Sylvie Billion

EDF Trading Executive Director, CFO

United Kingdom

About

• 35 years in the Financial Division with expanding responsibilities on information technology, procurement and administration, managing teams up 200 staff, • Outstanding skills and experience in treasury, issuing more than Bn$24 bonds in 18 months during the financial crisis 2008-2009, and the re-opening in 2009 of the French retail capital market for a corporate, • Excellent expertise in asset management, overseeing treasury and pension portfolios up to Bn$ 30, • 20 years solid expertise in financial risk management and Asset Liability Management, including creating one of the first capital market risk control departments in 1990, developing early risk-adjusted return on capital frameworks ahead of Basel II, and introducing innovative products such as the first catastrophe windstorm bond for a distribution network. • Leverage on strong analytical skills to design effective tailored financial strategies, • Exceptional drive in implementing challenging projects through resources and people mobilisation, • Lead through achievement with demanding and supportive style with a strong focus on building a positive working environment, • Highly adaptable to new environments, with experience across public and private sectors, including banking, in multicultural settings.

Experience

  • Board Member, Natwest Markets NV at NatWest Markets Plc
    Oct 2025 - Present · 10 mos

    Natwest Markets N.V.Group: European C&I and CIB  investment bank , subsidiary of Natwest Group    Member of the Supervisory Board and the Audit Committee

  • Board Member Institut Curie at Institut Curie
    Sep 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 11 mos

    Institut Curie - Institut Curie is an international renowned research centre with a state-of-the-art hospital working on three missions: care, research and transmission. (3,300 researchers, physcians and caregivers). -          Member of the Supervisory Board and Chairwoman of the Audit, Finance and Risk Committee

  • Executive Director, CFO at EDF Trading
    Apr 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 4 mos

    Member of the EDF Trading Board and the EDF Trading Executive Committee. In charge of all back office and finance activities (accounting, controlling, tax, treasury, performance monitoring). -          Lead EDF Trading’s global finance function, including oversight and advisory support for subsidiaries such as EDF Trading Markets, EDF Trading Europe and EDF Trading North America, -          Advises the Group Senior Executive Vice-President, of EDF Group, Chairman of the Board of Directors on the financial implications of the company's major decisions, strategies and transactions, - EDF Trading is an EDF Group subsidiary dealing in the global wholesale energy markets: electricity, gas, LNG, freight and environmental products. Offices in: Paris, London, Houston and Singapore.   - Manage and facilitate relationships and communication flows on all financial and commercial matters with the EDF Group, the audit committee and the board of directors, - Represent the company as CFO in its dealings with regulators (Financial Conduct Authority, CRE), customers and rating agencies. Member of the Board of Directors Within EDF Trading: -          EDFT Europe -          EDFT Markets -          EDF Trading Holdings LLC

  • International Chief Financial Officer at EDF
    Jan 2019 - Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 3 mos

    Executive Committee Member International Division, ​Executive Committee Member Group Finance Division, Responsibilities: - Controlling and Performance management of international assets ( 20 Business units, Ebitda 500M€,1Bn€ investment 3 years rolling) , - Project finance ( around 50 projects: BP, project finance, financial partnership,…) - Optimizing the financial trajectory of the International strategy - Development of structured finance . ​Board member : - Luminus ( Belgium) (rank 2d on Belgium energy market ); Chair of Audit Committee - Norte Fluminense ( Brazil) ( CCGT 826MW, Hydro power 400MW), - Nachtigal Hydro Power Company ( Cameroun) ( building 400MW dam).

  • Director of the Finance, Information, Procurement and Administration Division at Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria
    Nov 2012 - Jan 2019 · 6 yrs 3 mos

    Management executive committee member Responsibilities: - Planning the long term financial viability of the Institution, - Safeguard Global Fund’s finances and financial management, - Optimizing the efficient use of resources. Major accomplishments: - Co-built a strong and reliable financial function through the implementation of a new core information system, reengineered processes and the recruitment of high skilled department heads leading to a performing team, - Led the major transformation of the Comprehensive Funding Policy in order to tailored it to the new funding model, ratified unanimously by The Global Fund Board, - Set up the financial safeguards through a regular monitoring of the asset liability management stressing the financial risks of the organization, - Mitigated the currency risks through the implementation of a hedging policy protecting the non-USD pledges- accounted for 50% of the Global Fund resources- from market volatility, - Contributed to develop the financial optimization of the grant portfolio. - Created the treasury function and successfully reshaped the partnership with the World Bank, - Implemented a financial framework for principal recipients, aiming to secure the cash management and mitigate the financial risks in countries, - Financially secured the fifth replenishment in shaping financial solutions and monitoring the financial results. - Act as interim Chief Information Officer: settle issues on the core business project, reshape the budgeting process, rebuild a positive constructive customer oriented mindset, redesign the IT Strategy, search and handover to the new CIO. - Supervision of the sourcing and management of Health product department representing 50% of Global Fund investment - Leading the construction project of the new premises, The Health Campus