Counter Threat Finance Analyst (H17 - NORTHCOM)

Amentum•Sterling, VA

About The Position

Amentum is hiring 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 supports Threat Finance Intelligence (TFI) activities across the customer’s area of responsibility and works with intelligence agencies, law enforcement agencies, U.S. military organizations, and other government partners. The work supports efforts against illicit financial networks associated with terrorism, narcotics, organized crime, and state-based threats, and may involve strategic, operational, and tactical analysis, target research, operational planning, and briefings to senior leaders. The role provides intelligence analysis and related program and policy support to Department of Defense (DoD) activities supporting law enforcement agencies. Analysts may develop theater-wide analytical products, action plans, papers, reports, and target packages; assess financial networks and their vulnerabilities; and recommend courses of action and operational alternatives. The position also supports CTF-focused conferences, policy and guidance development, interagency coordination, and DoD reporting requirements. It requires handling and analyzing information that may include Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI). The compensation range is $130,660–$138,310. CONUS and OCONUS travel may be required. Amentum lists health, dental, and vision insurance; paid time off and holidays; retirement benefits including 401(k) matching; educational reimbursement; parental leave; an employee stock purchase plan; tax-saving options; disability and life insurance; and pet insurance. Benefits may vary by 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, valid 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 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 (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, 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 certain types of data and the steps necessary 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, and in disrupting and degrading threats posed by 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 Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) or Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE).
Willingness or ability to travel CONUS and OCONUS, as travel may be required.

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 support intelligence customer and DoD priorities, coordinating with U.S. government law enforcement agencies and U.S. military organizations.
Provide intelligence analysis services under 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; contribute to theater-wide TFI analytical products as needed.
Identify, detect, and provide targeting and interdiction recommendations for counter-drug, counter-transnational organized crime, and counter-terrorism activities, including research and analysis relevant to strategic effects planning.
Support planning, organizing, and coordinating CTF activities in respective combatant command areas of responsibility and areas of interest, and support other DoD Components’ efforts to assist law enforcement agencies.
Draft correspondence and briefings to support DoD CTF program reporting requirements for DoD and U.S. government law enforcement personnel.
Monitor and advise on finance-oriented assessments supporting law enforcement agencies’ case files, evidentiary material, designation packages, and actionable intelligence.
Analyze and develop courses of action and operational alternatives for DoD Component leadership in response to law enforcement agency requests.
Brief DoD Component leadership and prepare analytical products for DoD briefings to law enforcement agency personnel.
Assist in developing TFI analysis-derived action plans, papers, reports, and target packages, including products describing objectives, interagency activities, financial networks and vulnerabilities, lessons learned, ongoing operations, and target significance and vulnerabilities.
Support CTF-focused conferences, including planning, setup, execution, removal, and follow-on activities.
Assist in drafting guidance and provide expertise on implementing DoD counter-drug, counter-terrorism, and counter-threat-finance policy and related efforts supporting law enforcement agencies.
Assist in developing strategic documents, DoD directives and instructions, and other policy issuances addressing counter-threat-finance challenges to U.S. national security.
Support DoD coordination with law enforcement and intelligence communities and other federal departments and agencies on CTF, counter-terrorism, counter-drug, and counter-transnational-organized-crime 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.