Data Analyst

About the Role

FSA Federal (FSA) is seeking a Data Analyst (Legal Assistant) to support the Financial Litigation Unit (FLU) of a United States Attorney’s Office. This role supports a nationwide law enforcement mission focused on financial litigation, criminal and civil debt collection, restitution enforcement, and disrupting the financial infrastructure of criminal organizations. The Data Analyst (Legal Assistant) will review and extract information from legal, financial, and law enforcement sources; establish and maintain case files; prepare opening documents and correspondence; generate reports; and coordinate with prosecutors, investigators, probation officers, and court personnel. The position requires strong analytical and research skills, attention to sensitive information, and the ability to work with multiple data sources and databases.

Key Responsibilities

• Extract information from LIONS, PACER, Judgments in a Criminal Case, Pre‑sentence Reports, and other relevant sources.
• Open criminal cases with minimal supervision.
• Create case folders and prepare initial case‑opening documentation.
• Generate demand letters, liens, probation letters, prison letters, priority code memoranda, and memoranda to the victim‑witness coordinator.
• Deliver case folders and opening documents to Financial Litigation Unit agents and investigators in a timely manner.
• Coordinate with criminal prosecutors, financial investigators, probation officers, and the Clerk of the District Court.
• Support enforcement of restitution judgments on behalf of victims of crime.
• Generate reports supporting criminal and civil debt collection activities.
• Obtain and review reports from sources including the United States Probation Department, LexisNexis, credit reporting sources, and the United States Bureau of Prisons Sentry system.
• Ensure required reports are generated promptly.
• Maintain sensitive reports and case information securely.
• Establish, organize, and maintain case and project files.
• Enter, retrieve, manipulate, transfer, compute, and print data and information.
• Prepare and format management reports, correspondence, and other documentation.
• Create and manipulate spreadsheets.
• Prepare and correct reports and correspondence using word processing software.

Required Qualifications

• High school diploma.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Ability to research factual and legal issues involving complex criminal and civil matters.
• Ability to review and analyze information from multiple sources.
• Ability to establish and maintain case or project files.
• Ability to enter and retrieve data from databases.
• Ability to prepare and format management reports.
• Ability to manipulate, transfer, compute, and print information.
• Ability to create and manipulate spreadsheets.
• Ability to prepare and correct reports and correspondence using word processing software.
• U.S. citizenship.
• Ability to successfully complete a 7‑ or 10‑year minimum background investigation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.

Skills & Competencies

• Data Analysis
• Legal Research
• Factual Research
• Data Extraction
• Data Review and Analysis
• Database Management
• Case Management