Lead Financial Analyst

Firebird AST is seeking an onsite Lead Financial Analyst with an active Top Secret/SCI clearance to support the FBI in McClean, VA. The contract is pending; anticipated award is April 2025.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Act as lead for contractor team.
• Apply expertise on complex work assignments.
• Apply knowledge about anti-money laundering AML and bank secrecy laws and regulations to include exploitation of banking record returns and Bank Security Act Documents.
• Apply knowledge and experience in FININT operations and tradecraft.
• Utilize public/open-source databases such as Dunn and Bradstreet, Accurint, Lexis Nexis, and Clear and commercially available Sayari tool to mapping out corporate networks, ownership, and common addresses.
• Research and analyze open source and social media exploitation to include being current on social media platforms and the changes in digital landscape.
• Trace and analyze Cryptocurrency and utilization of chain analysis reactor and other tracing tools
• Research international and domestic law enforcement interdictions and disruptions of illicit financial facilitators, including weapons trafficking and bulk cash smuggling.

REQUIRED

• Must have active TS/SCI clearance; clearance shall not be within 6-months of expiration at the time of resume submission.
• Accounting background and anti-money laundering certification.
• Experience developing and writing actionable intelligence leads and/or classified intelligence products for the USIC in accordance with ODNI tradecraft standards.
• Experience in using a wide variety of analytical techniques used to determine and communicate trends and patterns, fill gaps in information and project events, identify anomalies, ascribe meaning to events or information from disparate sources, and develop defensible judgements and conclusions based on accepted research and analytical methodologies.
• Knowledge and experience in the intelligence and investigative programs’ operations, procedures, techniques, and terminology the entire IC; the proper development and presentation of information; and the proper fulfillment of related information needs and responsibilities.
• Knowledge of IC resources and experience in acquiring information from intelligence sources to ensure that the information developed is complete, and, where possible, corroborated for accuracy.
• Experience in oral and written communication, providing information, expert advice, and guidance; persuade others to consider recommendations made/argue a position; and abstract concepts and facts clearly and effectively to share with various entities of the IC.
• All Contractor employees shall have experience in at least three (3) of the following areas:
• Providing targeting analysis and/or writing targeting packages.
• Source identification and development, source validation, strategic analysis, tactical analysis, and intelligence collection management.
• Geospatial intelligence experience; and/or one year of experience in intelligence within the last five (5) years.
• Financial analyst or finance background (forensic accountant, auditor, domestic and international payment systems public and private sector financial transfer systems and/or financial data exploitation).
• Knowledge about anti-money laundering AML and bank secrecy laws and regulations to include exploitation of banking record returns and Bank Security Act Documents.
• Minimum of three (3) years working in FININT operations and tradecraft.
• Minimum of three (3) years' experience with public/open-source databases such as Dunn and Bradstreet, Accurint, Lexis Nexis, and Clear and commercially available Sayari tool to mapping out corporate networks, ownership, and common addresses.
• Minimum of three (3) years in the research and analysis of open source and social media exploitation to include being current on social media platforms and the changes in digital landscape.
• Minimum of three (3) years' experience in Cryptocurrency tracing and analysis and utilization of chain analysis reactor and other tracing tools.
• Minimum of three (3) years' experience in international and domestic law enforcement interdictions and disruptions of illicit financial facilitators, including weapons trafficking and bulk cash smuggling.

EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s Degree in any field of study

CLEARANCE

• Active DoD Top Secret/SCI

About Firebird AST:

Firebird AST is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) based in Northern Virginia and a market-recognized leader within the IC, Department of Defense, Homeland Security, and Law Enforcement. We maintain a corporate culture deeply rooted in the US Military core values that gave us our start - honor, integrity, commitment, and selfless service. For this reason, our customers' needs and missions always comes first. We seek hard working, highly experienced, extremely motivated, professionally proven subject matter experts, trainers, leaders, innovators, and technical experts to serve on our team. Firebird AST has a firm understanding that our employees are our greatest asset and that, accordingly, they are to be provided the greatest level of respect and care possible.

Firebird AST is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.