ÖZLEM DURBAKAYIM
Istanbul
Summary
Dynamic Financial Affairs Manager with a proven track record at Eugen Forschner GmbH, excelling in financial planning and analysis. Expert in risk management and regulatory compliance, I drive process improvements and foster client relationships, ensuring timely reporting and strategic decision-making. Committed to enhancing profitability and team leadership in fast-paced environments.
Overview
29
29
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Financial Affairs Manager
Eugen Forschner GmbH
01.2023 - Current
- Manage all financial functions, including budgeting, forecasting, accounting, reporting, treasury, tax, and audit
- General responsibility of Legal and IT
- Manage relationships with tax advisors and auditors
- Lead audits, prepare necessary data, and act as the primary point of contact for all audit-related matters
- Analyse financial statements and provide regular reports to senior management
- Coordinate accurate and timely submission of tax declarations and other legal obligations
- Lead financial risk management, including insurance, compliance, and regulatory reporting
- Manage cash flow and proactively identify and mitigate financial risks, cost and working capital management
- Ensure timely and accurate preparation of financial statements and reports in compliance with regulatory and accounting standards.
- Maintain strong relationships with banks, audit firms and official institutions
- Continuously improve the company's accounting systems and financial processes
- Provide strategic financial analysis and recommendations to support executive decision-making
- Lead process improvement projects, including system implementations
Tax and Audit Manager
Özbek CPA
01.2022 - 01.2023
- Generate new business opportunities and build client networks and relationships
- Manage positive working relationships with clients with the intention to exceed client expectations.
- Leading day to day operation of foreign clients (via e-mail, conference & video calls, meetings)
- To prepare, apply and follow VAT refunding for the clients
- Writing the reports for VAT refund, DİİB and DİİB closing, Company Income Tax Report for Sworn CPA
- Develop and maintain productive working relationships with clients
- Report writing for Audit committees and management.
- Performing audits in accordance with the International Standards (Tax, IFRS)
- Carrying out special audit and consultancy requests and investigations as requested.
- Making financial analysis for new investments and preparing financial due diligence reports
- Giving consultancy for the incentives for startups
- Serve the client within the standards set by engagement management and to meet client needs by acting with a sense of urgency, practicality, and integrity.
- Develop people through effectively supervising, coaching, and mentoring all levels of staff
- Direct staff as a leader to provide exceptional multifunctional and global services to the client
Accounting Manager
Hunca Kozmetik Yatırım Holding A.Ş.
01.2021 - 12.2021
- Supervision and managing general management and factory accounting teams (Hunca Kozmetik San. Hunca Ambalaj, Huncalife (network marketing company), Hunca Mağazacılık, Hunca Dış Ticaret)
- Preparing upper management monthly reports, preparing reports from SAP
- Coordinating the tax issues and the tax auditing and monthly VAT tax returns from export (stamp tax, withholding tax, VAT, VAT 2, GEKAP, ÖTV, BA-BS and corporate tax)
- Cooperate with public accounting firm, consultants, and support to external audit company
- Overall control and responsibility for stock management, sales, COGS, import and export of the company with the logistics team.
Accounting and Finance Manager
Tiens İç ve Dış Tic.Ltd.Şti.
01.2018 - 12.2018
- Preparing the budget, forecasts and financial analysis of business performance
- Overall management of finance and accounting functions that include accounting, payroll, finance, cash flow, treasury planning and P&L management
- Managing cash flow of the company and leading local and international bank relations
- Preparing one year-three years and five years plan with general manager
- Liquidity planning, management of working capital
- Coordinating all the accounting activities in accordance with local legislation that maintain the company’s operations
- Implementation of e-invoicing
- Overall control and responsibility for stock management of the company with the logistics team.
