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Special Agent - Accounting/Finance Background
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice
Location
Salt Lake City, Utah
Salary
$99,461 - $128,329
per year
Type
Closes
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Job Description
Summary
This FBI Special Agent role focuses on using accounting and finance skills to investigate financial crimes, trace suspicious transactions, and support efforts against threats like terrorism and organized crime.
It involves planning investigations, collaborating with law enforcement, and being ready for fieldwork including arrests and using force when needed.
Ideal candidates are detail-oriented professionals with finance backgrounds who thrive in dynamic, high-stakes environments and stay physically fit.
Key Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or advanced degree with relevant work experience (2 years full-time with bachelor's, 1 year with master's/doctorate)
- Specialized experience in gathering and analyzing data to draw conclusions and make decisions
- Ability to solve problems, assess risks, and select optimal outcomes in complex situations
- Strong organizational skills for planning, prioritizing, and managing competing tasks
- Effective oral and written communication for reports, briefings, and information exchange
- Willingness to carry a firearm, use force if necessary, and maintain physical fitness for law enforcement duties
- Background in accounting or finance to identify criminal activity and trace assets
Full Job Description
FBI Special Agents apply their professional expertise and unique skill sets to their work every day.
Many come from professional backgrounds, such as finance and accounting, which helps ensure accountability, identify criminal activity, uncover hidden assets and connect the dots to trace transactions to their source.
Your diversified financial skills can significantly contribute to all areas of crime solving, from counterintelligence and cybersecurity to organized crime and terrorism.
All applicants must have two years of full-time work experience and a bachelor's degree or one year of full-time work experience if you have an advanced degree (master's or doctorate degree).All applicants should demonstrate Specialized Experience (SE).SE is defined as: Gathering and analyzing information and data to make proper conclusions or decisions.
Establishing solutions to problems, assessing vulnerabilities, considering risks, and choosing the best outcome. Organizing, planning, and prioritizing various and competing work assignments.
Consistently navigating complex and/or evolving environments. Communicating orally and in writing to prepare and present reports, briefings, and/or exchange information. Major Duties:
Plan and conduct investigations of potential violations of federal laws. Exercise judgement, resourcefulness, and versatility in meeting investigative demands.
Create and maintain effective liaison relationships with federal, state, local, tribal, territorial and international law enforcement agencies.
Coordinate and/or participate in searches, seizures, and arrests. Carry a firearm and be willing to use force, to include deadly force, if necessary.
Maintain a level of physical fitness to ensure readiness required to perform law enforcement duties.
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