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Jacek Mendyk

Kirkland,WA

Summary

Distinguished finance leader with over 15 years of telecommunications experience, specializing in financial analysis, budgeting, and project cost management. Achieved 15-20% cost savings through strategic planning and process optimization, utilizing SAP ERP and advanced Excel. Skilled in guiding cross-functional teams toward operational excellence and stakeholder alignment, emphasizing digital transformation and efficiency.

Overview

26
26
years of professional experience

Work History

Cost and Progress Senior Manager

NOKIA US
Bellevue, WA
12.2017 - 04.2025

• Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including operations and customer service, to manage T-Mobile projects worth over $300M annually, achieving 15% cost savings.
• Enhanced project cost management by delivering clear visibility and structure, streamlining lifecycle efficiency.
• Analyzed cost reports and communicated insights, reducing project issues, and ensuring timely execution.
• Oversaw projects from initiation to closure, maintaining strict control over timelines and budgets.
• Directed pre- and post-contract cost management, driving 15-20% savings through precise estimation.
• Led cross-functional teams to implement cost-saving strategies, boosting financial efficiency.
• Streamlined reporting with advanced Excel techniques, cutting reporting time by 15%, and improving accuracy.
• Integrated SAP for financial reporting, enhancing data accuracy and efficiency by 20%.
• Developed annual cost plans and managed EAC/ASBL, optimizing financial forecasting and risk analysis.
Key Tasks: Providing the Project Leader (PM, SPM, PD) with necessary and required information related to all project progress and cost issues, for the project to achieve increased cost and project execution efficiency • Estimating, monitoring, reporting, analyzing, and managing the project execution progress against time, milestones, and invoicing schedule agreed upon in the customer contract • Providing the project financial position of Estimate At Completion (EAC) and variance against As Sold Baseline (ASBL) • Analyze the financial LE (Latest Estimate) variations or movement for the review with Business Owners • Analyze the risks and impact on financial LE forecasting • Reporting, analyzing, and managing projects' Non-Conformance Cost (NCC) •Ensure the consistent revenue, cost planning, and recognition timeline •Estimating, monitoring, reporting, analyzing, and managing all projects related to procurement and costs against the cost baseline • Periodically monitor and control the project progress; review the EAC with the respective Project Business Manager
•Creating annual cost plans for the T-Mobile account.

Cost and Progress Manager

Nokia Solutions and Networks (previously Siemens)
Warsaw, Poland
02.2000 - 12.2017

• Successfully managed projects totaling over 1.5 billion EUR.
• Responsible for contracts with Orange France, T-Mobile Poland and Czech Republic, Polish Railways, UK Maya Project.
• Implemented project controls measures for large-scale projects, resulting in a 20% improvement in cost management and forecasting accuracy.
• Provided support to Customer Project Team - providing the visibility and structure for efficient project cost management in services business throughout the project lifecycle. Includes the analysis of cost reports, detection of issues and effective communication of the project’s cost performance.
• See the project through from set-up through execution and closure.
• Conducted comprehensive financial forecasting and variance analysis across multi-million-euro projects.
• Partnered with customer service teams to align cost strategies, improving client satisfaction by 10%.
Key Tasks:
• Manage the revenue, cost and profit on Services in respective Customer Team (CT) projects• Consolidate all the input data/information for financial LE forecasting • Provide the project financial position of Estimate At Completion (EAC) and variance against As Sold Baseline (ASBL) • Analyze the financial LE variations or movement for the review with Business Owners • Analyze the customer PO dependencies for financial LE forecasting • Analyze the risks and impact on financial LE forecasting • Extra works and non-quality cost management, process creation and deployment • Creates cost management structure in ERP system • Project cost planning and implementation of project baseline in ERP systems • EAC and ETC analysis and reporting • Instructs the execution team and Logistics on how to book costs correctly against the created structure • Resource cost management • Pre-Sales Support • Assisting with project post-calculations

Project Financial Controller

Orange Polska
Warsaw, Poland
08.1999 - 02.2000
  • Developed cost tracking system that reduced errors by 10%
    Key Tasks: • responsible for project controlling • responsible for marketing and finance training • planning training schedules etc.

Education

Master of Science - Finance

University of Warsaw
Warsaw,Poland
06-1999

Skills

  • ERP expert (SAP)
  • Power BI
  • Salesforce CRM
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft office expert
  • Project management
  • Cost management
  • Cost analysis
  • Risk management
  • Financial forecasting
  • Data analysis
  • Budget management
  • Financial management
  • Reporting accuracy
  • Data analytics
  • Change management
  • Corporate communications
  • Collaborate cross-functionally
  • Problem-solving
  • Cost analysis

Timeline

Cost and Progress Senior Manager

NOKIA US
12.2017 - 04.2025

Cost and Progress Manager

Nokia Solutions and Networks (previously Siemens)
02.2000 - 12.2017

Project Financial Controller

Orange Polska
08.1999 - 02.2000

Master of Science - Finance

University of Warsaw