Attorney-Adviser (General)

Full Job Description

Become part of the team that safeguards the financial system from the abuses of financial crime.

At the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), we are at the forefront in preventing and detecting terrorist financing, money laundering, and other financial crime.

Serve at the nation's financial intelligence unit and protect the United States financial system from criminals and terrorist financiers.

You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement. The experience may have been gained in either the public, private sector or volunteer service.

One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prorated basis.

To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/day/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week on your résumé.

Applicants must: (1) be a graduate of an accredited law school with a LL.B., J.D.

or equivalent; (2) be an active member in good standing of the bar in a state or territory of the United States or the District of Columbia; and (3) have at least 12 months of pertinent legal experience, which may include, for example, the private practice of law, practice in a government legal office, or a judicial clerkship.

For the GS-15, you must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-14 grade level in the Federal service.

Specialized experience for this position includes experience in the following areas of responsibility: anti-money laundering; countering the financing of terrorism; economic sanctions; illicit finance; administrative law; corporate or contract law; ethics; intelligence law; international law; national security law; civil or criminal litigation; general law; or matters of similar scope and complexity.

Major Duties:

This position is located in our Office of Chief Counsel.

As an Attorney-Adviser (General), you will: Completes highly sensitive assignments including providing legal support to the Treasury and FinCEN national security and law enforcement mission involving Top Secret/SCI information and/or materials.

Advises senior Treasury leadership, including the Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, the General Counsel, and the Deputy General Counsel(s), regarding matters involving FinCEN authorities and/or mission involving materials or information classified at the Top Secret/SCI level.

Reviews and evaluates FinCEN administrative actions involving material or information classified at the Top Secret/SCI level, and coordinates with the Department of Justice in connection with any litigation or other legal proceedings involving such matters.

Coordinates with FinCEN partners to include the federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, members of the Intelligence Community, the White House and National Security Council and others regarding FinCEN authorities and FinCEN actions.

Conducts legal research and provides legal and practical conclusions in the form of oral advice, briefings, presentations, and legal decision memoranda on extremely complex and difficult factual, legal, and policy issues.

Analyzes, interprets, and applies statutes, regulations, court decisions, FinCEN policies, and technical publications involving many fields of law including: the Bank Secrecy Act; the detection and prevention of money laundering; countering the financing of terrorism; financial intelligence; financial criminal activity; national security law; contracts; appropriations and fiscal law; ethics; conflicts of law; Federal preemption of State law; Freedom of Information and Privacy Acts; the Federal Tort Claims Act; the Administrative Procedure Act; administrative law; personnel, labor relations and equal employment opportunity (EEO); procurement; and constitutional law.

These opinions are likely to be the primary document where review at higher levels of FinCEN and the Department occurs.

Prepares and reviews proposed legislation, regulations, and policy issuances to ensure they conform to the substantive laws that they are intended to implement or interpret.

Stays abreast of legislative and regulatory developments in Congress and other Federal agencies.

Coordinates and disseminates information received from the Treasury Department and other sources so that relevant or affected FinCEN policies and precedents are identified, and, when necessary, harmonized with those of the Treasury Department.