SME Threat Finance Analytic Cell (Threat Finance Analyst)

Prescient Edge; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Performance bonus

Healthcare benefits

Retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

Career development

Networking

Positive work environment

Job summary

Prescient Edge seeks a SME Threat Finance Analyst to support a Federal Government client at Fort Meade, MD. The role focuses on financial intelligence within counterintelligence and all-source analyses, leveraging advanced Excel and certified financial methodologies.

The candidate will analyze terrorism-related financing, illicit networks, and operational funding, producing actionable threat intelligence products for investigations and decisions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years counterintelligence experience.
• 5+ years all-source analytic experience.
• 3+ years Financial Intelligence experience.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel proficiency.
• Financial Certifications: CFE or ACAMS.

Responsibilities

• Serve as Threat Finance Analyst and financial intelligence expert for investigations and operations.
• Conduct threat financial research, all-source analysis, and forensics across CI, CT, and cyber domains.
• Analyze financial data from formal and informal systems; identify money flows and networks.

Skills

Counterintelligence experience

All-source analytics

Financial Intelligence

Advanced Excel

Financial certifications

Education

High School Diploma

Associate’s Degree

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

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 - $150,000. Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills and the abilities of the applicant internal equity, and alignment with market data.

Responsibilities

• 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.

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.