Senior Met Law Officer
Job Title: Senior MetLaw Officer
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: Holborn
The Directorate of Legal Services is the largest in-house police legal team in the country providing a range of legal advice and support to the whole of the Met and National Police Chief Council (NPCC). We undertake a vast range of work from civil litigation and commercial to operational policing and family disclosure advice.
The Business Services Team is made up of around 26 people who collectively have responsibility for providing business support to the rest of the Directorate of Legal Services delivering a range of services including finance, staffing, professional standards, business continuity, administration, and business support. It is the operational backbone of this large, and growing, in-house legal team.
The post-holder will be a member of the MetLaw team of around 10 people who manage all aspects of the National Legal Services Framework (NLSF) contracts as well as the Emergency Boarding Up contract, dealing with MetLaw queries, processing and dealing with invoices for NLSF firms, Counsel and in-house DLS cases and case holders.
Whilst the team are based in Holborn the post benefits from hybrid working in line with the Met Hybrid Working Policy (to work from the office at least three days a week with flexibility for the rest of the time).
This is a managerial role within a finance team – responsibilities will include:
- To be a point of contact for all enquiries from MPS staff, members of the public and external contractors relating to payments made on DLS cases and outsourced MPS Legal Work. This includes monitoring multiple team mailboxes and incoming post/emails.
- Deal with and problem solve queries from clients, contractors, counsel, SLT, in-house lawyers and MOPAC.
- To scrutinise and certify high volumes of complex invoices from both external contractors and in house staff, ensuring compliance with contractual requirements, identifying any inconsistencies, and taking the appropriate corrective action.
- Process PSOP forms, enter and maintain new customers and suppliers on PSOP and run searches if queries arise.
- Process payment remittances, ensuring customers and case holders are swiftly notified of payments being made.
- Process and credit any DLS payments coming into the MPS as well as processing any refunds to external sources.
- Process payment requests from external contractors in relation to outsourced work.
- Process and deal with any queries relating to BACS payments for the DLS Family Disclosure Team
- Ensuring prompt payments are made and liaising with SSCL to discuss and solve any issues that arise during the process.
- Run reconciliation reports against cost centre and subjective codes, ensuring payments have been made against the correct budgets.
- Produce and update monthly forecasts, ensuring that DLS comply with the budgets for high profile cases.
- Run monthly and End of Year accruals and reports.
- Produce and analyse specific detailed reports for MOPAC, SLT, Accountants, Insurers, and other high-level clients.
- Run ad-hoc reports for management as well as for FOIA requests that DLS receive.
- Responsible for overseeing the DLS Imprest account and cashbook, ensuring the figures balance on a weekly and monthly basis, dealing with any inconsistencies or queries that arise.
- Responsibility for the Band E work allocation and monitoring.
- Shared line management for Band E’s within the team.
- Deputise for the MetLaw Manager as required.
- Assisting the Band C when required as well as the Band E’s when necessary.
How to apply
Click the apply now button below and start your career at the Met. Applications will be via a detailed CV, Personal Statement, and online application form. Your personal statement should outline why you are interested in the role and how your skills and experience demonstrate your suitability for the role. (NB. Please do not attach 2 copies of your CV).
Completed applications must be submitted by 23:55 on the 7th of February 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 the 17th of February 2025.
Following application review, successful candidates will be invited to interview. Interview dates will commence the 10th of March 2025.