Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Leading Niche is seeking a Senior Investigative Analyst to support PRAC’s Advanced Analytic & Investigative Support Services program. The role involves conducting investigative analysis, identifying fraud patterns, and developing leads for government benefit fraud and financial crimes.
Responsibilities
- Conduct investigative analysis supporting fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement detection across large-scale federal benefit programs
- Analyze suspicious activity involving government benefit fraud, financial crimes, identity fraud, eligibility fraud, organized fraud rings, and related schemes
- Develop investigative leads using public, non-public, law enforcement, commercial, and third-party data sources
- Review analytic model outputs and fraud detection results to validate potential leads and determine investigative relevance
- Identify fraud indicators, behavioral patterns, entity relationships, and anomalies requiring further review
- Analyze structured datasets to identify fraud patterns, high-risk entities, suspicious transactions, and cross-program indicators
- Analyze unstructured data, including documents, narratives, notes, reports, and other text-based sources, to identify investigative leads and relevant intelligence
- Compare information across multiple data sources to identify inconsistencies, shared attributes, hidden relationships, and suspicious patterns
- Support cross-program and cross-agency analysis involving federal benefit programs and covered funds
- Apply knowledge of government benefit fraud typologies to support investigative and analytic work
- Identify indicators related to: Identity fraud, Synthetic identity fraud, Eligibility fraud, Organized fraud rings, Shell entities, False statements, Suspicious addresses, phone numbers, emails, IP addresses, or business relationships, Cross-program or cross-agency fraud schemes
- Assist in developing, validating, and documenting fraud risk indicators for investigative and analytic use
- Use Neo4j, i2 Analyst’s Notebook, or comparable link analysis platforms to identify relationships among people, businesses, addresses, accounts, applications, transactions, and other entities
- Develop link analysis charts, relationship diagrams, network visualizations, and entity maps
- Work with graph data scientists to interpret graph analytics outputs and translate network patterns into investigative findings
- Support identification of hidden relationships, organized networks, shared attributes, and non-obvious connections across datasets
- Prepare investigative reports, referral packages, case summaries, lead packages, and intelligence products suitable for review by federal oversight and law enforcement partners
- Document investigative findings, methodologies, source data, assumptions, relationships, and supporting evidence
- Translate complex data analysis and investigative findings into clear, concise, and actionable written products
- Ensure work products are accurate, defensible, well-organized, and suitable for Government review
- Brief findings to PRAC stakeholders, OIG partners, federal law enforcement personnel, and senior government officials
- Present investigative findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Support meetings, case discussions, project reviews, and investigative briefings
- Communicate risks, gaps, investigative opportunities, and recommended next steps
- Work closely with data scientists, graph data scientists, data engineers, forensic accountants, and project leadership
- Collaborate with forensic accountants to interpret financial records, transaction patterns, and money movement
- Coordinate with data engineers to identify data gaps, improve source data usability, and support investigative requirements
- Support analytics teams by providing investigative context, fraud typology expertise, and case-building perspective
Skills
- Minimum three (3) years of professional experience conducting investigative analysis supporting government benefit fraud and financial crimes
- Minimum three (3) years of experience analyzing structured data to identify fraud indicators and patterns
- Minimum three (3) years of experience analyzing unstructured data to identify fraud indicators and patterns
- Experience using both public and non-public data sources
- Strong working knowledge of fraud typologies related to government benefit programs
- Proficiency with SQL
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel
- Proficiency with Neo4j
- Proficiency with i2 Analyst's Notebook or a comparable link analysis platform
- Minimum three (3) years of hands-on experience preparing investigative reports
- Minimum three (3) years of hands-on experience preparing referral packages suitable for law enforcement
- Minimum three (3) years of hands-on experience preparing case summaries suitable for law enforcement
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience briefing findings to senior government stakeholders
- Experience supporting PRAC, CIGIE, Offices of Inspector General, federal law enforcement, or federal oversight organizations
- Experience supporting investigations involving federal benefit programs, pandemic relief programs, emergency relief funds, or similar large-scale government assistance programs
- Experience with programs such as PPP, EIDL, RRF, SVOG, unemployment insurance, or comparable federal benefit programs
- Experience supporting fraud analytics, anomaly detection, entity resolution, graph analytics, or investigative intelligence workflows
- Experience developing lead packages, intelligence reports, link analysis diagrams, and visual case exhibits
- Familiarity with commercial investigative databases and open-source intelligence tools
- Experience working with law enforcement sensitive information and investigative workflows
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