Business Support Advisor - HQ Operations
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Job Title: Business Support Advisor - HQ Operations
Salary: The starting salary is £38,926, which includes allowances totalling £2,928.
The salary is broken down as £35,998 basic salary, which will increase annually until you reach the top of the scale £38,523. Plus, a location allowance of £1,928 and a non-pensionable allowance of £1,000.
Location: Vauxhall
An opportunity has arisen for a permanent MO2 Business Support Advisor. This is a unique role within MO2 that will allow an individual to work directly with senior leaders to monitor and influence financial decisions to help the command deliver an effective service across policing. The successful candidate will assist in having oversight of an annual budget of over £100m and with the command going through a significant staff uplift this presents a particularly interesting time to support MO2’s finances.
Substantive Band D staff and those Band E on promotion are invited to consider the key responsibilities and essential criteria.
Key Responsibilities:
- Financial oversight of the budget envelope allocated to MO2
- Monitoring and reporting on expenditure of capital budgets and associated staffing costs, including overtime
- Monitoring of individual budgets to internal Heads of Unit; management of cost centre codes
- Financial forecasting and monitoring of reimbursements to budget envelope
- Financial oversight of project spends allocated through additional funding streams received from Home Office and MOPAC
- Engagement with MPS Strategic Finance Lead in support of budget monitoring and Quality Assurance of reporting
- Maintenance of internal financial records and systems in support of the responsibilities above
- Oversight of MO2 working time regulation compliance
- Additional business support functions as required by the DSU & DCI - HQ Functions, particularly those impacting command-wide on business effectiveness
- Engagement with MPS Commercial Lead to ensure budget alignment to contracts
- Presentation on expenditure / forecasts and budget management
Vetting
This post requires access to the most sensitive intelligence material on a daily basis. Applicants must hold or be prepared to undergo National Security Vetting (NSV) Security Check (enhanced) (SC(e)) level before taking up the post.
How to apply
To begin your career at the Met, please click the "apply now" button below. The application process requires a comprehensive CV and an online application form.
Completed applications must be submitted by 23:55 on 30th July 2025.
Once received, your application will be reviewed against eligibility criteria, following this, your application will be reviewed by the hiring manager. The application review for this vacancy will commence 1 week after the closing date.
Following application review, successful candidates will be invited to interview. Interview dates will commence 1 week after the hiring managers review.
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Essential Criteria
- Excellent IT and administrative skills
- A proven track record of capturing, managing, and reporting on large and complex financial datasets
- Proven ability to assimilate large quantities of financial and associated data, draw out trends and issues, and present them in a meaningful way
- An effective communicator with the ability to engage, influence and negotiate with managers and wider senior leadership team stakeholders
- A flexible, pragmatic approach in support of the strategic aims of the command
Desirable Criteria
- A professional qualification in a relevant field, e.g., business or finance, would be desirable though not essential
- We take ownership at level 2
- We analyse critically at level 2
- We collaborate at level 2
- Integrity
The Met is committed to being an equitable (fair and impartial) and inclusive employer for disabled people, striving to have a diverse and representative workforce at all levels. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible range of backgrounds, cultures and experiences. We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities and long-term conditions, ethnic minority groups and women.
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