic, collaborative, and highly organized risk and resilience professional
• 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
• Comfortable facilitating live exercises, coordinating Capital Planning inputs, conducting industry research, and tracking remediation through completion
• Structuring complex topics while remaining flexible enough to adapt as new risks, business needs, and stakeholder feedback emerge