Integral - Chantilly, VA
posted 3 months ago
The Operations Research Analyst, Virtual Currency supports the FBI Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force (CIJTF) Criminal Mission Center (CMC) to provide integrated cyber, financial, virtual asset/currency, and business analysis integrated with advanced analytics and data science to support national security, criminal, cyber and counterintelligence investigations, and operations. This role involves analyzing intelligence data to assist in the development of informational packages and actionable leads to cyber squads and the USIC for cyber, criminal, and national security operations. The analyst will conduct thorough forensic financial analysis of business and personal records, developing financial profiles of individuals or groups identified as participating in suspicious or illegal activity. The position requires identifying and tracing funding sources and interrelated transactions, performing data visualization and link analysis relating to financial crime investigations with a cyber nexus, and conducting blockchain analytical work in support of multi-agency cyber, criminal, and national security matters. The analyst will utilize a variety of commercial, open-source tools, and proprietary data sources to collect, review, and analyze data with a focus on virtual currency and cyber areas. They will assist with virtual currency and other related investigations by utilizing publicly available information, financial investigative tools, open-source databases, commercial databases, proprietary contractor tools and data, and Government sources of information to identify investigative leads and communicate those findings to the NCIJTF and its partners. The role also involves outreach to industry and academia by supporting briefings and conferences that CMC attends or provides. The analyst will assist the Government in following and tracking Centralized Reporting, Coordination, and Deconfliction as it relates to Cyber and Cyber-Enabled Crime Investigations, and collaborate with representatives from other Government and intelligence organizations to share information or coordinate intelligence activities. Additionally, the analyst will identify potential opportunities for investigations as well as strategic and tactical operations, validate known intelligence with data from other sources, and create CMC analytical capabilities designed to feed the processes of other units within the NCIJTF. They will develop investigative guidance and best practices for cyber financial investigations, including analytical methodologies, processes, and tradecraft for identifying cyber financial crimes. The analyst will also develop mitigation strategies, investigative techniques, and viable forensic methods regarding detection and/or discovery of deception and fraud related to cyber financial intrusions. They will compile draft findings and conclusions into financial investigative reports, conduct targeted research, and draft reports on findings in the virtual asset space. The role includes creating and delivering briefings to provide contextual analysis to U.S. Government agencies in support of the NCIJTF's whole-of-Government approach to campaigns, investigations, and operations, as well as providing support in the preparation of search warrants/affidavits associated with financial analysis. The analyst will provide direct operational support in the virtual currency space through tracing value using open source, subscription-based, and internally developed tools, and authoring and/or presenting on the tracing results. Finally, they will study the assets of criminal suspects to determine the flow of money from or to targeted groups.