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Istanbul, Turkey

Istanbul, Turkey

İstanbul

• Coordinating business development projects for all countries, such as greenfield or brownfield investments, getting license for production, sales and distribution of 3rd party brands, granting license for production.
• Defining the proper business structure from operational, financial, taxation and legal points of view
• Conducting feasibility studies for the projects and presenting the outcome to relevant parties
• Coordinating and leading other departments to secure proper evaluation of the project and relevant information flow
• Managing relationship with the counter parties and negotiating commercial and legal terms
• Supporting the integration period upon investment and ensuring proper handing over of the project to operation team

Istanbul, Turkey

• Being responsible for all P&L items and cash flow with a team of 3
• Animating company financial performance cycle through monthly forecasting process and monitor risks and opportunities
• Managing Danone Group Rolling Forecast process and contribute to deliver commitments supported with detailed financial analysis
• Managing the relations with Global / Regional teams
• Ensuring completeness, accuracy and timely delivery of business reporting
• Co-piloting the organization through business partnering responsibilities with sales and marketing teams

Istanbul, Turkey

• Being responsible for “Cost Controlling” team of 2 people, "Account Payables" team of 7 people and a “Supply Chain Financial Controller”.
• Leading all supply chain budget process; monitoring and reporting budget/actual variances
• Initiating group NWC reporting, setting targets and identifying improvement areas
• Building Account Payables reports across the group
• Creating Evyap supply chain “Chart of Authority” and ensuring the compliance
• Leading month-end closing activities in SAP FI and CO

Istanbul, Turkey

• Being supply chain financial controller for 4 plants in Tuzla-Turkey (Bar Soap, Cosmetics, Diapers, Aerosol), as a start-up position reporting to Group CFO & Supply Chain President
• Establishing and leading “Productivity & Cost Saving Program” across the company
• Implementing inventory reports and leading a project to optimize inventory levels.
• Budgeting and monitoring capex projects, making feasibility analysis to measure ROI
• Being responsible for supply chain budgeting process
• Building a set of reporting tools such as supply chain KPI dashboard, purchase price variance analyses, COGS variance analyses, GPM variance analyses, opex analyses, scrap rates, inventory follow-up

Istanbul, Turkey

• Building a new cost distribution methodology in order to assign more accurate costs on products that are produced in chemical factory
• Constructing an accurate cost forecast system for budget period and simulations of different scenarios
• Creating cost analyse methodologies with the aim of minimising the production costs
• Cost budgeting of the chemical factory according to new methodology created
• Budget planning of the company in-line with the group targets, in cooperation with whole departments
• Creating new formats for reporting of cost, profitability, sales and variance analyses on the bases of products, regions and categories

Istanbul, Turkey

• Analysing and evaluating the costs of the engine mountings, pedal brackets, gear box commands, knobs, water hoses, air hoses, rubber sealings for global PSA strategic projects
• Orienting R&D engineers on designing and development phases with the aim of design to cost and fulfill a road map in cross functional teams
• Determining components target prices for Project Teams and Purchasing Department
• Participating negotiations with suppliers in order to help Purchasing Department
• Performing suppliers competitiveness audits and to realize benchmark studies
• Updating continuously the cost calculations tools and process in order to develop PSA purchasing and design performance

Bachelor'S Degree, Industrial Engineering

Education record

Education record