Istanbul, Türkiye
I am a finance professional with 20+years of experience specializing in Treasury, Cash Flow Management, Budgeting, Risk Management, Managing Banking Relationships, Investor Relations, Corporate Governance, Team Building and Development at retail, textile, manufacturing and holding companies. I have lead and participated in strategic projects. -Transformation Program - Marketplace project - ERP implementation
Directly reporting to CFO, responsible for 4 functions; Treasury •Responsible for the development of short and long-term strategies and work to execute all cash and treasury business initiatives. •Lead cash-flow analysis and forecasting, anticipating company’s daily and future cash needs, creating effective funding •Manage cash balance and provide management with the necessary information needed to make critical business decisions •Manage the relationships with banks, insurance companies and rating agencies •Launch promotional credit card and consumer finance campaigns with banks in offline&online channel for increasing sales •Oversee risk management and foreign currency exposures and implement hedging programs for foreign exchange exposures •Leverage industry research and stay abreast of peer and industry trends •Participate in marketplace project as a team leader responsible for integrating payment providers for online channel . Participate in transformation project as a team leader responsible for minimizing financial costs Investor Relations •Build, maintain, and manage relationships with investors and participate in calls and meetings with investors and analysts. •Manage activities including the preparation of investor presentations, manage the investor relations portion of the company's website ensuring that all disclosures, presentations, and company information is accurate and current. •Ensure compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements •Reporter of Corporate Governance Committee Purchasing •Manage procurement of consumable materials and services/facialities •Maintain contract management, price negotiation and budget process İklimsa Risk Management •Responsible for the İklimsa receivables risk management process •Manage İklimsa dealers credit limitations, analyze the aging data and identify at-risk dealers •Follow up letter of guarantees received and the pipeline progress in line with collections
Treasury • Cultivate and maintain relationships with banking partners • Prepare annual cash flow budgets of the Company and Germany, England and Italy sales offices • Monitor financial markets, follow up foreign exchange and currency risks of company daily and prepare daily hedge reports to top management • Prepare ad-hoc and monthly reports for Board of Directors • Actively participate in the implementation of new ERP system (IAS) Risk Management • Plan and organize yearly functional risk assessment studies to perform risk identification, risk prioritization and monthly follow-up of risks within the Company Investor Relations • Analyze information about the market and provide relevant information to executive management • Develop and advance the information available to investors via the company’s IR website. • Create quarterly investor presentations and the Early Detection of Risks Committee and Corporate Governance Committee presentations • Conduct the company's relations with regulatory institutions such as the CMB and BIST
Financial Planning and Control Group Leader, Finance • Prepare short and long-term business plans in alignment with the company’s strategic plans • Perform budget vs actual variance analysis monthly • Analyze operational results of the company and provide financial leadership for business decisions for the company Senior Finance Specialist, Treasury • Manage the day-to-day operations of the treasury function, cash management and bank relationships. • Analysis of the current and forecast net working capital requirement of the company • Monitor the rolling FX exposures, and implement FX hedging accordingly, within the established Company FX policy
• Prepare the company’s annual revenue budget and 10-year business plan in coordination with Executives and Senior Management Team members • Provide analytical support to marketing team by analyzing key performance indicators and generate comprehensive scenario models in dynamic competitive market • Prepare and analyze performance-related sales&marketing and management reports monthly