Counter Threat Finance Analyst (D9 - EUCOM)

Amentum•Washington, DC

9d•$130,917 - $138,468

About The Position

Amentum is hiring a Counter Threat Finance Analyst to support U.S. and allied government efforts to disrupt illicit financial networks through counter threat finance (CTF) operations in the EUCOM area of responsibility. The analyst will support Threat Finance Intelligence (TFI) analysis and DoD activities in coordination with intelligence and law enforcement agencies and U.S. military organizations. Work includes analyzing financial networks associated with terrorism, narcotics, organized crime, and state-based threats, and supporting strategic, operational, and tactical efforts to identify, detect, target, and interdict these networks. The position develops analytical products and operational recommendations, including action plans, papers, reports, and target packages. It also supports planning and coordination of CTF activities, DoD reporting, law-enforcement case and designation materials, briefings for senior leaders, and policy and program work. The analyst receives and analyzes TFI information from DoD Components and the Intelligence Community, including TS/SCI information. CONUS and OCONUS travel may be required.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED with 10 years of specialized experience, or a bachelor’s or master’s degree with 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, detecting, targeting, and interdicting threat, terrorist, or criminal finance activities and networks.
Experience in counter-threat finance; experience may also 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 suite 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 information relevance against U.S. government standards.
Experience reviewing, prioritizing, and managing submitted requests.
Understanding of interagency restrictions and sensitivities on data sharing 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 outside DoD in areas such as policy formulation, acquisition, finance, drug law enforcement, and security, including efforts to disrupt and degrade national security threats posed by drug trafficking, piracy, transnational organized crime, and threat-finance networks reasonably related to illicit drug trafficking; experience must directly support the contract’s technical requirements.

Nice To Haves

CAMS (Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist), CFE (Certified Fraud Examiner), or another additional certification is preferred.
Willingness and ability to travel CONUS and OCONUS, as required.

Responsibilities

Support Threat Finance Intelligence analysis and facilitate intelligence-agency and other DoD counter-threat-finance activities throughout the customer area of responsibility; support law enforcement in ways that advance intelligence customer and DoD priorities.
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 contributing to DoD strategic, operational, and tactical support to law enforcement agencies, including development of theater-wide analytical products.
Identify, detect, and provide targeting and interdiction recommendations for counter-drug, counter-transnational organized crime, and counter-terrorism activities; research relevant area-of-responsibility issues for strategic-effects planning.
Support planning, organizing, and coordinating CTF activities in respective combatant command areas of responsibility and areas of interest, including support to other DoD Components’ law-enforcement efforts.
Support DoD CTF program reporting by drafting correspondence and briefings for DoD and U.S. government law enforcement personnel.
Provide advice on finance-oriented assessments supporting law enforcement 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 produce analytical products supporting DoD briefings to law enforcement agency personnel.
Develop TFI-derived action plans describing objectives, interagency operations and activities, intelligence-analysis activities, and coordination with military operations.
Produce papers describing adversary financial networks, their vulnerabilities, and interagency capabilities that can exploit those vulnerabilities.
Produce reports updating or summarizing operations, activities, and actions, and documenting lessons learned and intelligence-analysis support.
Develop target packages describing targets, their significance and vulnerabilities, the effects of disruption, and relevant community reporting.
Support CTF-focused conferences, including planning, setup, execution, removal, and follow-on activities.
Assist with drafting guidance and provide expertise on implementation of DoD counter-drug, counter-terrorism, and counter-threat-finance policy and related programs supporting law enforcement.
Assist in developing strategic documents, DoD directives and instructions, and other policy issuances concerning DoD activities to counter threat-finance challenges to U.S. national security.
Support DoD collaboration with law enforcement, intelligence communities, and other federal departments and agencies on CTF, counter-terrorism, and counter-drug matters.
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.