Melike Seyda Dogan

Finance, Planning & Accounting Director at Token Financial Technologies - Koç Group

Türkiye

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Experience

  • Token Finansal Teknolojiler (Full-time · 3 yrs 10 mos)
    • Finance, Planning & Accounting Director
      Oct 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 9 mos

      - Oversee the timely and accurate preparation of all financial management reports, ensuring compliance with internal and external standards; manage and optimize month-end closing processes. - Lead annual and interim budgeting and forecasting processes on both consolidated and standalone basis. - Evaluate feasibility and financial viability of new business initiatives and investments. - Drive strategic financial planning, including Long-Term Planning (LTP). - Manage tax planning, filings, and refund processes; ensure tax optimization through R&D incentives and government grants. - Control and review monthly and annual financial reports in compliance with R&D and Technopark regulations. - Review consolidated statutory audit reports in accordance with the Turkish Commercial Code (TCC) and CMB (Capital Markets Board) consolidated financial statements; coordinate and monitor independent audit processes. - Ensure the execution and follow-up of General Assembly and Board of Directors resolutions and processes. - Oversee inventory management aligned with production and sales plans; control and approve cost accounting and product/device pricing processes. - Manage and monitor expense and revenue items to ensure financial efficiency. - Supervise cash flow planning and liquidity management, ensuring funding availability and cash security. - Manage accounts receivable risk and trade credit insurance processes. - Monitor and control import and export financial processes. - Lead financial transformation and digitalization initiatives. - Oversee payroll operations and salary payments; review and approve Withholding and Social Security Declarations (Form 1003A). - Ensure the preparation and control of TurkStat (TÜİK) statistical reports.

    • Finance, Planning & Accounting Manager
      Sep 2022 - Oct 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos

      Managing standalone and consolidated budgets, forecasts, and actual financial statements, including management reporting and SPK & TTK financial reports audited by independent auditors. Overseeing Tax and R&D incentive processes, Accounting (General Ledger & Cost / Manufacturing Accounting), Finance (Treasury & Risk Management), and Payroll operations, ensuring full regulatory compliance and financial efficiency.

  • Borusan Holding (7 yrs 10 mos)
    • Financial Affairs Unit Manager
      Mar 2018 - Sep 2022 · 4 yrs 7 mos

      - Preparation of budgets and quarterly forecasts of Borusan Holding, a publicly traded company and other companies. Preparation of actual budget comparative financial statements. - Ensuring that operational expense and capital expense controls comply with the budget and forecast - Making derivative transaction records. - Financial income and expense controls - Preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual management reports of group companies - Preparation of weekly cash flow statement - Preparation of financial risk reports - Preparation of annual activity reports to be presented to the General Assembly - Preparation of Corporate Tax Return and transfer pricing report - Control of monthly and quarterly taxes before they are accrued - Performing period-end year closing transactions - Approval for obtaining e-Ledger control certificates - Creation of aging reports and risk detection - Control of supplier payment lists - Providing support in company mergers, type changes and liquidation procedures - All transactions of group companies regarding official institutions and independent auditing organizations monitoring

    • Financial Affairs Senior Specialist
      Dec 2014 - Mar 2018 · 3 yrs 4 mos

      - Preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual declarations and receipt of their accruals - Transfer Pricing report preparation and reconciliation - Carrying out SAP-TRM transactions on the financing side, checking bank accounts with records - Preparing supplier payment lists and making payments - Preparation and sending of e-invoices - Preparation of e-Ledger and obtaining certificates - Making end-of-term records - Recording supplier invoices and personnel expenses - BA-BS Reconciliation process tracking and notifications - Follow-up of incentive and offset transactions from official institutions - Preparation of budgets and forecasts of companies operating in the energy sector and serving in the insurance brokerage sector, and preparation of monthly comparative IFRS Reports

  • Senior Financial Controller at Betek Boya ve Kimya Sanayi A.Ş. (Filli Boya - Fawori - Alligator - Alsecco)
    Jun 2012 - Dec 2014 · 2 yrs 7 mos

    - Preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual declarations and receipt of their accruals - Carrying out transactions subject to VAT Refund and monitoring the refund process - Preparation of SCT Declaration and follow-up of the refund process - Preparation of Transfer Pricing report - Control of accounting records of import and export transactions - Making fixed asset records, monitoring the fixed asset movement table - Control of cost accounting closing records - Recording loan and financial leasing transactions - Communication with public administration, legal and independent auditing organizations

  • Senior Tax Auditor at Mercek Bağımsız Denetim Yeminli Mali Müşavirlik A.Ş.
    Jun 2007 - Aug 2012 · 5 yrs 3 mos

    - Corporate tax full certification audit and reporting - Transfer pricing reporting - Preparation of VAT return reports and process follow-up - Preparation of capital determination reports and activity reports - Carrying out transactions such as company merger, division, change of type