Journeyman Operations Research Analyst, Virtual Currency

Operations Research Analyst, Virtual Currency

Location: Chantilly, VA

Clearance: Active TS/SCI

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.  

• Analyze 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. 
• Conduct thorough forensic financial analysis of business and personal records and developing financial profiles of individuals or groups identified as participating in suspicious or illegal activity. 
• Identify and trace funding sources and interrelated transactions. 
• Perform data visualization and/or link analysis relating to financial crime investigations with a cyber nexus. 
• Perform blockchain analytical work in support of multi-agency cyber, criminal, and national security matters and draft actionable reports on findings.  
• 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. 
• 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 other investigative actions and communicate those findings to the NCIJTF and its partners.
• Assist with outreach to industry, and academia by supporting briefings and conferences CMC attends or provides.
• Assist the Government in following and/or tracking Centralized Reporting, Coordination, and Deconfliction as it relates to Cyber and Cyber-Enabled Crime Investigations.
• Assist CMC in collaborating with representatives from other Government and intelligence organizations to share information or coordinate intelligence activities.
• Identify potential opportunities for investigations as well as strategic and tactical operations. 
• Validate known intelligence with data from other sources. 
• Create CMC analytical capabilities designed to feed the processes of other units within the NCIJTF. 
• Develop investigative guidance and best practices for cyber financial investigations. This includes the development of analytical methodologies, processes, and tradecraft for identifying cyber financial crimes. 
• Develop mitigation strategies, investigative techniques, and viable forensic methods regarding detection and/or discovery of deception and fraud related to cyber financial intrusions. 
• Compile draft findings and conclusions into financial investigative reports. 
• Conduct targeted research and draft reports on findings in the virtual asset space. 
• Create and deliver 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. 
• Provide support in the preparation of search warrants/affidavits associated with financial analysis. 
• Provide direct operational support in the virtual currency space through the tracing of value using open source, subscription based and internally developed tools and authoring and/or presenting on the tracing results. 
• Provide presentations and briefings concerning current cyber, criminal, and national security threats as they relate to financial, or virtual currency matters. 
• Study the assets of criminal suspects to determine the flow of money from or to targeted groups. 

Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher with concentration on: Finance, Intelligence, Investigative analytics, and Accounting
• Experience with virtual currency and blockchain technology, to include being proficient in the utilization of virtual currency analytical tools to support and develop investigations in which virtual currencies are being utilized. 

● Minimum of three years of dedicated experience in:

• • Tracing virtual currency transactions in cyber, criminal and national security investigations.
• • The analysis of transactions on blockchains associated with cyber, criminal and national security matters.
• • Utilizing blockchain analytical tools, to include Chainalysis, CipherTrace, Coinbase Tracer, Elliptic or TRM Labs.
• • Being certified or received training directly from the tool developer if certification is not offered, in at least one of the aforementioned blockchain analytical tools.

● Experience in reviewing and analyzing records provided by Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs) to identify investigative leads.

● Desired experience in planning/hosting virtual asset/virtual currency specific conferences.

● Experience in identifying and analyzing virtual asset transactions associated with peel chains, coin joins, chain hopping, asset swapping, Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and mixing platforms and services.

● Experience with in-depth knowledge of emerging payment systems, including digital, virtual, and cryptocurrencies.

● Experience in methodically writing up the tracing and analytical work conducted.

Preferred:

• Experience with virtual currency and blockchain technology, to include being proficient in the utilization of virtual currency analytical tools to support and develop investigations in which virtual currencies are being utilized. 

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Our package also includes:

· Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance

· Flexible Spending Accounts

· Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance

· Life Insurance

· Paid Time Off & Holidays

· Earned Bonuses & Awards

· Professional Training Reimbursement

· Paid Parking

· Employee Assistance Program

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