Threat Finance Analyst

About the role

*Position is contingent upon contract award*

SOSi is seeking a Threat Finance Analyst. The Threat Finance Analyst acts as a crucial liaison between SOF organizations and external financial capability offices to oversee and enhance financial operational effectiveness. You will be responsible for supporting and tracking disbursing operations for Theater Special Operation Commands (TSOCs).

Leveraging your expertise in financial intelligence, you will perform deep analysis using open-source intelligence (OSINT) and advanced data analysis tools to identify anomalous or suspicious financial activities and transactions. This role includes the meticulous review, processing, and auditing of financial workbooks and documents to ensure absolute accuracy and compliance.

You will leverage your strong understanding of financial management principles to analyze complex data sets and develop actionable recommendations. Your efforts will directly contribute to the success of SOF operations by ensuring financial readiness and intelligence support.

Essential Job Duties

• Analyze specific foreign financial activities.
• Aggregate and fuse multi-modal transactional data and identity.
• Prepare and integrate financial data from all available sources.
• Understand payment relationships, revenue-generation, and money-laundering methods.
• Apply statistical techniques including flows analysis and visualization.
• Query, exploit, and analyze large, complex datasets from various sources, including Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) data, international wire transfers, cryptocurrency transactions, and commercial financial data.
• Identify anomalous or suspicious financial activities and transactions that indicate potential links to terrorism, proliferation, espionage, or other illicit activities.
• Utilize specialized financial intelligence tools and methodologies to process and triage vast amounts of information.
• Use financial data to identify and map the networks of threat actors, including key nodes, facilitators, front companies, and shell corporations.
• Conduct detailed "pattern of life" analysis on individuals or groups based on their financial footprint to understand their connections and activities.
• Perform link analysis to connect seemingly disparate individuals, entities, and transactions, reconstructing the financial architecture of a threat network.
• Collaborate with other intelligence disciplines (e.g., HUMINT, SIGINT) to fuse financial intelligence into a comprehensive, all-source picture of a threat.
• Brief senior leaders, law enforcement partners, and operational units on financial threats, vulnerabilities, and opportunities for disruption.
• Liaise with analysts at the Department of the Treasury, FinCEN, law enforcement agencies, and international partners to share information and coordinate on shared targets.

Minimum Requirements

• Active TS/SCI security clearance (Willing to submit for CI Poly).
• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, accounting, or other related field.
• 8 years of financial, accounting, or business experience to include financial support to special operations.
• Most recent 4 years of experience must have been within USSOCOM enterprise.
• Demonstrated knowledge of various USG funding mechanisms, programs, and associated fiscal policies.
• Skilled at analyzing financial documents, transaction records, and other data to identify patterns, networks, and vulnerabilities.
• Knowledgeable about various financing methods and the use of virtual currencies in conjunction with the global financial system.
• Broad familiarity with various analytical tools and databases to conduct data mining, social network analysis, and other structured analytic techniques.
• Demonstrates ability to communicate understanding from incomplete or complex information.
• Demonstrates ability to work independently with minimal oversight.

Additional Information: Working Conditions

• Normal office conditions.

Working at SOSi

All interested individuals will receive consideration and will not be discriminated against for any reason.