- Managing the A/R processes and ensuring that receivables are managed in line with company targets and KPI’s
- Standard conditions and local implementation of necessary legal procedures, ensuring all work is done in conjunction with the company’s processes and policies
- Preparation of monthly salary pay slips, calculation of net salary, insurance, deductions, periodic declarations such as Social Security Institution (SSI) declaration and tax returns, preparation of payroll list and related reports
Accounting and Finance Manager
Adeo Maya Yapı Marketleri A.Ş. (Leroy Merlin)
01.2012 - 12.2016
- Supervision and Managing Accounting and Finance Team
- Doing the mapping between TCOA and French accounts
- Tax Declaration Supervision & Control
- Monthly – weekly General TB Control
- Technical Bankruptcy Calculations, Bookings, Management of working capital
- Coordinating audits and related matters with internal and external auditors
- Project Supervision (IBM New Cash Line, Phenix Migration, B2B, Printing of Legal Books from Oracle etc)
- Implementation of e-invoicing system
- Monthly Reporting (Magnitude & CONSO)
- Business Objects reports
- Stock (COGS) controlling
- Payroll Calculation and Booking & Control of TB
- AP/AR controlling
- Phenix (Validation of Creation of Juridical and Commercial Suppliers)
- Purchase Order Approvals
- Month – End Closing Transactions (Revaluations, Accruals of Recurrent Expenses etc)
- Preparing all financial statements
- Managing all Bank Relations
- Bank Instructions
- Daily Payment Instructions (Exceptional Payments not waiting for Payment Date)
- Payments Control & Approval (Supplier – Expense – Advance – Interest – Loan)
- Managing Loans and Credits (Intercompany Loans, Bank Credits, Credit and Loan Payments, Interest calculations and All Controls, Reconciliations with HQ and banks
- Treasury Reports (Monthly Treasury Presentation, Cash flow, Plan Treso)
- Store – Bank Requirements (Instalment Numbers, POS Needs etc)
CFO
Met Global Turizm A.Ş.(Tatil.com)
01.2012 - 12.2012
- Managing all finance (7 colleague with the manager) and accounting (18 colleague with the manager) team
- Creating all the accounting and finance procedures
- Maximize the profitability
- Integration of KPI management system for the Finance and Accounting Departments
- Structuring Performance valuation criteria for Finance and Accounting Team
- Integration of the Accounting System (Sunsystem) with Backoffice System
- Preparing upper management reports (Daily Cash Flow, Monthly Budget, Sales Analysis, Profit Analysis, Receivable and Payable report, Monthly B2B Customer Risk Analysis, etc.)
- Managing payables and collection of receivables with the managers
- Organizing all the bank relations
- Analysing financial statements
Accounting, Finance and Payroll Manager
Deichmann Ayakkabıcılık San.ve Tic.Ltd.Şti.
01.2007 - 12.2011
- Managing all financial, accounting, multi-book accounting (double entry), personnel accounting (payroll calculation) activities
- Finalised the implementation of SAP with my team
- Doing the mapping
- Monthly closings and financial statement preparation, including balance sheet reconciliation and expense account analysis
- Coordinating the tax issues and the tax auditing and monthly tax returns, prepare tax refunds
- Control and approval of all contracts
- Coordination of General assembly documents
- Custom clearance control and approvals
- Communicate with regulatory agencies such as tax bureau
- Cooperate with public accounting firm, consultants and support to external audit company
- All bank relations and payments
- Coordinate insurance policies with insurance broker and making the contracts with other companies also
- Prepare monthly management reporting, preparing the reports in SAP according to German GAAP
- Filling the budget file and sending to Germany
- Reporting to the General Manager in Turkey and dotted line to the CFO in Germany
Senior Accountant
Peugeot Otomotiv Pazarlama A.Ş.
