Staff Operations Officer Jobs

Description

Leidos, Inc. is seeking a Staff Operations Officer to support a financial intelligence mission in Northern VA. These positions require candidates to possess a current and active security clearance with appropriate polygraph to be considered. Successful candidates will work in team environment and will be capable of operating independently with minimal supervision. Candidates will be expected to effectively interact with customer personnel at all levels within the customer organization.

The primary function of a Staff Operations Officer is to support operational elements by providing operational research and analysis in furtherance of the client’s objective to acquire intelligence. Officers will utilize customer-specific databases to conduct multiple layers of research and write summaries, reports, official correspondence, and guidance. Officers will also be expected to provide thorough and knowledgeable briefings on the analysis to customer management. Daily activities include:

• Develop relationships with various operational components to meet the client’s requirements.
• Coordinate legal and policy issues affecting cases and overseas offices
• Design particular classified activities, propose recommendations, and identify the pros/cons of possible operational scenarios
• Provide a limited amount of administrative assistance in support of field elements and personnel.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for an overseas office and/or a volume of ongoing cases
• Manage a full range of operational and support activities for overseas missions
• Provide briefings on cases to senior customer officials, identifying potential issues on cases
• Provide in-depth research on existing cases, and intelligence assessments using all-source and classified information
• Provide operational guidance for ongoing cases, ensuring any CI issues are identified to protect the client’s personnel and facilities

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Strong written and oral communication, organization, and interpersonal skills
• Experience with conducting research on specified topics, determining conclusions, and presenting the results in a logical and concise manner.
• Must possess a current TS/SCI with polygraph
• Understanding of global finance; specifically, financial institution, international money transfers, and treat finance
• Ability to pose creative solutions to operational challenges
• Ability to plan and organize tasks independently
• Ability to exercise sound operational judgment
• Experience conducting a full range of case management or desk responsibilities including providing guidance, performing reviews, writing talking points, etc.
• Must possess 8 to 12 years of relevant experience
• Experience using the customer messaging systems
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Management, Banking, Finance, FINTECH, Economics, or related field, Master’s degree preferred with at least 4 years of relevant experience

Preferred Skills and Qualifications

• Experience/knowledge of Treasury organization and structures such as OFAC and FINSEN and the ability to translate Treasury requirements into collection opportunities and designation activities.
• One year experience providing training or giving presentations on financial or information exploitation topics.
• Foreign Language experience in languages of interest to national security
• One year target exploitation experience with knowledge of customer specific tools and databases.
• Skills using software and technologies to view and manipulate financial data (MS Excel including pivot tables, MS Access, SQL).
• Customer certification as a Staff Operations Officer is desired.
• Experience supporting US military forces, particularly counter threat finance, counter terrorism, Counter narcotics, Counter proliferation.
• Prior overseas experience.
• Possess an ACAMS (Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist) certification or comparable private sector certification.
• Knowledge of current and anticipated banking anti-money laundering regulations and practices
• Experience with mobile money, digital currencies, and emerging technology/services in financial industry.
• Forensic, Investigative, and/or Discovery industry related experience

Pay Range:

Pay Range $84,500.00 - $130,000.00 - $175,500.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.