Istanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye
25+ years of professional experience in various IT domains, with a focus on SAP product (ABAP, Java, Hana) and various industries (solid experience on FMCG). More than 8 years of experience in managing IT Security & Compliance, including SOX, IT Risk Management, Systems Assessment, Audit experience on Cyber Security/ Corporate/Internal/External. Extensive experience in Application Security Support across SAP systems, managing over 600 systems at Unilever with a run budget of €2.3 M and a security project budget of €2.5 M, Strategic plaining/Execution, Vendor management, Governance and monitoring. 5+ years of experience in managing Global IT Operations for Basis and Application Security. 8+ years of experience as an SAP consultant in the FI/CO/SD functions.
Led more than 600+ SAP (ECC, BW4, Hana, PLM, GRC, Solution Man. EWM, PI…) and non-SAP applications security and compliance with 10 employees, 2.3 million Euro operation and 2.5 million Euro project budget. • Extended Application security and compliance team as a ONE team for SAP systems for operations and project including heritage country systems with setting global process in line with Unilever security standard. Reduce turnaround time of support request and ticket number more than % 50 with %100 SLA. • Acted as internal facing buffer for all inbound Audit (SOX Audit, Corporate Audit, Internal/External Audit), Assessment, Compliance, Security and Business requests. Reduce audit observation more than % 95 on all SAP and Non-SAP systems. • Application Security &Compliance lead on Unilever SAP systems Cloud migration project. (600+ systems) • Created roadmap for both Application and DB for taking proactive approach to strength system security and compliance and improve security posture with strong leadership including lifecycle management of the tool. • Established close relationships with business and IT Business Partners to implement Unilever Global security standard. Acted as a trusted advisor to senior management. • Led and drove the security and risk management in line with Unilever security policy and standard, best practices, and leading industry standards. • Led Remediations project for 103 SAP production systems with 1.5+M budget to have secure and compliance systems with different teams in 2022. (10Kblaze) • Reduced manual effort more than % 25 with automations, improve process and set one governance for all systems including operation, Pentest, Vulnerability Assessment remediations and Audit observation for SAP and NON-SAP systems. • Led IBM Guardium tool implementation for KFAS/CJ systems to activate logging and monitoring capability on DB2, Oracle and Hana database in 2022. (11 systems)
Application Support Manager on Security & Compliance area across Unilever (Asia, Europe, Americas, Global systems) with three different Vendors as a one team. • Incident, minor changes and End to End support, team management with 3 different Vendors for 4 different Platforms. (Asia Amet, Europe, India, and America) • Partnered with all inbound audit (SOX, Corporate audit, internal audit) to ensure adoption of process, remediations of observation to reduce risk and improve security for IT Key Financial systems and Change management control. • Dev&Ops model project management, design, land the project, testing, communication, post go live support and budget. • Continuous improvement, automation, Cost reductions, improve utilization of resources and drive resilience. Business Continuity Planning / Disaster Recovery experience. • Setting up a new “Security Monitoring” team with automate of all steps on Solution Manager Config& Validation tool.
• Acted as the key point of contact for Application support, Basis and Authorization team for operation, escalation, and other activities. • Owned IT SOX activities for the landscape, acted as the process owner for SOX, and make sure evidence are kept and shared with external auditors; deficiencies are resolved on time and in full. • Worked closely with AM, SDM and EC Basis teams on all performance issue on the production systems, escalated issue, KEC production track system planning and fixes, coordinate impact assessment activities within respective team/s where required. • Worked with CoE Security, Service Delivery and Risk Management team very closely to understand and update each other about security related project, security standards and issue on Global and template specific.
• Responsible for full cycle implementation of SAP FI/CO/SD projects, taking an active role in all steps such as designing, building, integration and user acceptance testing, cutover, go-live and post go-live support. • Collaborating with business units to identify technical needs and requirements, identifying problematic areas, and implementing strategic solutions in time accordingly. • Established SAP software settings to support specific business rules validations, and default values, ensuring successful delivery of larger engagements with high complexity based on best practices.
• Responsible for full cycle implementation of SAP FI/CO/SD projects, taking an active role in all steps such as designing, building, integration and user acceptance testing, cutover, go-live and post go-live supporting, • Collaborating with business units to identify technical needs and requirements, identifying problematic areas and implementing strategic solutions in time accordingly. • Establishing SAP software settings to support specific business rules validations, and default values, ensuring successful delivery of larger engagements with high complexity based on best practices, • Providing support of SAP infrastructure, technologies, and functionality, including services to upgrade system configuration and functionality due to an SAP system or release upgrade
• As a Member of the Accounting department prepared accounting and financial reports from AS/400-Abakus-. • Conceptual design and full cycle implementation of SAP FI/CO modules. • Prepared User Manual of FI/CO modules. • Make a design of integration of modules. -Such as MM-FI, MM-SD, FI-SD, CO-FI/MM/SD…- • End-user and Key-user Trainings of FI/CO modules.
• As a Member of the Accounting department prepared accounting and financial reports from AS/400-Abakus-. • Conceptual design and full cycle implementation of SAP FI/CO modules. • Prepared User Manual of FI/CO modules. • Make a design of integration of modules. -Such as MM-FI, MM-SD, FI-SD, CO-FI/MM/SD…- • End-user and Key-user Trainings of FI/CO modules.