Fatih Karakaş

• Leading all supply chain and marketing budget/forecast process; monitoring and reporting variances of the category.

• Analyze end to end cost performance, business profitability and inventory levels based on country & categories/SKUs to identify issues, report on performance, and drive continuous improvement.

• Conducting feasibility studies for greenfield or brownfield investments and presenting the outcome to relevant parties.

• Follow-up of A&P spend and ensure the spend is within budgets and provide the optimum return on marketing investment.

• Partner with marketing teams for NPD launches / market expansion / category expansion etc.

• Drive the launch discussions from finance angle and ensure assumptions in the financials are reasonable.

• Lead governance around SKU Rationalization.

• Drive Margin and Profit Improvements, Cost Saving projects and operational efficiencies through cross-functional collaboration. Lead certain Cost Saving projects to successful execution.

• Provide financial information, analysis, and support to various stakeholders (Category Leaders, Plant Management teams, Marketing and R&D) as required.

• Build strong working relationships with Marketing, R&D, Production, Planning and Purchasing to identify risks and opportunities.

• Advising on financial implications and consequences of business decisions and communicating financial data to leadership team.

• Improve tools and systems in order to increase efficiency and accuracy on reporting, budgeting and analysis.

• Lead projects to improve efficiencies and improvements to ways of working and embrace a mindset of continuous improvement

• Consolidation of annual group budget of Evyap Holding

• Monthly SAP PA Closing

• Monthly Consolidated Sales Report

• Monthly Consolidated P&L reporting and variance analysis

• Monthly Consolidated NWC Reporting

• Elimination of in-group profits on products that come from intercompany sales

• Reflection of new organizational structure into SAP and adjusting usual reporting system for current structure

• Taking part in a partial demerger and building an SAP CO module with IT team for new entity

• Maintenance and development of SAP reports

• Forecasting the costs all the year round

• Variance analysis of budget vs. actual and presenting them to top management

• Preparing additional reports and analysis that top management needs • Leading I/CO pricing process

• Leading the financial part of stocktaking and its results

• Providing domestic and overseas financial units with financial supports

• Leading and training of coworkers and supporting their progress

• Calculating spot costs of existing products

• Creating and editing of material master data in CO

• Defining singular standard prices for materials in SAP

• Consolidation of supply chain expenses in budget process

• Auditing production units