Frida Kungania

Support enterprise service groups to analyze project costs, monitor financial performance, and ensure accurate budget status at the project and work stream level.

• Strategic Financial Partnership: Collaborate with project managers, finance teams, and other stakeholders to deliver accurate and timely financial insights, translating TMNA accounting policies into actionable business terms.
• Budget Management: Develop and maintain project budgets, ensuring alignment with the budget and objectives through monthly updates and adjustments.
• Contract Management: Manage the intake and tracking of contract SOWs, monitor contract statuses, and translate them into actionable monthly forecasts to guide financial planning.
• Monthly Reporting: Prepare and present financial reports for project leads, and summarize insights for executives, including variance explanations.
• Risk Management: Identify financial risks and opportunities, and provide recommendations to optimize budgets and mitigate potential issues.

Senior Financial Analyst under the VP of FP&A, supporting IT and G&A teams.

• Budgeting and Forecasting: Managed budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis for all IT and G&A spending.
• Performance Management: Published and presented OPEX results with key department heads to evaluate operational risks and opportunities.
• Headcount Management: Initiated and created weekly headcount reporting for budget owners, tracked hiring to plan, and approved requisition of new hires.
• Month-End Accruals: Reconciled general ledger accounts, researched and prepared journal entries, and provided variance explanations.

First Senior Financial Analyst hired to work under the VP of Finance. Collaborated closely with accounting, operations, marketing, and sales in a fast-growing and dynamic start-up environment to provide timely and insightful analysis and commentary to highlight the impact on future performance.

• Sales Management: Prepared revenue and margin KPIs, and forecasts for upper management. Created a report automating unit economic analysis using variable inputs to evaluate rate, volume, supplier, and product mix impacts.
• Performance Management: Published and presented OPEX results with key department heads to evaluate operational risks and opportunities. Supported cost savings of $150k+ in OPEX in 2020.
• Business Case Analysis: Performed profitability and cost-benefit analyses to support major strategic business decisions. Supported a business decision that would improve the contribution margin by 11% for a channel.

Reporting to the CFO, I was the first and had been the sole Planning and Control Analyst for eMotorwerks (now Enel X eMobility NA) post-acquisition. Conducted all financial and strategic analyses. Prepared and published reporting requirements from income statements, balance sheets, cash flow statements, and other periodic reports for all business units and teams.

• Post Acquisition Finance: In partnership with global finance teams, we supported the transition, rebrand, and consolidation of all operations from eMotorwerks into our parent company, Enel X North America.
• Strategic Sales Planning and Sales Operation Support: Offered strategic guidance to the sales team by creating a bottoms-up revenue model that exposed a shortfall in sales and sales support HC. This resulted in critical budget adjustments, and thus reduced revenue risk in 2019. Supported sales in setting quota targets.
• Performance Management: Created weekly KPI reports with a monthly revenue forecast for management, allowing for mitigation in cases of revenue shortfall risk from certain channels, e.g., through promotions.
• Long-Term Planning: Prepared a five-year plan for revenue, margins, expenses, and headcount by analyzing market data, preparing and leveraging historic reports, and partnering with business partners such as operations, sales, and IT for cost planning and other budget needs.
• Systems Support: Partnered with the Business Planning Office to implement the SAP system and set up finance structures.

Supported the running of an efficient, transparent, and controlled IT delivery organization globally.

Actively engaged in providing financial analysis to multiple internal stakeholders, facilitating strategic decision-making on investments, operations, cost reduction, and product development.