Istanbul, Türkiye
I believe finance delivers its greatest value when it becomes a strategic partner to leadership enabling better decisions, strengthening governance, and creating long term value. My career has been shaped by one belief: the role of finance is not only to protect organizations from risk, but also to help leaders make better decisions, navigate uncertainty, and create sustainable competitive advantage. This mindset has led me to work at the intersection of finance, enterprise risk, corporate strategy, and executive leadership. At SOCAR Türkiye, I work across financial and commodity risk management, enterprise risk governance, and executive decision support. Beyond managing market, foreign exchange, interest rate, liquidity, and counterparty risks, I contribute to value creation initiatives, strategic projects, and the digital transformation of finance and risk management processes. Previously, at Volkswagen Doğuş Finans, I specialized in enterprise risk management, IFRS 9, asset-liability management (ALM), stress testing, and portfolio analytics while collaborating closely with local executive management and Volkswagen Financial Services AG in Germany. Working within an international organization strengthened my ability to communicate across cultures, align with global governance standards, and support executive level decision-making. Across every stage of my career, I have had the privilege of working closely with senior executives and decision-makers. These experiences have shaped not only my technical expertise but also my professional judgment, leadership mindset, and ability to translate complex financial and risk matters into clear strategic insights. As a Young Energy Leader at the World Energy Council, I collaborate with leaders and professionals who are shaping the future of the global energy sector. This experience continues to broaden my perspective on energy transition, sustainable finance, innovation, and responsible leadership. I am motivated by opportunities to build resilient, forward looking organizations where finance is not only a control function but a catalyst for strategy, transformation, and sustainable growth. My long term aspiration is to contribute at the executive level by creating lasting value through strategic finance, effective governance, and principled leadership.
-Lead financial and commodity risk management activities across SOCAR Türkiye Group by monitoring market exposures, trading positions, and hedging strategies. -Manage market, foreign exchange (FX), interest rate, liquidity, and commodity risks in line with the Group's risk appetite. -Develop and strengthen risk management frameworks, internal controls, and governance processes to enhance risk oversight. -Monitor counterparty credit risk and support risk limit allocation through financial analysis and ongoing exposure assessments. -Deliver executive risk reporting, dashboards, and actionable insights to senior management and risk committees. Identify, escalate, and resolve risk limit breaches while ensuring effective risk mitigation and regulatory compliance. -Collaborate with Treasury, Trading, Commercial, and Finance teams to support strategic risk management and business decisions. -Drive the continuous improvement and digitalization of risk management processes, controls, and reporting capabilities. -Partner with the Corporate Strategy team to support the "Değer Benim" (Value Creation) program through financial analysis, business case evaluation, and executive reporting for strategic initiatives.
-Keeping in touch with all departments of the VDF Group, evaluating and monitoring the financial and operational risks that occur or may occur. -Calculating IFRS Credit Risk Provisions for finance, factoring and fleet companies of the group and examining the effect on the balance sheet by performing stress test scenarios -Monitoring and analyzing all portfolio, determining risk reducing measures, and informing top management about possible action plans. -Perform risk evaluation of ALM, which assesses the way the company previously handled risks and detailed portfolio analyses and reporting to Volkswagen FSAG Central Risk Management and local top management. -Preparing, organizing and presenting Risk Committee Presentations -Support the local business side of centralized data warehouse IFRS9 compliance project of Volkswagen Financial Services AG
-Preparing, controlling credit reports and ensuring that credit reports reflect the Banks' risk management approach. -Determining the strengths and weaknesses of the credit -Appropriately analyzing collateral values -Identifying and mitigating policy exceptions -Analyzing financial trends (income statements, cash flow, etc.) -Request additional information as needed from the loan officer and occasionally, the customer directly -Maintain current knowledge of banking/financial terminology and regulations. Detail oriented and be able to read, understand, and closely follow the bank’s loan policy and all pertinent standard operating procedures. -Evaluation of financial data, such as balance sheets and income statement to determine the level of default risk. -Assessment of factors affecting default risk other than financial risk such as personal, economic and market factors. -Evaluation of the ratios about liquidity, financial structure, profitability. -The enterprise's financial condition and operating results to determine whether it is sufficient for development