Senior Analyst - AI Intake, Prioritization & Governance

The Senior Analyst – CFO AI Intake, Prioritization & Governance supports the CFO organization in establishing and operating a formal process for AI intake, evaluation, prioritization, governance, and portfolio reporting. This role helps ensure AI use cases across Finance are reviewed consistently, aligned to business priorities, and governed in accordance with enterprise risk, control, and model management expectations.

The Senior Analyst works across CFO business teams, technology, data, risk, and control partners to coordinate AI demand intake, facilitate prioritization, support governance routines, and provide transparency into portfolio decisions, risks, and delivery status. The role also helps drive measurable business value by ensuring proposed AI use cases include defined objectives, success metrics, and value hypotheses, and that realized benefits are tracked over time.

In addition, this position supports responsible AI adoption across the CFO organization by coordinating stakeholder engagement, and support change enablement activities, including Copilot rollout and the CFO change champion network. This role requires strong business judgment, organizational and analytical skills, and the ability to operate effectively across a broad set of stakeholders with moderate independence.

At this time, Ally will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

This role reports to the office three times a week

• Support the design, implementation, and ongoing management of a formal AI intake and prioritization process across the CFO organization.
• Ensure CFO AI use cases are submitted through a defined intake and triage process with clear documentation of business objectives, value, risks, data readiness, and control requirements.
• Coordinate review and approval workflows for AI use cases and maintain clear visibility into pipeline status, prioritization decisions, dependencies, and governance outcomes.
• Support regular portfolio reviews and governance routines, including preparation of materials, status reporting, decision logs, and follow-up actions.
• Support the CFO Data & AI Steering Group and related governance forums; prepare reporting for CFO leadership on AI pipeline health, portfolio priorities, approval status, key risks, issue trends, and delivery progress.
• Document governance actions, decisions, exceptions, and remediation items, and track them through completion.
• Help ensure AI use cases and governance processes align with enterprise standards, including ERM and MRM frameworks, and applicable legal, compliance, and control expectations.
• Support tracking and reporting of realized business benefits, including efficiency gains, manual reduction, control improvements, and insight generation.
• Help build and coordinate a CFO change champion network to support Copilot rollout, responsible AI adoption, stakeholder readiness, and feedback collection.
• Support monthly change champion forums to reinforce messaging, share governance guidance and use cases, and identify adoption barriers, issues, and improvement opportunities.
• Assist with CFO technology budget planning, prioritization, and spend tracking related to AI and technology initiatives, including identification of funding reallocation opportunities.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of AI intake, governance, reporting, and portfolio management processes across the CFO organization.

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience
• High school diploma or GED equivalent

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, accounting, information systems, data analytics, or a related field, or equivalent work experience preferred
• 3+ years of experience in in project management, portfolio management, governance, business analysis, finance operations, technology delivery, risk, controls, or a related function
• Experience in finance, accounting, treasury, controllership, FP&A, audit, risk, compliance, or another CFO-facing function
• Experience supporting intake, prioritization, governance, or portfolio reporting processes
• Exposure to AI, automation, advanced analytics, Copilot, or other emerging technology initiatives in a business environment
• Familiarity with AI governance, enterprise risk management, model risk management, controls, or regulatory expectations
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities and coordinate across a broad range of stakeholders
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to synthesize information, prepare executive-level reporting, and present clear recommendations
• Ability to identify dependencies, risks, governance gaps, and process improvement opportunities
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint or similar business tools
• Experience with project, portfolio, workflow, or governance tracking tools preferred

• 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.
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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.