Threat Finance Analyst

at  Firebird AST

Firebird AST is seeking an onsite Threat Finance Analyst with an active Top Secret clearance and with the ability to obtain a Counterintelligence polygraph to provide regular finished intelligence products on foreign financial activities to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in Washington, D.C. The contract is pending; anticipated award is July 2024.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ATTRIBUTES

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret technical journals, reports, policy, legal documents, etc.
• Ability to prepare reports and presentations to company management and customer(s)
• Demonstrated leadership ability, strategic and innovative thinker, and passion for the mission.
• Ability to identify and solve problems.
• Excellent organization and time management skills.

EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred but will consider years of experience.

• Conduct all-source forensic accounting analysis and production, by fusing financial / transactional data from formal banking systems, financial reports, and other forms of reporting as a layer of analysis.
• Analyze 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.
• Aggregate and fuse multi-modal transactional data and identity.
• Map and perform analysis of financial data from formal banking systems, financial reports, and informal transfer means.
• Prepare and integrate 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.
• Payment relationships, revenue-generation, and money-laundering methods.
• Apply statistical techniques including flows analysis, visualization, and geospatial analysis tools to bulk and raw transactional data.
• Apply pattern analysis to large data sets related to large data sets.
• Apply intelligence collection requirements, essential elements of information, priority intelligence requirements, and search terms to DOMEX triage processes.
• Apply data engineering to interface with structured data and data forensics tools.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned
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