Counter Threat Finance Analyst

Amentum•Houston, TX

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 work with intelligence agencies, law enforcement agencies, U.S. military organizations, and other government partners to identify and disrupt illicit financial networks that fund terrorism, narcotics operations, organized crime, and state-based threats. The work supports national defense and may involve tracking cross-border financial flows, conducting in-depth analysis of high-value targets, and briefing senior leaders. The role provides Threat Finance Intelligence (TFI) analysis and related operational, strategic, policy, and program support throughout the customer’s area of responsibility. Analysts produce assessments, action plans, papers, reports, target packages, briefings, and other products that support DoD activities and law enforcement agencies. They also assist with planning and coordination, reporting requirements, policy development, conferences, and interagency collaboration. Work may involve Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI). CONUS and OCONUS travel may be required.

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 counter-threat finance 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 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 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 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 outside DoD in areas such as policy formulation, acquisition, finance, drug law enforcement, and security, and in disrupting and degrading national security 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 contract’s technical requirements.

Nice To Haves

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

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, 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 support to law enforcement agencies; contribute to theater-wide analytical products as needed.
Identify, detect, and develop targeting and interdiction recommendations for counter-drug, counter-transnational organized crime, and counterterrorism activities, including research and analysis of area-of-responsibility issues relevant to strategic effects planning.
Support planning, organizing, and coordinating CTF activities in respective CCMD areas of responsibility and interest, and support other DoD components’ efforts for 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 that support law enforcement agencies’ case files, evidentiary materials, 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 develop analytical products for DoD briefings to law enforcement agency personnel.
Assist in developing TFI-derived action plans, papers, reports, and target packages, including descriptions of adversary financial networks and vulnerabilities, interagency operations and analysis, lessons learned, ongoing activities, target significance, and potential effects of disruption.
Provide program and policy support, including planning, setting up, executing, and following up on CTF-focused conferences.
Assist in drafting guidance and provide expertise on implementation of 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 related to countering threat-finance challenges to U.S. national security.
Support DoD collaboration 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 as part of DoD support to law enforcement agencies.
Receive and analyze TFI information disseminated by DoD components or elements of the Intelligence Community, including TS/SCI information.