Layachi Financial Technology Consulting · Montreux, Switzerland

IT consulting for
financial services.

I'm Mehdi Layachi, an independent Regulatory Technology advisor with fifteen years inside Swiss and European financial services — delivering IT programs, migrating regulated workloads to the cloud, and handling the functional detail behind regulatory compliance.

What I do

Services

Go-to-market & territory strategy

Territory and account strategy built on first-hand knowledge of financial services — how banks, asset managers, tax authorities and regulators evaluate, budget and adopt technology. I help vendors and institutions segment markets, map expansion opportunities and build account plans grounded in that experience, not assumptions.

IT business analysis

CBAP-certified requirements gathering, functional specifications and stakeholder alignment for complex financial-services systems, from scoping through to sign-off.

IT project management

Prince2 and Scrum-trained delivery — project plans, budgets, steering committees and vendor coordination, run the way regulated institutions expect.

Cloud migration advisory

Planning and executing the move of regulated workloads to the cloud, with the governance and audit trail that frameworks like DORA require from financial-services institutions.

Tax & regulatory functional expertise

Functional expertise in FATCA, CRS, QI and DAC6 — turning cross-border reporting obligations into business requirements and system logic teams can build.

How an engagement runs

Approach

  1. 01

    Diagnose

    Audit the current systems, processes and regulatory exposure. I tell you where the real gap is — technical, functional or organizational — before proposing anything.

  2. 02

    Plan

    Business requirements, functional specifications and a project plan your team and vendors can actually execute against.

  3. 03

    Deliver

    Run the analysis, project management or cloud-migration workstream directly, embedded with your stakeholders and steering committee.

  4. 04

    Hand off

    Document the process so it continues to run smoothly after the engagement ends.

Career

Experience

2022 — 2025 Senior Account Executive, Finance & Regulatory Technology Regnology Switzerland SA (formerly BearingPoint)
  • Advised regulated banks, tax authorities, central banks and government oversight bodies on cloud-based regulatory-technology adoption and migration.
  • Owned strategic accounts exceeding CHF 10M ACV at 99% retention, with a strong functional understanding of the regulatory obligations behind each project.
  • Partnered with product and customer-success teams to translate cross-border reporting requirements into platform capabilities and business cases.
  • Led engagements with C-level stakeholders through structured project and territory planning, consistently exceeding assigned annual targets.
2017 — 2021 Head of Regulatory Tax Advisory Services Regnology Switzerland SA (formerly BearingPoint)
  • Managed a team of 10 consultants advising regulated financial institutions and tax authorities.
  • Oversaw 200+ client accounts, driving sales and expansion of the regulatory tax SaaS platform.
  • Built long-term C-level relationships across Switzerland's banking sector.
2015 — 2016 Business Analyst, Senior Associate Gottex Asset Management (Switzerland) SA
  • Implemented the Markit EDM Security Master File, defining project scope and functional specifications.
  • Maintained the Webfolio portfolio management system supporting daily operations.
  • Delivered strategic project planning and reporting directly to C-level executives.
2010 — 2015 Business Analyst & Project Manager BNP Paribas — Geneva, Paris, London, Dublin
  • Deployed payment messaging, filtering and compliance tools across branches overseas; migrated SWIFT and SIC flows to new platforms.
  • Managed UK & Ireland deployment of a Trade Finance back-office tool, from business requirements to functional specification.
  • Managed Trade Finance e-banking interface upgrades.

Credentials

Credentials

Certifications

  • Google Generative AI Leader
  • Google Cloud Digital Leader
  • Certified Business Analysis Professional
  • Professional Scrum Master
  • Prince2 Project Manager

Education

  • Negotiation for Value Creation — IMD Lausanne
  • MSc Economics & Management — University of Lille

Languages

  • French
  • English
  • German

Get in touch

Contact

Send a message, or reach out on LinkedIn.

LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/mehdi-layachi
Based in Montreux, Switzerland — working across Swiss, Benelux & EMEA markets