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Celestar Corporation is seeking an Expert Threat Finance Analytic Cell to support The U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) under the United States Army Counterintelligence Command (USACIC) Analytical Support Contract. The primary place of performance will be Fort Meade, MD. If interested and meet the qualifications, we encourage you to apply for this rewarding and impactful opportunity.
ANTICIPATED AWARD: July 2026
ANTICIPATED START: July 2026
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE: 1 Base Year + 4 Option Years
LOCATION: Fort Meade, MD
SALARY: $165,000-$169,000
CLEARANCE REQUIREMENT: Active TS/SCI
About Us:
Celestar, a proud Veteran-Owned company, offers highly competitive salaries and benefits. Our comprehensive benefits package includes company-paid employee and family dental insurance, employee health insurance, life insurance, and disability coverage. Additionally, we provide a 401(k)-retirement plan with company matching, paid holidays, and personal time off.
Responsibilities:
• The Threat Finance Analytic Cell shall serve as a Threat Finance Analyst and organizational Financial Intelligence Expert in the UACIC, Threat Financial Analytic Cell, for financial intelligence threats to Army Investigations and Operations.
• Conduct research, threat financial analysis, and financial forensics examination of counterintelligence, counter-terrorism, force protection, and information operations of foreign military forces, and their operations, capabilities, activities and trends to support investigations and operations.
• Conducts all-source forensic accounting analysis and production, by fusing financial / transactional data from formal banking systems, financial reports, and other forms of reporting.
• Analyzes specific foreign financial activities including threat financiers, facilitators, and financial networks / operations associated with, but not limited to, terrorism, CD, narco-terrorism, counterintelligence, insurgency, proliferation, and operational activity which threatens US national security interests. Aggregates and fuses multi-modal transactional data and identity. Maps and performs analysis of financial data from formal banking systems, financial reports, and informal transfer means.
• Prepares and integrates financial data from all available sources including, but not limited to, SIGINT intercepts; HUMINT; Law Enforcement Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), search warrants and subpoenas; DOMEX, and shared data such as Bank Secrecy Act, formal banking system, Suspicious Activities Reports, and informal systems.
• Understands payment relationships, revenue-generation, and money-laundering methods. Applies statistical techniques including flows analysis, visualization, and geospatial analysis tools to bulk and raw transactional data. Applies pattern analysis to large data sets.
• Applies intelligence collection requirements, essential elements of information, priority intelligence requirements, and search terms to DOMEX triage processes. Applies data engineering to interface with structured data and data forensics tools.
• Conduct threat financial intelligence research and all-source analysis of data in order to provide threat financial intelligence products, briefings, assessments on threat financiers, facilitators, and financial operations and networks associated with counterintelligence, cyberspace domain, terrorism, insurgency, proliferation, and nation state adversaries.
• Extract and fuse transactional data from all sources to provide value-added analysis and products to support investigations, operations, and key decision makers.
• Perform analysis of financial data from formal banking system, financial reports, and informal systems for moving money. The contractor shall assist with evaluating financial data to identify and analyze potential money and micro laundering indicative of espionage, insider threat, cyber finance and noted counterintelligence financial intelligence indicators.
• Analyze threat financial intelligence information to assess developments, trends, and threat implications. The contractor shall provide advice on techniques and innovative methods employed in threat analysis and projection.
Required qualifications/skills:
• Minimum education and years of experience requirements for the following:
o High School Diploma: 30 years of relevant experience with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.
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o Associates Degree: 24 years of relevant experience with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.
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o Bachelors Degree: 22 years of relevant experience with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years
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o Masters Degree or higher: 20 years of relevant experience with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years
• 5+ years of counterintelligence experience,
• 5+ years of all-source analytic experience, and
• 3+ years of Financial Intelligence experience.
• Must possess advance level in Microsoft Excel.
• Must possess or ability to obtain one of the following Financial Certifications: (Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), (ACAMS).
Come on board with a company that Values its Employees!
Celestar Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Celestar Corporation prohibits discrimination, harassment, and retaliation in employment based on race; color; religion; genetic information; national origin; sex (including same-sex); sexual orientation; gender identity; pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; age; disability or handicap; citizenship status; marital status; service member/protected veteran status; or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.