Performance Analyst
Vacancy Reference Number
20018
Number of Vacancies
1
(B) OCU
Referencing and Vetting
Location
Sidcup
Building
MARLOWE HOUSE
Band
Band D
Part/Full Time
Full Time
Hours per Week
36 hours per week
Type of Contract
Permanent
Job Advert
Job Title: Performance Analyst
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: Sidcup, but there may be a requirement to travel to other MPS locations.
Job Purpose
Referencing and Vetting requires a Performance Analyst to track, measure and report on all aspects of the performance of the unit using standard appropriate Key Performance Indicators. The Performance Analyst will also be responsible for producing timely and accurate management information; to provide a pack of management information for weekly and monthly SLT meetings; to provide insight into weekly case review meetings and answer real time queries about business performance raised by any appropriate business function or stakeholder. The role holder will be an ambassador for analytics, supporting others to improve and interpret data.
The Role
As a Performance Analyst in Referencing & Vetting, you will work with a range of stakeholders, supported by your Lead Analyst to deliver evidence based, high quality, and insightful analysis to support the delivery of MPS objectives. It includes using analytical findings to identify trends, forecast future implications and highlight areas of good or poor performance. You'll look to enable and support data-driven decision making across the MPS.
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 Referencing 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 Referencing 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 contact and develop working relationships with relevant customers and stakeholders connected with Referencing and Vetting.
* Referencing 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 contact to ensure that the wider stakeholder groups needs are met where this is possible and managed where it is not. Providing business insight to these groups to ensure that they are managed appropriately.
Supplier Representatives: On an ad hoc and a routine basis to ensure that key suppliers are able to meet the requirements of the business.
Criteria in Assessment
All applications will first go through a Paper Sift (CV and Personal Statement review).
For applicants who are successful at Paper Sift, there will be two stages to follow:
* Analytical Skills Test – a pre-interview exercise designed to assess your ability to analyse and interpret data. If successful, you will proceed to the next stage.
* Presentation and Competency-Based Interview – presenting findings from the pre-interview exercise, followed by competency-based questions.
Full details and guidance will be provided for the second and third stages if you are successful at Paper Sift.
These assessments are based on the following Met Competency and Values Framework (CVF) for Band D Level 2 Competences:
* We analyse critically
* We are collaborative
* We take ownership
* We demonstrate Integrity (Value).
How to apply
To begin your career at the Met, please click the "apply now" button below. The application process requires a comprehensive CV, a Personal Statement, and an online application form. In your Personal Statement, you should explain your interest in the position and illustrate how your skills and experiences make you a suitable candidate. Please keep this to two sides of A4 – Arial Font Size 10 Please note that you should not submit two copies of your CV, and ensure that your documents are saved in either PDF or Word format, clearly labelled as CV and/or Personal Statement.
Completed applications must be submitted by 23:55 on 18th November 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 early December.
Essential For The Role
Essential For The Role, e.g. qualifications, licenses, languages, training
Essential Criteria:
Education/Experience:
* Computer literacy, particularly to have skills in Office 365 Excel at Intermediate level, PowerPoint, 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 deadlines.
* Confident in working with all levels of Referencing 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 Metropolitan Police 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 Power BI, Excel, Tableau and SQL).
Required Languages
English
Reports To
Band C Higher Performance Analyst
Candidate Information Pack
Band D - Performance – 21KB Opens in a new window
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Additional Information
CVF Staff – 971KB Opens in a new window
The following competencies will be tested against during sift:
* We analyse critically at level 2
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