Job Description

Performance Analyst
Location: Sidcup, but there may be a requirement to travel to other MPS locations.
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: The salary is broken down as £43,000basic 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.
PCD290153

Skills and Experience
Education/Experience:
• Computer literacy, particularly to have skills in productivity suite spreadsheet software at Intermediate level, presentation software, Word with the relevant presentational skills alongside.
• We would require applicants to have a basic knowledge of SQL and willingness to learn and develop further in this.
Skills, Knowledge & Experience:
• Excellent communication skills, including presentation skills both verbal and written.
• Being able to build and maintain relationships with a wide range of customers and stakeholders.
• Proven ability to work under pressure and to tight.
• Confident in working with all levels of and Vetting to identify and resolve issues, making recommendations for improvement.
• Flexible approach to work with ability to work unsupervised and independently.
• Good stakeholder management with the ability to engage with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders and colleagues at all levels of the organisation.
• Be self-motivated and have the willingness to learn and develop in the role.
• A broad range of experiences inside or outside the organisation Service with examples of broad experience in a professional discipline relevant to the role.
Desirable Criteria (Training will be provided where required):
• Graduate and/or professional qualification or worked experience in a statistical, analytical, social science, business management or related discipline.
• An ability to demonstrate the equivalent level of knowledge, skills and competencies gained through extensive and high-level experience in complex environments.
• An ability to demonstrate a good knowledge of how to manage, analyse and visualise large datasets (ideally using business intelligence platform, spreadsheet software, business intelligence platform and SQL).

Role Overview
£43,000–£46,500 a year

Location: Sidcup Building MARLOWE HOUSE
Band: Band D
Part/Full Time: Full Time
Hours per Week:36 hours per week
Salary: The starting salary is £46,500, which includes allowances totalling £2,928.

You will be responsible for:
• Undertaking analysis; this will include analysing diverse datasets to produce high quality analytical products. This may include:
• Presenting effectively and owning regular meetings with key stakeholders to assess and identify issues to enable data-driven decisions,.
• Producing high quality analytical products that communicate findings in a meaningful way for the intended customer using a range of presentational styles,.
• Building and maintaining effective internal relationships with staff and external stakeholders to ensure we understand their needs and deliver the right products,.
• Supporting the development of analytical processes, tools and techniques to ensure the production of insightful products that enable decision making, learning and provide assurance,.
• Balancing and manage competing priorities,.
• Undertaking ad hoc reporting.

Key Result Areas
• To use analytical findings to identify trends, forecast future implications and highlight areas of good or poor performance to a wide range of senior stakeholders within and Vetting, the wider Met Police Service, the Home Office, the Mayor’s Office and the DBS.
• To offer advice on the appropriate setting of targets and monitoring performance against formal and informal objectives. Offering reasons for good or poor performance that goes beyond just the numbers and making predictions that aid decision making.
• Informing the iterative design of the and Vetting service offer and products used within R&V in order to ensure effectiveness, efficiency and accuracy.
• In line with appropriate guidelines produce complex analytical products, papers and reports for the Senior Leadership Team, customers and stakeholders to establish links, sequences and patterns and interpret and develop inferences, hypothesis, key judgements, predictions, conclusions, information gaps and recommendations based upon analysis.
• Communicate analytical work to Senior Leadership Team and stakeholders through effective reports and presentations and provide briefings. Advising on significant analytical results and inferences; detailing options for consideration and the potential impact of such options.
• Ensuring that products and documentation within the team’s remit comply with MPS policies and any legal obligations such as the Freedom of Information Act and the Data Protection Act.

Communications & Working Relationships
The jobholder will have and regular interaction with colleagues of all levels within the MPS sourcing, assessing and distributing relevant data and trends. The jobholder will also engage in regular.
• and Vetting SLT: Regular, ad-hoc and formal, face-to-face and in writing, reporting on trends and analysis and making meaningful recommendations based on data. Providing updates on the creation of IT projects they have been involved in.
• Senior Clients: Participation in ad hoc and formal meetings up to and including the Service Delivery Director level to ensure that the service meets the required standards and to report on recommendations to improve the service.
• External Stakeholders: Regular. Providing business insight to these groups to ensure that they are managed appropriately.

 Competences:
• We analyse critically.
• We are collaborative.
• We take ownership.
• We demonstrate Integrity (Value).