Counter Threat Finance Analyst (H17 - NORTHCOM)

Amentum•Sterling, VA

5d•$130,660 - $138,310

About The Position

Amentum is seeking a Counter Threat Finance Analyst to support U.S. and allied government efforts to disrupt threat networks through counter threat finance (CTF) operations. The analyst will support Threat Finance Intelligence (TFI) activities across the customer area of responsibility, working with U.S. government law enforcement agencies, intelligence agencies, and military organizations. The role contributes to DoD strategic, operational, and tactical support to law enforcement agencies, including identifying, detecting, targeting, and interdicting illicit financial networks associated with terrorism, narcotics, organized crime, and state-based threats. The analyst conducts complex financial and intelligence analysis; develops courses of action and operational alternatives; prepares analytical products, target packages, correspondence, reports, and briefings; and advises DoD component leadership. Work may involve analysis of TS/SCI information and support to law enforcement case files, evidentiary materials, and designation packages. The position also provides program and policy support, including assistance with CTF conferences, policy guidance, strategic documents, DoD directives and instructions, and interagency coordination. The role may require CONUS and OCONUS travel. Compensation is listed as $130,660–$138,310. Amentum offers health and welfare benefits, with offerings potentially varying based on employment type, location, and applicable agreements.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED and ten years of specialized experience, or a bachelor's or master's degree and five 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, detecting, targeting, and interdicting threat, terrorist, and/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 (SARs).
Competence with specialized intelligence analysis tools such as Proton, KaChing, DataXplorer, and Voltron Suite.
Competence with intelligence report aggregators and automated message handling system search tools such as TAC, RMT, NGT, and Horizon.
Competence with 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 data, business registry data, and corporate company data.
Knowledge of interagency threat finance cells.
Skill applying best practices and proper tradecraft and determining information relevance against U.S. government standards.
Experience reviewing, prioritizing, and managing submitted requests.
Understanding of interagency restrictions and sensitivities regarding data sharing and the steps needed to share data among agencies.
Understanding of relevant DoD intelligence and intelligence oversight policies, procedures, and requirements.
Expert-level skill working with U.S. government departments and agencies outside DoD in areas such as policy formulation, acquisition, finance, drug law enforcement, and security, and in disrupting or degrading national security threats posed by drug trafficking, piracy, transnational organized crime, and threat finance networks reasonably related to illicit drug trafficking activities. Specialized knowledge and experience must directly support the contract's technical requirements.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Support Threat Finance Intelligence analysis and facilitate intelligence agency and other DoD CTF activities throughout the customer area of responsibility.
Support law enforcement agencies in ways that also support intelligence customer and DoD priorities, and work 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 supporting DoD strategic, operational, and tactical assistance to law enforcement agencies, including contributing to theater-wide analytical products.
Identify, detect, and provide targeting and interdiction recommendations for CD/CTOC/CT activities; research and analyze area-of-responsibility issues relevant to strategic effects planning.
Support the planning, organization, and coordination of CTF activities in respective CCMD AORs/AOIs and support other DoD components' efforts to assist law enforcement agencies.
Support DoD CTF program reporting requirements by drafting correspondence and briefings for DoD and U.S. government law enforcement personnel.
Advise on finance-oriented assessments supporting law enforcement agencies' case files, evidentiary material, and designation packages, including actionable intelligence.
Analyze issues, develop courses of action, and provide operational alternatives to DoD component leadership in response to law enforcement agency requests.
Provide briefings to DoD component leadership and prepare analytical products supporting DoD briefings to law enforcement agency personnel.
Develop TFI analysis-derived action plans, papers, reports, and target packages, including analysis of adversary financial networks, vulnerabilities, interagency operations, and potential effects of disrupting targets.
Support CTF-focused conferences, including planning, setup, execution, removal, and follow-on activities.
Assist in drafting guidance and provide expertise on implementing DoD CD/CTOC/CTF policy and DoD efforts supporting law enforcement programs.
Assist in developing strategic documents, DoD directives and instructions, and other policy issuances addressing counter-threat-finance challenges to U.S. national security.
Assist DoD coordination with law enforcement and intelligence communities and other federal departments and agencies on CTF/CTOC/CD/CT issues.
Analyze complex strategic, policy, and program issues and provide analysis to DoD components supporting law enforcement agencies.
Receive and analyze TFI information disseminated by DoD components or Intelligence Community elements, including TS/SCI information.