Finance Lead

**Job Title: Finance Lead - MO11 Business Support**

**Salary: £64,170 to £70,690 plus a Location allowance of £1,721. You will receive £64,170 the band minimum. Progress to the band maximum of £70,690 will be via incremental progression.**

**Location: Victoria Embankment**

This is an exciting time to be working for the Metropolitan Police Service. In addition to large-scale transformation, there's the unique and ever-evolving challenge of policing London. This means that there are more opportunities for you to get involved with making London the safest global city in a time of unprecedented change within the UK's largest Police Service.

In MO11 we provide a range of services to the Met, including providing Fleet, Vehicle Recovery, Catering, Travel, Cultural Services, Uniform, ID Passes, Exhibit Management, Records Management and Local support to officers. Whilst these services are quite different in what they deliver, the desired outcomes of delighting our customers, improving performance, delivering innovative services that are value for money and supporting and developing our people are the same.

If you’re a motivated, forward-thinking, and determined finance expert, this could be the ideal role for you. As the Finance Lead, you’ll help us achieve impressive value for money. Continually striving to improve, you’ll offer expert insights, provide professional analytical support and highlight potential risks. To thrive in this role, you’ll need experience of advising and guiding business decisions and frameworks. If you’re CCAB-qualified, with solid knowledge of revenue, capital and horizon scanning, you could have what it takes. A post graduate qualification would be an advantage.

**Job Purpose**

To establish a strategic finance function that enables MO11 to track and manage its budgets and fulfil the following aspirations:

- We understand the current and planned projects across MO11 and can track spend and financial benefits of all change projects.
- We understand our risks and are mitigating them financially
- We understand our opportunities and we are running initiates to create funds that we can spend on new / required activities
- We can track spend on all suppliers and we understand the benefits we receive; we understand where we pay subsidies and have a strategy for rising prices and can offset risks with opportunities
- We are effectively using our revenue to fund service innovations that focus on improved customer service and improved customer and staff experiences
- We are adept at strategic financial planning and frequently test our budgets to meet possible policy changes e.g. reduction in staffing budget
- MO11 staff who carry out transactional finance tasks are supported with effective processes and provided with the right skills and knowledge to carry out the tasks
- We have a clear RASCI that is agreed between MO11 and Corporate Services and we understand how the two teams work together

**We view diversity as fundamental to our success. To tackle today’s complex policing challenges, we need a workforce made up from all of London’s communities. Applications from across the community are therefore essential.**

**As a Disability Confident Committed Employer the Met have committed to ensuring that disabled people and those with long-term health conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations.**

Essential For The Role, e.g. qualifications, licenses, languages, training
- Required: CCAB or equivalent membership
- Advantageous: Post graduate qualification e.g. MBA or equivalent

**Skills**

**Analytical and judgment skills**:

- To analyse diverse sets of information and draw out appropriate correlations between data sets in order to generate solutions to complex operational and strategic problems to appraise options across MPS.

**Planning and organisational skills**:

- Strong planning skills
- Able to formulate and implement long term strategic corporate plans.
- To plan and act strategically and corporately, with a creative approach to problem solving and delivery in demanding circumstances and with competing priorities.
- Highly motivated and proactive approach to working including a strong desire to meet deadlines and deliver quality work.

**Communication and relationship skills**:

- Effective communication skills. Ability to explain things clearly either verbally or in writing in the most appropriate style and tone.
- To influence senior stakeholders within a business, achieving an appropriate balance between customer care / responsive and delivery of professional advice
- Good interpersonal skills and team working skills with the willingness to support others and share ideas.
- Business focused and flexible when meeting operational needs and expectations.
- Takes responsibility to meet business requirements and ownership of work and maintains a strong work ethic.

**Experience**

Experience of advising and guiding busi