Counter Threat Finance Analyst (NORTHCOM - H15)

About the Role

Amentum is a global leader in advanced engineering and innovative technology solutions, trusted by the United States and its allies to address their most significant and complex challenges in science, security, and sustainability. In this role, you will support U.S. and allied government efforts to disrupt threat networks through counter threat finance operations. Your work will directly contribute to national defense and global stability by identifying and disrupting illicit financial networks that fund terrorism, counter narcotics operations, organized crime, and state-based threats.

This position involves working alongside experts and government partners in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment. You will track money flows, conduct deep-dive analysis on high-value targets, and brief senior leaders, all in support of operational success and national defense priorities.

Responsibilities

• Support Threat Finance Intelligence (TFI) analysis and facilitate Intel Agencies and other DoD Counter Threat Finance (CTF) activities throughout the Customer Area of Responsibility (AOR).
• Support law enforcement agencies in ways that align with Intel Customer and DoD priorities.
• Collaborate with multiple U.S. Government (USG) 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.
• Contribute to DoD strategic, operational, and tactical support to law enforcement agencies through CTF/TFI analysis.
• Develop theater-wide TFI analytical products to support CTF activities.
• Enable identifying, detecting, and providing targeting and interdiction recommendations for Counter-Drug (CD), Counter-Transnational Organized Crime (CTOC), and CT activities.
• Conduct research and analysis of AOR issues relevant to strategic effects planning.
• Support the planning, organizing, and coordinating of CTF activities in respective Combatant Command (CCMD) AORs/Areas of Interest (AOIs), and in support of other DoD Components’ efforts.
• Draft correspondence and briefings for DoD and USG law enforcement agency personnel to support DoD CTF program reporting requirements.
• Monitor and provide CTF/TFI-related advice on finance-oriented assessments that contribute to DoD’s support to law enforcement agencies’ development of case files, evidentiary material, and designation packages.
• Analyze, develop courses of action, and provide specific operational alternatives to DoD Component leadership in response to law enforcement agencies’ requests.
• Provide briefings to DoD Component leadership and analytical products to support DoD briefings to law enforcement agency personnel.
• Assist in the development of TFI analysis-derived action plans, papers, reports, and target packages, including:
  • Action Plans: Narrative and/or briefing products describing strategic, operational, and/or tactical objectives against an adversary's financial network, interagency operations, intelligence analysis activities, and synchronization with military operations.
  • Papers: Narrative products highlighting an adversary's financial network, vulnerabilities, and interagency capabilities to exploit those vulnerabilities.
  • Reports: Narrative and/or briefing products providing updates on operations, lessons learned, and summaries of ongoing activities or intelligence analysis support.
  • Target Packages: Combinations of narrative and/or briefing products describing specific targets, their significance, vulnerabilities, and the impact of disrupting their activities.
• Provide program and policy support, including:
  • Support for CTF-focused conferences, including planning, execution, and follow-on activities.
  • Drafting guidance and providing expertise on implementing DoD CD/CTOC/CTF policy and supporting law enforcement agencies’ programs.
  • Assisting in the development of strategic documents, DoD Directives and Instructions, and other policy issuances related to counter-threat finance challenges.
  • Supporting DoD’s collaboration with law enforcement, intelligence communities, and other Federal departments and agencies on CTF/CTOC/CD/CT issues.
  • Analyzing complex strategic, policy, and program issues to support DoD components in their efforts to assist law enforcement agencies.
• Receive and analyze TFI information disseminated by DoD Components or elements of the Intelligence Community, including Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI).

Requirements

• High School Graduate or G.E.D. with ten (10) years of specialized experience OR Bachelor's/Master's degree and 5 years of specialized experience.
• Valid/active Top Secret/SCI Government Security Clearance. Note: U.S. Citizenship is required to maintain this clearance.
• Finance-specific analytical experience dealing with identifying, detecting, targeting, and interdicting threat, terrorist, and/or criminal finance activities and networks.
• Experience in Counter Threat Finance (CTF), which may include human intelligence and signals reporting, criminal and regulatory investigations, designation cases, and familiarity with Bank Secrecy Act reporting mechanisms such as Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR).
• Competency in utilizing specialized intelligence analysis tools (e.g., Proton, KaChing, DataXplorer, Voltron Suite).
• Competency in utilizing intelligence report aggregators/automated message handling system search tools (e.g., TAC, RMT, NGT, Horizon).
• Competency in utilizing intelligence data visualization tools (e.g., Google Earth, Palantir, Analyst Notebook, Target Cop).
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite applications.
• Ability to exploit raw financial data, business registry, and corporate company data using existing and new analytical tools.
• Knowledge of interagency threat finance cells and best practices in tradecraft.
• Experience reviewing, prioritizing, and managing submitted requests.
• Understanding of interagency restrictions and sensitivities on sharing certain types of data, as well as the steps necessary to share such data.
• Familiarity with relevant DoD intelligence and intelligence oversight policies, procedures, and requirements.
• Expert-level skill in working with U.S. Government Departments and Agencies (other than DoD) in areas such as policy formulation, acquisition, finance, drug law enforcement, security, and disrupting national security threats posed by drug trafficking, piracy, transnational organized crime, and threat finance networks.

Desired Skills

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

CONUS and OCONUS travel may be required.

Pay

$118,000 - $125,000 annually. The compensation range is a good-faith estimate and may vary based on factors such as job responsibilities, education, experience, skills, internal equity, market data, applicable collective bargaining agreements, and relevant laws.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Paid time off and holidays
• Retirement benefits (including 401(k) matching)
• Educational reimbursement
• Parental leave
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Tax-saving options
• Disability and life insurance
• Pet insurance

Note: Benefits may vary based on employment type, location, and applicable agreements. Positions governed by a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), the McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract Act (SCA), or other employment contracts may include different provisions/benefits.