01.2003 - 12.2007
- Opening of accounts and authority delegation
- Controlling of fixed assets input & output and their amortization
- Preparing collection and payment reports according to due date
- Revaluation of the relating accounts for the inflation accounting
- Reconciliation of customer and bank accounts
- Doing the tax declarations about (VAT, Withholding Tax Return, Stamp …)
- To make all kind of bookings
- Checking the analysis of the accounts (expense-selling-stocks) working with analysis
- Auditing the dealers according to Peugeot procedures
- At the end of the month, creating stock and selling reports
- At the end of the month, checking the trial balance, P&L and balance sheet
- Translating the created stock-selling reports, P&L and balance sheet into French system (SUIG) and reporting to France centre in the required deadline
- Reporting the month-end reports as a powerpoint presentation by internal and external
Accounting Specialist
Ericsson İletişim A.Ş.
01.2000 - 12.2002
- Allocated daily, weekly, and monthly transactions
- Responsible for account receivables and payables
- Controlling the customs clearances and their invoices
- Closing the end of month account, clear with banks and firms
- Prepared end of month reports
Probationer in Auditing
Türkerler Yeminli Mali Müşavirlik
01.2000 - 04.2000
Probationer in Marketing
Eta Etiketleme Teknik Araçlar San.Tic.A.Ş.
01.2000 - 02.2000
Probationer
Büyükşehir Belediyesi Şehir ve Bölge Planlama Müdürlüğü
01.1997 - 02.1997
Education
Business Administration -
Anadolu University Business Administration Faculty
Istanbul01.2012
Certificate Program in Management -
University of İstanbul Institute of Business Administration
Istanbul01.2000
Geophysical Engineering -
University of İstanbul Faculty of Engineering
Istanbul01.1999
High School Diploma -
Ankara Gazi Anatolian High School
Ankara01.1994
Skills
- Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)
- Risk Management
- Tax Compliance
- Budgeting and Forecasting
- Audit Leadership
- Treasury Management
- Client Relationship Management
- Strategic Planning
- Regulatory Reporting
- Process Improvement
- Team Leadership
- Financial Policy Formulation
- ERP Implementations
- Regulatory Compliance
- Cash Flow Management
- Training and Development
Affiliations
- Geophysical Engineering Room, 1997
- Tema Vakfı, 1999 - Present
Certification
- Certificate of Achievement in CFO Training, Laba Turkey — Issued June 2025
- Certificate of Ericsson University about the Way Cash Flows, Ericsson University — Issued June 2002
Languages
Turkish
First Language
English
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2
German
Beginner
A1
French
Beginner
A1
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Financial Affairs Manager
Eugen Forschner GmbH
01.2023 - Current
Tax and Audit Manager
Özbek CPA
01.2022 - 01.2023
Accounting Manager
Hunca Kozmetik Yatırım Holding A.Ş.
01.2021 - 12.2021
Accounting and Finance Manager
Tiens İç ve Dış Tic.Ltd.Şti.
01.2018 - 12.2018
Accounting and Finance Manager
Adeo Maya Yapı Marketleri A.Ş. (Leroy Merlin)
01.2012 - 12.2016
CFO
Met Global Turizm A.Ş.(Tatil.com)
01.2012 - 12.2012
Accounting, Finance and Payroll Manager
Deichmann Ayakkabıcılık San.ve Tic.Ltd.Şti.
01.2007 - 12.2011
Senior Accountant
Peugeot Otomotiv Pazarlama A.Ş.
01.2003 - 12.2007
Accounting Specialist
Ericsson İletişim A.Ş.
01.2000 - 12.2002
Probationer in Auditing
Türkerler Yeminli Mali Müşavirlik
01.2000 - 04.2000
Probationer in Marketing
Eta Etiketleme Teknik Araçlar San.Tic.A.Ş.
01.2000 - 02.2000
Probationer
Büyükşehir Belediyesi Şehir ve Bölge Planlama Müdürlüğü
01.1997 - 02.1997
Business Administration -
Anadolu University Business Administration Faculty
Certificate Program in Management -
University of İstanbul Institute of Business Administration
Geophysical Engineering -
University of İstanbul Faculty of Engineering
High School Diploma -
Ankara Gazi Anatolian High School