Job Description

Amentum is a premier global services partner supporting critical programs of national significance across defense, security, intelligence, energy, and environment. Amentum draws from a century-old heritage of operational excellence, mission focus, and successful execution underpinned by a strong culture of safety and ethics. Headquartered in Chantilly, VA., Amentum employs more than 50,000 people on all seven continents.

Amentum is supporting the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in providing specialized training, advisory and mentoring services to host nations under the Criminal Division’s International Criminal Investigative Training and Assistance Program (ICITAP).    

ICITAP is a cornerstone of America’s global strategy for combating transnational crime, terrorism, countering trafficking in persons, establishing rule of law and enhancing human rights in developing countries.  Amentum is the contract service provider to the DOJ ICITAP and Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training (OPDAT) programs. 

Please Note: This is an Independent Contractor position with Amentum, it should not be considered an employment relationship with Amentum.

POSITION SUMMARY:

Amentum is currently seeking a qualified candidate(s) to serve as Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Cyprus, Thailand and third location TBD . This position will be responsible for researching and developing case studies using open-source information to understand regional banks’ exposure to trade sanctions circumvention. The SME is also expected to conduct expert technical exchanges and seminars.

JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Generate detailed, granular circumvention typologies from open-source case-studies in formats usable by banks’ transaction screening systems. These typologies/case studies will be generated by open-source desk research and validated through consultation with U.S Government (USG) and foreign partners. The case studies will be specific to trade sanctions circumvention via Southeast Asian and East Asian shell companies, banks and payment mechanisms.

• Provide practical due-diligence skills and data to regulators, enforcement agencies and the financial sector to implement and enforce international trade sanctions. This objective will have two focuses:

• Using publicly available trade and procurement contract data to identify clients and transactions linked to sanctioned or risky military procurement.

• Leveraging existing Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFL) standards to help identify entities in sanctioned strategic trade supply chains and stop quasi-anonymous payment mechanisms increasingly used in trade sanctions circumvention.

• Promote information-exchange between financial institutions and enforcement agencies, including improving the quality and quantity of trade-sanctions related Suspicious Activity Report (SARs) to Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO).

REQUIRED SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS:

• Strong knowledge of AML/CFL in Southeast/East Asia and Europe.

• Ability to develop case study materials, presentations and table-top exercise design, and training module planning.

• Ability to observe, analyze and provide assessments of capabilities and to design and develop concrete project proposals to address identified gaps.

• Excellent organizational and project management skills.

• Experience working with U.S. Government (USG) Agencies.

• Ability to work with a wide variety of stakeholders and to leverage those relationships to achieve desired outcomes.

• Ability to work independently and remotely.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Clearable: Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust Waiver US Government Clearance. Note: US Citizenship is required to obtain a Public Trust Waiver Clearance.

• Clearable: NON US Citizen candidates for this position will not need to be clearable as Third Country Nationals.

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