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SME Threat Finance Analytic Cell (Threat Finance Analyst)

Prescient Edge

Fort George G Meade, MD • On-site

$110K - $160K/yr

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Retirement

Re-posted 22 days ago

Job description

Job Title
SME Threat Finance Analytic Cell (Threat Finance Analyst)
Location
Fort Meade, MD 20755 US (Primary)
Category
Intelligence
Job Type
Full-Time
Career Level
Staff
Education
High School / GED
Travel
Security Clearance Required
TS/SCI with CI Polygraph
Job Description
Prescient Edge is seeking a SME Threat Finance Analytic Cell (Threat Finance Analyst)to support a Federal Government client.
Benefits & Compensation:
At Prescient Edge, we believe that acting with integrity and serving our employees is the key to everyone's success. To that end, we provide employees with a best-in-class benefits package that includes:
  • A competitive salary with performance bonus opportunities.
  • Comprehensive healthcare benefits, including medical, vision, dental, and orthodontia coverage.
  • A substantial retirement plan with no vesting schedule.
  • Career development opportunities, including on-the-job training, tuition reimbursement, and networking.
  • A positive work environment where employees are respected, supported, and engaged.
  • Salary range: $110,000 - $160,000. Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills and the abilities of the applicant internal equity, and alignment with market data.

Descriptions:
  • 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.
  • Shall conduct research, threat financial analysis, and financial forensics examination of counterintelligence, counter-terrorism, force protection, and information operations of foreign military forces, and its 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.
  • Shall 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.
  • Shall extract and fuse transactional data from all sources to provide value-added analysis and products to support investigations, operations, and key decision makers.
  • Shall perform analysis of financial data from formal banking system, financial reports, and informal systems for moving money.
  • 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.
  • Shall analyze threat financial intelligence information to assess developments, trends, and threat implications.
  • Shall provide advice on techniques and innovative methods employed in threat analysis and projection.

Job Requirements
Required Experience:
  • 5+ years of counterintelligence experience, 5+ years of all-source analytic experience, and 3+ years of Financial Intelligence experience.
  • Must possess advanced level in Microsoft Excel.
  • Must possess or ability to obtain one of the following Financial Certifications: (Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), (ACAMS).

Required Education:
  • High School Diploma- 30 years of relevant experience with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.
  • Associate's degree- 24 years of relevant experience with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.
  • Bachelor's Degree- 22 years of relevant experience with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.
  • Master's Degree- 20 years of relevant experience with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.

Security Clearance:
  • Security clearance required TS/SCI with CI POLY or the ability to obtain CI POLY.

Location:
  • Fort Meade, MD.

Prescient Edge is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) founded as a counterintelligence (CI) and Human Intelligence (HUMINT) company in 2008. We are a global operations and solutions integrator delivering full-spectrum intelligence analysis support, training, security, and RD&E support solutions to the Department of Defense and throughout the intelligence community. Prescient Edge is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO). All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic that is protected by law. We strive to foster equity and inclusion throughout our organization because we believe that diversity of thought is critical for creating a safe and engaging work environment while also enabling the organization's success.
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About Prescient Edge

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Prescient Edge is a prominent name in the global security industry, based out of McLean, VA, US. Established with the primary mission of harnessing science and technology for safety and security purposes, the company specializes in providing a wide range of products and services. This includes research and development, consulting, global operations support, intelligence evaluation, and advanced data solutions. These offerings make Prescient Edge an integral factor in national defense and commercial innovations.

Industry

Guided missile and space vehicle manufacturing

Company size

51 - 200 Employees

Headquarters location

McLean, VA, US

Year founded

2008

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