SMX Looking for Counter Threat Finance Intelligence Analyst Sme at Honolulu, HI, United States Full Time

Job Description

Our tradition of delivering innovative, technical solutions dates back to 1995, however, you may know us better by one of our legacy company names: Trident Technologies, Smartronix, Datastrong or C2S Consulting Group. With the support of OceanSound Partners, our private equity investment sponsor, we began operating as one business starting in 2019 and became SMX in 2021. We operate in close proximity to our clients around the globe and have core locations in Alabama, California, DC Metro, Florida, Hawaii, Maryland, and Massachusetts.

Today, as SMX, we are one team and together empower government and commercial enterprises to become more effective, innovative, and resilient, no matter what challenges they face.
SMX is seeking a Counter Threat Finance (CTF) Analyst to join our growing team in Honolulu, Hawaii. As a CTF, you will develop theater-wide CTF operations-intelligence products to support CTF activities; efforts shall include operationalizing Intelligence Community (IC) assessments, fusing intelligence and law enforcement information in compliance with legal constraints, identifying financial centers of gravity within terrorist and insurgent networks, developing critical vulnerability analysis on enemy financial centers of gravity, and recommending collection strategies to the IC to address intelligence gaps.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide support to the planning, organizing, and coordinating of CTF activities in respective CCMD AORs/AOIs, and in support of other DoD Components’ efforts to support law enforcement agencies
• Utilize knowledge of Counter Threat Finance programs, systems, missions, policies and regulations to ensure activities comply with legal and regulatory requirements and meets the customers’ operational needs
• Analyze and plan actions on or effects against financial support networks that are associated with and/or facilitating malign networks
• Develop processes to leverage U.S. government finance-related instruments of power
• Work with leaders in the interagency community, in domestic and foreign venues, to develop and implement interagency and international counter threat finance objectives
• Assist in drafting guidance and provide expertise on matters related to implementing DoD CD/CTOC/CTF policy and DoD efforts to support law enforcement agencies’ CD/CTOC/CTF/CT-related programs
• Research, interpret, and apply working knowledge of relevant counter threat finance guidelines, policies, and regulations
• Advise and assist staff in the development of long-term counter threat campaign plans and other generic threat finance strategies
• Provide CTF/TFI analysis that contributes to DoD strategic, operational, and tactical support to law enforcement agencies
• Provide briefings to DoD Component leadership and provide analytical products to support DoD briefings to law enforcement agency personnel
• Assist in the development of TFI analysis-derived action plans, papers, reports, and target packages described below, as required:
• Provide narrative reports and/or briefing products that provide updates to OAAs describe lessons learned from OAAs and summarize ongoing OAAs or intelligence analysis support
• Provide target packages which are combinations of narrative and/or briefing products that may describe a specific target, the significance of the target to the network in which they operate, the target’s centers of gravity and vulnerabilities, the effect on the network if the target’s activities are disrupted, and community reporting on the target
• Provide analysis of highly complex strategic, policy, and program issues, and provide analysis to DoD components as part of DoD’s support to law enforcement agencies
• Analyze information disseminated by DoD Components or elements of the Intelligence Community, including Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI)

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Clearance Required: TS/SCI
• Must have CI or FS Polygraph
• Experience in counter-threat finance, human intelligence and signals reporting, criminal and regulatory investigations, cases for designation, and experience with Bank Secrecy Act reporting mechanisms such as Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR)
• Be competent in utilizing Specialized Intelligence Analysis tools like KaChing, DataXplorer, and Voltron Suite)
• Be competent in utilizing Intelligence Report Aggregators/Automated Message Handling System search tools (i.e., TAC, RMT, and NGT, Horizon)
• Be competent in utilizing Intelligence Data Visualization Tools (i.e.Google Earth, Palantir, and, Analyst Notebook, Target Cop)
• Be proficient in utilizing existing and new analytical tools to effectively exploit raw financial data, business registry, and corporate company data
• Be knowledgeable of interagency threat finance cells
• Be skilled at implementing and utilizing best practices, proper tradecraft and determining relevancy of information disseminated against the standards set forth by the USG
• Understand interagency restrictions and sensitivities on sharing certain types of data, as well as the steps necessary amongst the interagency to share said data
• Understand relevant DoD intelligence and intelligence oversight policies, procedures, and requirements
• Expert level of skill in working with U.S Government Departments and Agencies (other than DoD) in areas such as policy formulation, acquisition, finance, drug law enforcement, security, policy formulation, and at disrupting and degrading the national security threats posed by drug trafficking, piracy, transnational organized crime, and threat finance networks reasonably related to illicit drug trafficking activities

Required Education & Experience

• MA/MS or BA/BS AND 6 years CURRENT relevant experience or Associates degree or HS Diploma AND 8 years of CURRENT relevant experience
• Experience with finance-specific analytical experience dealing with identifying / detecting, targeting, and interdicting threat, terrorist, and/or criminal finance activities, and networks

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience with Human intelligence and signals reporting, criminal and regulatory investigations, cases for designation and experience with Banking Secrecy Act reporting mechanisms such as Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR)
• Certified Anti Money Launderer (CAMS) or Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE)

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SMX is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability status, protected veteran status, race, color, age, religion, national origin, citizenship, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy or genetic information. Selected applicant will be subject to a background investigation. SMX is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.

Vaccination within 60-days of hire, or an approved accommodation, is a requirement of the position per Executive Order 14042 (unless precluded by State law). If a candidate is not vaccinated, they may request an accommodation once offered the position, and the accommodation must be granted prior to the employee starting in the position. Candidate will have 60 days to get vaccinated.