Financial Intelligence Analyst

Booz Allen Hamilton; Vienna (VA); On-site; USD 62,000 - 141,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton in the United States (Virginia) seeks a Financial Intelligence Analyst to analyze data, identify illicit finance indicators, and develop actionable intelligence for regulators and policymakers.

Join a team focused on money laundering, sanctions, threat finance, and interagency collaboration, with opportunities to grow while operating under sensitive conditions.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience with data analytics or investigations in financial services.
• Experience analyzing illicit finance, sanctions compliance, or financial crimes.
• Experience with intelligence, law enforcement, and commercial financial databases.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate financial data to identify indicators of money laundering.
• Develop deep intelligence insights from diverse data sources and write assessments.
• Brief regulators and senior policymakers with timely, evidentiary analyses.

Skills

Data analytics

Illicit finance analysis

Intelligence databases

Team collaboration

Project management

Security clearance

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

Tools

Regulatory filings databases

Financial databases

Job description

Job Number: R0248275

Financial Intelligence Analyst

The Opportunity:

Critical decisions are made every single day in our government. What if you could use your skills to help them make informed decisions? With all the information available today, it takes a skilled analyst to know how to find and interpret the best data to give their clients the right answers. As a Financial Intelligence Analyst, you’ll use your specialized technical and functional experience and your attention to detail to develop insights, understanding, recommendations, and reports to give your client the actionable information and context they need. If you have strong analytical skills and a problem-solving mindset, we have an opportunity to use those skills to protect our national security and inform our nation's leaders.

The Opportunity:

Critical decisions are made every single day in our government. What if you could use your skills to help them make informed decisions? With all the information available today, it takes a skilled analyst to know how to find and interpret the best data to give their clients the right answers. As a Financial Intelligence Analyst, you’ll use your specialized technical and functional experience and your attention to detail to develop insights, understanding, recommendations, and reports to give your client the actionable information and context they need. If you have strong analytical skills and a problem-solving mindset, we have an opportunity to use those skills to protect our national security and inform our nation's leaders. As a Financial Intelligence Analyst on our team, you will leverage your understanding of international money laundering, threat finance, sanctions evasion, corruption and kleptocracy, and other illicit finance typologies to guide our clients’ investigations, analysis, enforcement efforts, or partnership engagements. You will evaluate financial data to identify and analyze indicators of money laundering activity. To develop deep financial intelligence insights, you will explore new data sources, build effective queries, and combine information from disparate sources, including intelligence reporting, open-source information, regulatory filings, financial transaction data, and blockchain transaction tracing. You will validate information to support evidentiary and analytical standards and write assessments for presentation to regulators and senior policymakers. As the authority in your area of expertise, your client will look to you for time-critical recommendations, often under pressure. This is a chance to grow your expertise, develop new skills in data analytics, research and analysis, and analytical writing, brief senior decision makers, share your methodologies with analysts and investigators, and work throughout the interagency environment to address illicit finance risks to the U.S. financial system. We focus on growing as a team to deliver the best support to our customers, so you will have resources for mentoring and learning new skills and tools. Join us as we provide the right information at the right time to support the critical needs of our nation’s leaders and policymakers.

Join us. The world can’t wait.

You Have:

• 2+ years of experience with data analytics, intelligence analysis, investigations, or financial services compliance
• Experience in analyzing and mitigating illicit finance, financial intelligence, sanctions compliance and enforcement, or financial crimes
• Experience analyzing people, activities, methods, or trends, including illicit activities, such as money laundering or financial crimes
• Experience with intelligence, law enforcement, and commercial financial databases
• Ability to work as a high-performing individual in a supportive team environment
• Ability to manage multiple simultaneous complex projects with minimal need for supervision
• Top Secret clearance
• Bachelor’s degree

Nice If You Have:

• Experience producing all-source, cybersecurity, or threat finance finished intelligence products
• Experience with sanctions or financial regulatory investigations, implementation, or policy
• Experience working in an interagency or federal law enforcement environment
• Experience with the financial services industry, including compliance, asset and wealth management, securities, or banking operations
• Experience with regulatory rulemaking procedures
• Ability to interpret a variety of financial data statements
• Master’s degree
• CAMS, CFCS, CPA, or CFE Certification

Clearance:

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; Top Secret clearance is required.

Compensation

At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page. Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $62,000.00 to $141,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.

Identity Statement

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.

Candidate AI Usage Policy

AI is a part of our daily work at Booz Allen, and we are committed to the responsible and ethical use of AI tools. However, we want to ensure a fair candidate process based on your own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or other tools to assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is prohibited unless permission is explicitly provided.

Work Model

Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of collaboration, whether it occurs in person or virtually. To support engagement and effective communication, employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings.

• Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
• Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen facility frequently, in alignment with leadership expectations and the needs of the role. You may also be required to work from or visit a customer facility.
• Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed at a Booz Allen office or customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.