Financial Data Analyst Jobs in Washington, DC

The Opportunity

As data analyst, you love diving into data and turning it into meaningful insights. With the abundance of structured and unstructured data, you understand the importance of transforming complex data sets into useful information to solve challenges. As a data analyst at ThunderYard Solutions, you can use your skills and experience to support a mission and use data for good. We need a data analyst like you to bring your knowledge to inform policymakers of risks to the global financial system and economic security.

As a client-facing data analyst on our Financial Intelligence team, you’ll work closely with your clients to understand their questions and needs and then dig into their data-rich environments to find the pieces of their information puzzle. Not only will you provide a deep understanding of their data, but you’ll also advise your client on what the information means and how it can be used to make an impact on our national security policy and economic statecraft issues, contributing to high-profile intelligence analysis for key policy and decision-makers.

Key Responsibilities

· As a data analyst on our team, you’ll:

· Use your technical knowledge and analytical mindset to support client and stakeholder relationships.

· Research, develop, and test data methodologies, and generate cross-functional solutions through analysis, interpretation, and visualization of large data sets for intelligence analysis.

· Contribute to impactful work and guide decision-making across multiple organizations.

· Apply communication skills and data analytics experience by simplifying technical requirements and trends based on audience.

· Present data findings and recommendations to clients and stakeholders using your knowledge of databases, scripting languages such as SQL, Python, Jupyter, and Microsoft Office Suite.

· Establish quantitative and qualitative metrics to conduct large-scale financial or trade analysis in response to geopolitical developments.

· Apply data visualization through different formats such as graphs, tables, PowerPoint slides, or Tableau.

· Grow your communication and technical skills by creating data-centric solutions across intelligence community audiences.

Work with us to help drive large-scale business and process decisions through data insights.

Join us. The world can’t wait.

Required Qualifications

· Experience using open-source machine learning frameworks such as scikit-learn and tensor flow to answer business questions using proprietary data

· Experience with statistical analysis, correlating disparate data, and OpenSearch analytics engine

· Experience with probabilistic modeling or predictive modeling

· Experience with performing data analysis using scripting languages such as python, R, MATLAB, and Spark

· Experience implementing machine learning processes into production software applications

· Experience using big data tools to answer business questions with proprietary data

· Experience in building property graphs from multiple data sources to perform network analytics

· Ability to analyze large, unstructured, and noisy datasets and identify meaningful patterns that provide actionable results

· TS/SCI clearance

· Associate's degree and 6+ years of experience with data analysis, Bachelor's degree and 4+ years of experience with data analysis, or Master's degree and 2+ years of experience with data analysis

Preferred Qualifications

· Experience conducting data analysis in a cleared and intelligence community environment

· Experience with financial and trade data analysis

· Knowledge of Western Hemisphere regional security, crime, or financial issues

· Knowledge of formal and informal financial systems

· Knowledge of financial crime and unlawful financial activity typologies

· Ability to write finished intelligence products that conform to analytic tradecraft standards

· Financial Intelligence, Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), Certified Global Sanctions Specialist (CGSS), or Certified Financial Crimes Specialist (CFCS) Certification

Compensation

This role is budgeted at an annual salary of $140,000-$160,000, plus benefits including medical, dental, vision coverage, PTO, and partial 401(k) match

Vetting

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; TS/SCI clearance is required.

ThunderYard Solutions is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We don’t just accept difference – we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our community, and our customers. All applicants will be considered for employment without discrimination of race, color, religion, or belief, national, social, or ethnic origin, sex, age, physical, mental, or sensory disability, HIV status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union, or domestic partnership status, protected veteran status, family medical history or genetic information.

Pay: $140,000.00 - $160,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Application Question(s):

• Do you currently hold an active Top Secret/SCI clearance?

Work Location: In person