Vrenda Denova

About Vrenda Denova

I oversee a global FX portfolio with $60B+ in annual trading volume for a multinational oil & gas company operating across 40+ countries, supporting complex, multi-currency balance sheet and cash flow exposures.I serve as a strategic advisor to executive leadership, partnering across treasury, finance, commercial, and investor-facing functions to improve earnings stability, risk transparency, and decision-making at enterprise level.I own financial market risk initiatives end-to-end — from identifying enterprise-level gaps and designing solutions, through implementation, adoption, and ongoing strategic advisory — ensuring frameworks are embedded, used correctly, and sustained over time to drive real financial outcomes.My work focuses on transforming fragmented data and manual processes into scalable financial models and risk frameworks, shifting financial risk from a reactive control function into proactive strategic insight. These capabilities directly inform commercial pricing decisions, country risk premiums, capital deployment, and portfolio strategy before volatility materializes in earnings.As a result of these initiatives, we reduced annual FX losses by 77% within the first year, moving from hundreds of millions to low double-digit millions, with continued improvements in performance, predictability, and commercial advisory thereafter.In short, I design, build, and own solutions that turn financial volatility into strategic foresight — with measurable, sustained dollar impact.

Experience

1. Senior Portfolio Analyst, Financial Market Risk

   TechnipFMC

   Apr 2025 — Present · Houston, TX, US

   Serve as a strategic advisor to executive leadership, translating complex FX, liquidity and country risk exposures into actionable insights impacting earnings, capital planning, and commercial- Architect and designed various financial tools and models that transform fragmentated data and manual processes into standardized, auditable, and decision-ready models used across treasury, finance, accounting and commercial functions. Leading successful rollouts across 18+ subsidiaries, ensuring tools are not only delivered but embedded, used correctly and sustained.

Education

• Texas State University

  Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Accounting

  2018 — 2020