Senior Principal Intelligence Specialist, Financial Crimes Intelligence, Strategic Intelligence

Strategic Intelligence is a team within FINRA’s Risk & Intelligence organization that provides strategic and tactical intelligence impacting member firms, investors, and the financial markets, translating into better, more informed, and timely regulatory decisions. The Strategic Intelligence team supports FINRA’s Regulatory Programs by identifying, analyzing, and assessing emerging risks and trends, and generating insights through finished intelligence products. The Senior Principal Intelligence Specialist will have extensive knowledge of and expertise in intelligence disciplines and is expected to utilize an expanded skillset related to the mission of Strategic Intelligence including, but not limited to, the collection, analysis, processing, and dissemination of intelligence.

This position will require building and maintaining effective relationships internally with subject matter experts across FINRA’s regulatory programs and externally with member firms, law enforcement, and other government intelligence partners in support of both Strategic Intelligence and FINRA’s missions.

The Financial Crimes Intelligence (FCI) team is a specialized function within Strategic Intelligence focused on advancing FINRA’s understanding of emerging risks and threats related to financial crimes impacting member firms, investors, and the financial markets.

The Senior Principal Intelligence Specialist executes functions in support of the Strategic Intelligence mission including the following:

Serve as a partner to internal stakeholders, working with subject matter experts across departments to identify emerging threats and drive intelligence-driven initiatives. Proactively and independently identify, analyze, and predict emerging risks, threats, regulatory trends, and critical events impacting member firms, investors, and the financial markets. Contribute to the development of strategies around mitigating risks and threats.

Independently establish and maintain partnerships and networks with internal and external stakeholders to understand intelligence priorities.

Independently develop and maintain intelligence frameworks, collection strategies, and standards to ensure timely delivery of actionable intelligence to appropriate stakeholders across the enterprise and externally.

Independently develop intelligence products, assessments, briefings, and communications that translate complex intelligence into actionable insights for senior leadership, regulatory staff, and external stakeholders.

Independently identify and help implement ongoing and significant improvements to intelligence processes, frameworks, and programs to enhance the effectiveness of Strategic Intelligence's mission.

Conduct tasks related to member firm/investor intelligence sharing, which include, but are not limited to, participating in conference panels, working groups, and round tables.

Conduct tasks related to FINRA staff training and intelligence sharing that may include, but are not limited to, training events, podcasts, workshops, or live webinars.

Demonstrate FINRA’s values.

Collaborate, both in-person and virtually, in furtherance of FINRA’s mission of investor protection and market integrity.

Education/Experience Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree and minimum of eight (8) years of experience, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience required; advanced degree in intelligence studies, public policy, business, or law preferred.

Previous experience working at a broker-dealer or other type of financial institution or at a government agency or department with a focus on intelligence preferred.

Proven knowledge and advanced expertise performing advanced and high-complexity intelligence functions representing the full intelligence…