Job Title: Finance Support, Fleet Services

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: Marlowe House (Occasional travel to other Fleet Services premises)

About Fleet Services

The police vehicle fleet is an important physical asset. It enables officers and staff to do their job, carries key equipment required, and provides safe transportation for the public / prisoners.

The role of Fleet Services is to keep the Met mobile, ensuring we can detect, respond to, and prevent crime whilst building public trust and confidence. Fleet Services are committed to leading with innovation, responsibility and environmental consciousness, striving for a fleet that is safer, smarter and cleaner, with a focused approach as follows:

1 - We will manage responsibly to deliver an excellent service and achieve value for money

2 - We will deliver strategies to manage the fleet efficiently and effectively

3 - We will deliver a fit-for-purpose, flexible and available fleet

The complex needs of modern policing requires a wide range of vehicle types. We operate a fleet of over 5,200 assets on the road and river, as well as over 1,000 pedal cycles. London is the most complex and diverse city in the UK, and our fleet is reflective of that. We currently have over 220 different types of vehicles supporting all operational commands including armed response vehicles, HGVs, patrol cars, motorbikes and pedal cycles.

Customers can be broadly grouped into three strategic pillars – Frontline Policing, Met Ops & Performance, and Counter Terrorism / Specialist Operations. Collectively this covers pan London requirements as well as national CT responsibilities.

The overall fleet requirements and volumes are owned and governed by operational leaders at the Strategic Fleet Board. Operational teams are accountable for the volume of fleet required to undertake their roles, and Fleet Services support and enable effective decision making through provision of information and technical / industry knowledge.

Key responsibilities

• Governance meetings – Support governance meetings through review of financial reports and drafting responses to anything highlighted by MPS Finance
• Business Cases / BJPs – Support development of financial models / financial cases for Business Cases / BJPs including the methodology used.
• 20 year capital plan / 5 year capital plan – Support development and maintenance of financial models that show the 20 year / 5 year capital forecasts, including the methodology used, working with the Asset Management team.
• Capital / Revenue budget delegation – Propose Capital / Revenue budget delegation / split out between teams in Fleet
• In year Capital / Revenue spend – Track spend against budgets, investigating where spend is being incurred and if this is in line with expected budgets. Support development of assumptions / principles for forecasts. Prepare for and conduct reviews at workshop level to ensure that spend is in line with expectations and correctly recorded
• Revenue budget setting – Help to develop initial view of budget for the next financial year using review of current and previous years spend
• Improvements – Through reviews and investigation of spend, identify areas of improvement that could be implemented across Fleet.
• Re-charge model – Support development and maintenance of the re-charge model for repair/maintenance services, including any assumptions and any data used in its production. Review the model with MPS Finance regularly, and work with Finance on ensuring re-charging amounts for business units are processed effectively
• Raising requisitions – Ensure requisitions are raised on the MPS system effectively, either by Finance resources or by Fleet teams. Ensure the Purchase Orders set up are correct and ensure suppliers have these details
• Payment of suppliers – Ensure suppliers are being paid promptly; review data to see where supplier invoices have been outstanding for long periods. Where required, support teams to review invoices from suppliers and goods receipt on the MPS system.
• Master system data – maintain master systems data such as financial approval hierarchies, cost centres etc.
• Raising and processing journals - Detail and record proposed journals required e.g. recovering funds from other business units, raise into Finance or SSCL for processing. Review that the journals have been done correctly after SSCL processing
• Processes / Training – Support documentation of the financial processes that apply in Fleet and ensuring there is clear training material in place using Fleet or corporate information. Arrange and hold training sessions with new joiners to Fleet Services that need to know how to undertake certain activities in their roles

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. Please note that your documents are saved in either PDF or Word format, clearly labelled as CV.

Completed applications must be submitted by 23:55 on 11th August 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 2 weeks after the closing date.

Following application review, successful candidates will be invited to interview. Interview dates will commence 2 weeks after hiring manager review.

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Essential For The Role, e.g. qualifications, licenses, languages, training

Knowledge and Skills

• Organisational skills – strong ability to plan and prioritise a complex workload to be able to meet demanding stakeholder expectations and deadlines.
• Output focused – ability to interpret and coordinate outputs from senior management meetings into clear action plans and work with action owners to ensure delivery
• Planning – excellent planning and organisation skills to effectively assess supplier requirements from initiation through to contract delivery
• MPS Knowledge - Organisational and governance structures across the MPS and how they interact with each other
• Problem solving - Ability to resolve problems, making informed judgements and determining priorities
• Fleet Services - Understands how fleet services work
• IT skills – good IT skills, able to use standard Office products and MPS systems effectively
• Analytical skills – Able to analyse diverse sets of information in order to draw out appropriate correlations between data sets in order to generate solutions to complex operational and strategic problems

Experience

• Finance – Experience in business analytics, investment appraisal, budgeting and forecasting, management reporting, commercial/contract processes
• Governance – Experience in leading governance initiatives for business units
• Collaboration – Experience working in a multi-function environment, collaborating across multiple teams and organisations
• Certifications - CCAB or equivalent part/full membership