Alper KAKICI

Enhanced personal and professional growth through a year-long residency in Bournemouth, United Kingdom. Immersed in a new cultural environment, honed language skills, and gained insights into diverse perspectives. Cultivated adaptability, independence, and cross-cultural communication abilities, fostering a global mindset.

· Perform risk assessments to understand risk level, significance and scope.

· Keep up to date with, and understand, relevant laws and regulations.

· Monitor compliance with laws, regulations and internal policies.

· Ensure that the findings are recorded and followed up with management so that issues can be rectified.

· Investigate irregularities and non-compliance issues, highlight or escalate areas of concern.

· Assist in the gathering of internal information in response to regulatory requests.

· Maintain fraud analysis models to improving efficiency and effectiveness of company systems.

· Monitor real time queues and identify high risk transactions within the business portfolio and ensuring that appropriate actions are taken to mitigate fraud.

· Resolve queued transactions within service level agreements to reducing potential revenue losses.

· Interact with other banks and customers to validating information and to confirming or cancelling authorizations.

· Collate data and producing suspicious activity reports for senior managers and stakeholders.

· Recognize patterns of fraud and suggesting new methods of detection, mitigation and prevention.

· Recommend anti-fraud processes for changing transaction patterns and trends; assisting with the implementation of new processes and software solutions for fraud detection, prevention and reporting activities.

· Work with various departments to compile data necessary to analyze and determine operational and financial efficiency.

· Review operational and financial records and reports and made recommendation for improvements.

· Support the implementation of the finance strategy and control framework for the company.

· Assisted in controlling company’s budgeting process & ensuring full implementation and monitoring of the agreed budget

· Participated month-end control process, performed analytical review of financial statements and prepared monthly financial reports and statements.

· Assisted in monitoring any discrepancies in payment and charges made on credit cards; prepared accounting reports to be presented to senior management

· Tracked all payments made for tax preparation and followed up on returns

· Ensured the accuracy of financial statements by reviewing the final figures on the statements were correct

· Helped organizing financial filing system and ensuring all clients receive their financial statements on time

· Assisted in balancing the office/department budget