Threat Finance SME

This position requires an active TS/Sensitive Compartmental Information (SCI) clearance.

A government contract requires that this position be restricted to U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents.You must provide documentation that you are a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident to qualify.

Cherokee Insights is seeking a Threat Finance SME to support our USSOCOM program. 

Compensation & Benefits:

Pay commensurate with experience.

Full time benefits include Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, and other possible benefits as provided.  Benefits are subject to change with or without notice.

Threat Finance SME Responsibilities Include: 

• Identify, retrieve, evaluate, interpret, and analyze a myriad of finished and unfinished classified and unclassified data sources, including publicly available information, to create fused analytical products that will enhance situational awareness in support of mission objectives, priorities, or exigent operational needs.
• Perform in depth target threat finance analysis of available information utilizing tool sets to reveal entities of interest, determine lifestyle patterns and provide detailed background information for networks of interest.
• Develop and maintain close, collaborative relationships with internal and external  intelligence partners and may serve as a liaison to Department of State, Department of Commerce, Department of Treasury and other related entities on matters related to terrorist threat finance. 
• Assist in intelligence product development and provide input to routine reporting requirements (e.g. SITREPs, annual reports, etc.).
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Threat Finance SME Experience, Education, Skills, Abilities requested: 

• Active TS/SCI Security clearance
• MBA or MS in Finance, Accounting, or Economics or related field. BA/BS considered with multiple years of directly related experience.
• Minimum seven (7) years' experience working for or with Department of State, Department of Commerce, Department of Treasury, FBI, or other federal agency on matters related to terrorist threat finance.
• Minimum seven (7) years' experience demonstrating knowledge of commercial, trade-finance, asset-based lending, loan documentation, financial statements, and cash flow analysis.
• Minimum five (5) years' experience demonstrating knowledge of federal and state banking regulations and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) focused activities.
• Demonstrated understanding of Anti-money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) and sanctions compliance requirements pertaining to commodities transactions and shipping (vessels and port screening).
• Proficiency in the use and exploitation of all available technologies to enhance all-source analysis.
• Knowledge of institutional banking/brokerage products and services.
• Experience with commercial bank operations and fraud prevention/investigations federal and state banking regulations with extensive knowledge of basic banking transaction methods such as check, automated clearing house (ACH), wire, and other payment channel operating rules.
• Experience that demonstrates an understanding of latest loan fraud threats/trends.
• Previous experience and the ability to demonstrate proficiency conducting statistical modeling and analysis.
• Working understanding of CT, IC agencies, DoD entities, JSOTF, their mission sets and relationships to regional, political/military, and socio-cultural issues, as well as the associated implications for policy and decision making.
• Understanding of data structures and standards (e.g., Lists, Arrays, Stack, or Sorting and Searching), to assist in data model development necessary to support a cohesive data environment that is searchable across multiple data sets, and have the ability to evaluate new or unfamiliar datasets, for potential applicability to mission requirements, and integrate them into an analytic workflow.
• Proficiency and experience with applied data processing and scientific analysis of large datasets and machine learning.
• Certified Fraud Examiner, AML Certification, or other related designation
• Experience conducting Fraud Prevention/Investigations
• Experience with serialized intelligence product reporting, to include editing and coordination
• Familiar with the use of managed attribution systems
• Must pass pre-employment qualifications of Cherokee Federal

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Keywords:

• Certified Fraud Examiner

• AML

• CFT