**General information** **Ref #** 18886 **Remote?** No **Ally and Your Career** * Ally Financial only succeeds when its people do - and that’s more than some cliché people put on job postings. We live this stuff! We see our people as, well, people - with interests, families, friends, dreams, and causes that are all important to them. Our focus is on the health and safety of our teammates as well as work-life balance and diversity and inclusion. From generous benefits to a variety of employee resource groups, we strive to build paths that encourage employees to stretch themselves professionally. We want to help you grow, develop, and learn new things. You’re constantly evolving, so shouldn’t your opportunities be, too? **The Opportunity** The Analyst - Program Management & Governance does anything possible to help the team perform at their highest level. This involves removing any impediments to progress, facilitating meetings and working with the product owners to ensure product is ready for the next sprint. The successful candidate will have extensive experience guiding teams and organizations on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to increase customer satisfaction. **The Work Itself** * Conduct Kanban/Scrum ceremonies (ceremonies and methodology is tailored to the applicable team/squad) * Facilitates the sizing of stories during the planning sprint, backlog grooming, or sprint planning sessions for the team. * Develop, administer, and manage Jira boards * Develops and maintains a productive working relationship with business owners, product owners, project sponsors, vendors and key clients. * Establishing team level cadence and driving team level ceremonies (e.g. sprint planning, team retrospectives, backlog grooming, etc. * Ability to facilitate working sessions as needed to capture detailed requirements and write user stories to assist business partners * Work with the teams to drive the definition and refinement of the program and team backlogs. * Escalate to leadership where needed and where possible remove impediments for the team(s). * Maintain metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on team-level progress and quality. * Act as a liaison to assigned program manager and project managers. * Take responsibility for managing dependencies between the program team and third parties, release managers, or between the team and other scrum teams. various project teams * Provide real time feedback to the methodology team based on experiences with software delivery teams. * Ensures scope, goals, milestones, budget, risk, status, change requests and critical issues are effectively communicated to the client and project team. * Use historical velocity and planned velocity to assist team with commitments **The Skills You Bring** * Agile, Scrum certification (e.g. CSM, PSM, SAFe, etc.) from accredited institution preferred. * 2+ years of experience working as a project manager or scrum master required, 3+ years of experience is preferred. * 2+ years leading and administering projects using a tool such as Jira, or similar project management system (e.g. VersionOne, Teamwork, Confluence, etc.) preferred. * Bachelor's degree required with a relevant field of study in Computer Science, Information Systems preferred. * Certified ScrumMaster (CSM or related certification strongly preferred) * Thorough understanding and experience working with both agile and waterfall methodologies on large scale, technically complex projects. \#LI-Hybrid \#DFS **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. But Ally’s total compensation - or total rewards - extends beyond your paycheck and is designed to support and enrich your personal and professional life, including: * Time Away: competitive holiday and flexible paid-time-off, including time off for volunteering and voting. * 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 and 529 educational assistance programs, tuition reimbursement, and other financial well-being programs. * Supporting your Health & Well-being: flexible health and insurance options including dental and vision, pre-tax Health Savings Account with employer contributions 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 support as well as parental and caregiver leave, back-up child and adult/elder day care program and childcare discounts. * Work-Life Integration: other benefits including LifeMatters® Employee Assistance Program, subsidized and discounted Weight Watchers® program and other employee discount programs. 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. Where permitted by applicable law, must have received or be willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine by date of hire to be considered, if not currently employed by Ally. We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical or mental disabilities. For accommodation requests, email us at work@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. **_Base Pay Range:_** An individual's position in the range is determined by the scope and responsibilities of the role, work experience, education, certification(s), training, and additional qualifications. We review internal pay, the competitive market, and business environment prior to extending an offer. **Emerging:** 55000 **Experienced:** 75000 **Expert:** 95000 Incentive Compensation: This position is eligible to participate in our annual incentive plan