Philippe Lecomte Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

I was a key member of the PwC project team that has been instrumental to manage the transition of Baker Hughes to become a standalone company after the separation from GE. This involved the implementation of Trax as a Payment Factory and Quantum as TMS. My key responsibility was to perform the bank onboarding of 60+ cash management banks of Baker Hughes on.

As member of the PwC Treasury team, I helped to deploy the Payment Factory System Trax at Comcast Capital Corporation and its business units NBC Universal, Comcast and Sky. The implementation covered North America and Europe and has been leading to increased payment efficiency and visibility on cash. Integration with Quantum and various ERP platforms was.

Brussels Area, Belgium

As seasoned consultant in the SWIFT for Corporates space, I have an advisory role at SWIFT helping them on an ad hoc basis with several strategic initiatives related to corporates on SWIFT. My current focus is on enablement of the cash management and treasury management vendor community for the SWIFT gpi (Global Payments Innovation). Other activities are.

Intertrust Group performs a wide range of financial services to its customers. To streamline the payment processes and achieve better single-window visibility on their cash management position, they implemented Trax as a payment factory. As lead consultant for FIS, I performed the full implementation from solution design over bank on-boarding to UAT.

ADM is a leading manufacturer of agricultural goods. ADM selected Trax as payment factory solution to achieve better payment traceability and statement visibility. As FIS Lead Consultant, I worked with the customer from start to finish to perform solution design, integration with the ERP, bank onboarding and go-live testing.

Brussels Area, Belgium

As the business lines of Tyco and Johnson Controls were integrated post-merger, I managed the project bank onboarding of Tyco's cash management banks onto the existing SWIFT channel that Johnson Controls has since many years. Implementation of Tyco's banks and bank accounts in the Trax application (cash management solution from FIS) was achieved in 6.

Brussels Area, Belgium

As Johnson Controls performed the spin off of their Automotive Business line to the newly created company Adient, it was imperative that all existing cash management business flows were transitioned from the Johnson Controls SWIFT channel to a SWIFT channel of Adient itself. This had to be carefully managed with the cash management banks I managed the.

Geneva Area, Switzerland

I was hired as a senior consultant by IATA Geneva to help them implement a global Remittance & Settlement solution. They had joined the SWIFT SCORE programme and were seeking for help to onboard their 70 cash management banks in 125 countries by the end of 2014. At the end of 2012, I had managed to implement live messaging with 50 of their banks in 100.

Responsible for business development through global relationships with key channel & alliance partnersImplemented partnerships in West Africa, Baltics and North AmericaGlobal relationship manager for Microsoft

Greater New York City Area

• International expat assignment to drive business development for North and Latin America through commercial partnerships with leading providers of software and services to the SWIFT community.
• Performed change management project to transform traditional reseller model in Americas to ecosystem of distribution channels generating over 2 M USD per year representing an increase of 25% compared to previous model
• Negotiated global partnership agreement with Microsoft resulting in off-the-shelf support for new XML-solutions for cash management, investment funds and supply chain in BizTalk Server.
• Successfully contributed to various corporate-to-bank implementations. Acted as liaison between the project managers of the corporations, the consulting firms such as Treasury Strategies, Deloitte, Elire, PwC, … and.
• Keynote speaker at various SWIFT Corporate Forums
• Architected commercial model for inter-connecting SWIFT with various corporate platforms

• Accomplished successful project management of new category of SWIFTReady labels for new XML based solutions. Instrumental was efficient communication with vendors and the management of the requirements as expressed by.
• Managed team of market specialists responsible for business development with partners in support of transition from proprietary messaging standards to XML based SWIFTSolutions
• Launched new programme for business and technical certification of SWIFT Certified Experts resulting in 200 newly accredited implementation engineers across various business lines such as SEPA and corporate-to-bank.

• Developed business case to document worldwide industry savings from migration from X.25 to IP-based network. Coordinated continuous communication with internal and external stakeholders across all regions
• Executed various projects at European and Asian institutions, providing cost benefit analysis for technology upgrade to XML standards. Performed impact analysis on existing data flows and regional processes

• Global consortium of SIS, SWIFT and TCS selected by Global Straight Through Processing Association (GSTPA) to develop T+0 securities matching utility.
• Managed to convince the leading middleware providers to develop brand new software that would support the new matching engine. Overcame major obstacles related to continuous changes to the pre-pilot phase requirements..
• Worked side-by-side with the pilot customers and the pilot vendors to ensure mission-critical support for pilot phase and live launch.

• Created industry-acclaimed SWIFTReady labeling programme, still in use today with over 100 software and services solutions compliant to strict SWIFT criteria
• Recognized as instrumental achievement leading to worldwide improved quality of SWIFT-related software and services, triggering substantial ongoing savings for the global SWIFT community through increased STP
• Project management for roll-out and communication of newly defined labeling requirements to worldwide vendor community and to banking customers

• Project managed implementation of CRM system and traffic analysis tool for use by Sales teams. Executed workshops with regional sales stakeholders for requirement gathering.and delivered training to regional teams

Project manager for rebranding project of SECA. Changing corporate identity from collateral, service stations,... Highly intense and time-critical project with tight budget control

Master, Civil Engineering - Physics

Bachelor, Economical Sciences