Simon Devine Email & Phone Number

Bristol, GB

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

• Part of RF ELT reporting to the Divisional Finance Director, leading Retail Finance delivery & people initiatives to 300+ finance professionals and supporting Group Finance wide change initiatives.
• Recognised as Finance BP role model, supported development of Advanced Business Partner development course working with Microsoft, Oracle & Vodafone for peers in Group Finance leadership roles.
• Coached and mentored multiple colleagues to support their personal career progression.
• Finance lead on a Group-wide Customer Rectification relating to legacy safe custody items – controlled project cost to fix £25m and £12m customer redress collaborating with Group Audit, Deloitte & FCA.
• Designed, developed and delivered Retail Finance Leaders survey – to assess Finance contribution with 50 Retail Execs, now rolled out across Group Finance.

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

• Partner to the Managing Director and their Director team on all Finance, FTE control and commercial issues impacting +1100 Lloyds & BOS branch network. Direct cost base £550m (8% LBG) and 14,000 colleagues (20% LBG)..
• Delivered £150+m cost reduction since 2019 (30%, 5000 FTE) with extra £100m via branch evolution over next 4yrs. Applied rigorous financial control and performance monitoring, holding executives to account.
• Finance lead for LBGs largest strategic investment programme (c£700m) to support strategic branch rationalisation & improvement programme with £250m benefits run rate, through robust financial modelling with clear.
• Finance Controller for Branch Strategic Investment delivering a programme of branch closures, refurbishments, refits & relocations. In 2022, delivered 200 closures (double long run trend), managing £160m of investment.
• Indirectly lead and direct over 30+ through centralised finance functions to deliver analysis, insights, financial/business reporting and planning, investment business casing and conduct risk management
• Directed & collaborated with Boston Consulting Group – as Branch SME for the Group Strategic “Rocks”.

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

• Head of Finance – Bank of Scotland Branch Network Oct 10 – May 17Partner to the Managing Director and their Director team on all Finance, FTE control and commercial issues impacting +250 BOS branch network. Direct cost.
• Delivered £35m cost reduction over 6 years, reducing branch footprint by third, restructuring the branch operations & leadership teams and exiting the Bancassurance face to face advice.
• Business Partnered four different MDs – two of which are now CEOs for TSB & AXA UK
• Developed & implemented, a hybrid customer service & sales role – a forerunner to Universal Banker. Focused on simple savings products only, initially piloted with 300 colleagues across BoS but then adopted in Lloyds &.
• Supported BoS navigate commercial & culture impact of removing Colleague reward and product volumes MI visibility. Quantified commercial, developed reporting & analytics to highlight unintended outcomes. Enabled BoS.
• Collaborated with McKinsey – Branch Channel lead on the Group Strategic Initiatives (GSI 3)

London, England, United Kingdom

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Bristol / Birmingham / Edinburgh

Senior Manager, Branch Network Costs (2003-05) Senior Manager, Operational Performance & MI, Telephone Banking (1999-03) Manager, Customer Intelligence & Market Insight, Group Marking, Lloyds TSB (1996-99) Business Banking roles - SME Lending, Commercial Recoveries & Securities, TSB (1988-96)

Future Leaders & Advanced Business Partnering

Ukrb Leadership Programme

Qualified ‘93; Fellow ‘05