Counter Threat Finance Analyst

Amentum•Fort Bragg, NC

About The Position

Amentum is hiring a Counter Threat Finance Analyst to support U.S. and allied government efforts to disrupt illicit financial networks connected to terrorism, narcotics operations, organized crime, and state-based threats. The role supports Threat Finance Intelligence (TFI) and other Department of Defense counter-threat-finance (CTF) activities throughout the customer’s area of responsibility, working with U.S. government law enforcement agencies, intelligence agencies, and military organizations. The position is scheduled to be funded and available October 28, 2026. The analyst provides CTF/TFI analysis in support of strategic, operational, and tactical activities, including identifying financial networks and vulnerabilities, recommending targeting and interdiction actions, and supporting law enforcement case files, evidentiary material, and designation packages. Work may include developing action plans, papers, reports, and target packages; analyzing complex strategic, policy, and program issues; advising DoD leadership on courses of action; and preparing briefings and written products for DoD and law enforcement personnel. The role also provides program and policy support, including assistance with conferences, guidance, strategic documents, directives, and interagency coordination. The position requires an active Top Secret/SCI government security clearance, with U.S. citizenship required to maintain the clearance. CONUS and OCONUS travel may be required. The stated annual compensation range is $110,000–$120,000.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED and 10 years of specialized experience, or a bachelor’s or master’s degree and 5 years of specialized experience.
Active Top Secret/SCI government security clearance; U.S. citizenship is required to maintain the clearance.
Finance-specific analytical experience identifying or detecting, targeting, and interdicting threat, terrorist, or criminal finance activities and networks. Experience must include CTF and may include human intelligence and signals reporting, criminal and regulatory investigations, designation cases, and Bank Secrecy Act reporting mechanisms such as Suspicious Activity Reports.
Competence using specialized intelligence analysis tools, such as Proton, KaChing, DataXplorer, and Voltron Suite.
Competence using intelligence report aggregators and automated message-handling search tools, such as TAC, RMT, NGT, and Horizon.
Competence using intelligence data-visualization tools, such as Google Earth, Palantir, Analyst Notebook, and Target Cop.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.
Proficiency using existing and new analytical tools to exploit raw financial, business-registry, and corporate-company data.
Knowledge of interagency threat-finance cells.
Skill in applying best practices and proper tradecraft and determining the relevance of information against U.S. government standards.
Experience reviewing, prioritizing, and managing submitted requests.
Understanding of interagency restrictions and sensitivities on sharing data and the steps needed to share data across agencies.
Understanding of relevant DoD intelligence and intelligence-oversight policies, procedures, and requirements.
Expert-level skill working with U.S. government departments and agencies other than DoD in areas such as policy formulation, acquisition, finance, drug law enforcement, and security, and in disrupting or degrading threats from drug trafficking, piracy, transnational organized crime, and threat-finance networks reasonably related to illicit drug trafficking.
Specialized knowledge and experience must directly support the technical requirements of the contract.

Nice To Haves

Additional certification such as CAMS (Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist) or CFE (Certified Fraud Examiner) is preferred.

Responsibilities

Support Threat Finance Intelligence analysis and facilitate intelligence-agency and other DoD counter-threat-finance activities throughout the customer’s area of responsibility.
Support law enforcement agencies in ways that also advance intelligence-customer and DoD priorities, working with U.S. government law enforcement agencies and U.S. military organizations.
Provide intelligence analysis services pursuant to 10 U.S.C. 284 and Section 1022 of the NDAA for FY 2004, as amended.
Provide CTF/TFI analysis for DoD strategic, operational, and tactical support to law enforcement agencies, including contributing to theater-wide analytical products.
Identify, detect, and provide targeting and interdiction recommendations for counter-drug, counter-transnational-organized-crime, and counterterrorism activities; research area-of-responsibility issues relevant to strategic-effects planning.
Support the planning, organization, and coordination of CTF activities in respective combatant-command areas of responsibility and interest and support other DoD components’ efforts with law enforcement agencies.
Draft correspondence and briefings to support DoD CTF program reporting requirements and communications with DoD and U.S. government law enforcement personnel.
Monitor and advise on finance-oriented assessments supporting law enforcement agencies’ development of case files, evidentiary material, designation packages, and actionable intelligence.
Analyze issues, develop courses of action, and provide operational alternatives to DoD component leadership in response to law enforcement agencies’ requests.
Brief DoD component leadership and prepare analytical products for DoD briefings to law enforcement agency personnel.
Develop TFI analysis-derived action plans describing objectives, interagency activities, intelligence analysis needs, and coordination with military operations.
Prepare papers describing adversary financial networks, their vulnerabilities, and interagency capabilities that could exploit those vulnerabilities.
Prepare reports updating or summarizing operations, activities, and actions (OAAs), including lessons learned and intelligence-analysis support.
Prepare target packages describing investigation targets, their network significance, centers of gravity and vulnerabilities, potential effects of disruption, and community reporting.
Support CTF-focused conferences, including planning, setup, execution, removal, and follow-on activities.
Assist with drafting guidance and provide expertise on implementing DoD counter-drug, counterterrorism, and counter-threat-finance policy and related support to law enforcement programs.
Assist in developing strategic documents, DoD directives and instructions, and other policy issuances related to countering threat-finance challenges to U.S. national security.
Support DoD engagement with law enforcement and intelligence communities and other federal departments and agencies on CTF, counterterrorism, and counter-drug issues.
Analyze complex strategic, policy, and program issues and provide analysis to DoD components in support of law enforcement agencies.
Receive and analyze TFI information disseminated by DoD components or Intelligence Community elements, including TS/SCI information.