Counter Threat Finance Analyst (H14 - NORTHCOM)

Amentum•Houston, TX

9d•$116,380 - $123,010

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 works with government partners, law enforcement agencies, intelligence organizations, and U.S. military organizations to identify and disrupt illicit financial networks connected to terrorism, narcotics, organized crime, and state-based threats. The role supports the customer’s area of responsibility and contributes to national defense priorities through financial intelligence analysis, operational planning, policy support, and briefings. The analyst provides Threat Finance Intelligence (TFI) analysis and supports DoD activities assisting law enforcement agencies. Work includes analyzing finance-oriented assessments, developing courses of action and operational alternatives, supporting case files and evidentiary materials, and preparing analytical products for DoD leaders and law enforcement personnel. The role may involve receiving and analyzing information classified Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI), as well as travel within and outside the continental United States. The position also supports CTF program and policy efforts, including conferences, guidance, strategic documents, DoD directives and instructions, and collaboration with law enforcement, intelligence, and other federal organizations. Compensation is listed at $116,380–$123,010. Amentum offers health and welfare benefits, though provisions may vary by employment type, location, and applicable agreements.

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 or detecting, targeting, and interdicting threat, terrorist, or criminal finance activities and networks.
Specialized experience must include counter-threat finance; it 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 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 in applying best practices and proper tradecraft and determining the relevance of information under U.S. government standards.
Experience reviewing, prioritizing, and managing submitted requests.
Understanding of interagency restrictions and sensitivities on sharing data and the steps required 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 CAMS (Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist) or CFE (Certified Fraud Examiner) is preferred.
CONUS and OCONUS travel may be required.

Responsibilities

Support Threat Finance Intelligence (TFI) 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; work with U.S. government law enforcement agencies and U.S. military organizations.
Provide intelligence analysis 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 counterdrug, counter-transnational-organized-crime, and counterterrorism activities; research area-of-responsibility issues relevant to strategic-effects planning.
Support planning, organizing, and coordinating CTF activities in respective combatant-command areas of responsibility or interest and support other DoD components’ efforts with law enforcement agencies.
Support DoD CTF program reporting requirements by drafting correspondence and briefings for DoD and U.S. government law enforcement personnel.
Monitor and advise on finance-oriented assessments that contribute to law enforcement agencies’ 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 agency requests.
Provide briefings to DoD component leadership and prepare analytical products for DoD briefings to law enforcement personnel.
Assist in developing TFI analysis-derived action plans, papers, reports, and target packages, including analysis of adversary financial networks, vulnerabilities, interagency activities, lessons learned, and targets of investigations.
Support CTF-focused conferences, including planning, setup, execution, removal, and follow-up.
Assist in drafting guidance and provide expertise on implementation of DoD counterdrug, counter-transnational-organized-crime, and CTF policy and related programs supporting law enforcement agencies.
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, counterterrorism, counterdrug, 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 elements of the Intelligence Community, including TS/SCI information.