F&A - Senior Specialist

Duracell; Fatih; On-site; TRY 1,882,732 - 2,958,579; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Attractive salary

Competitive benefits package

Professional growth opportunities

Well-developed company culture

Job summary

Duracell is seeking an experienced Finance professional to join its Finance team in Fatih, Turkey. This mid-level role entails responsibilities across commercial finance, financial planning, and compliance.

The ideal candidate should possess strong analytical skills, a background of 6 to 7 years in finance, and a degree in Finance/Accounting. You will play a key role in supporting decision-making and financial reporting.

The position offers a hybrid work model and competitive salary, alongside opportunities for professional growth within a stable international company.

Qualifications

• 6 to 7 years of professional experience in Finance/Accounting/Controlling or audit.
• FMCG experience is a plus.
• English fluency is required.

Responsibilities

• Managing Month End closing process and variance analysis.
• Developing and simplifying reporting tools using Power BI.
• Ensuring legal entity statutory compliance and tax filings.

Skills

Analytic thinking

Microsoft 365 (especially Excel)

Experience in SAP

Experience in PBCS

Experience in BlackLine

Education

University degree in Finance & Accounting

Job description

We are looking for an experienced Finance professional to join Duracell's Finance team in a mid-level role with broad scope across commercial finance, financial planning, and legal entity compliance.

You will partner closely with Sales, Marketing, and cross‑functional stakeholders to support business decision‑making, drive forecast accuracy, and ensure robust financial reporting. A shared responsibility for Türkiye statutory compliance and local banking operations is also part of the role.

Ideal for a Finance or Accounting professional with 6 to 7 years of experience who is analytical, hands‑on, and comfortable working in a dynamic FMCG environment.

Additional Info

• Schedule: Full-time
• Modality: Hybrid

Responsibilities

Business Analysis and Support:

• Securing compliance with the Trade Fund Management process, system validation, accrual creation.
• Financially qualifying product launches and white‑space expansions, analyzing customer profitability, pricing adherence levels, and Trade Terms Structure.
• Leading Promotional Activity ROI Calculations. Developing and maintaining ROI analytical tools. Capture key learnings and recommending optimization opportunities on future spending plans.
• Developing ad‑hoc data‑based analysis to support decision‑making process and statutory reporting.
• Preparing periodic customer profitability analysis, Quad Analysis, making recommendations on profitability interventions or portfolio simplification opportunities.
• Maintain price master data and customer hierarchies across systems.
• Working closely with Business Leaders and other functions (Sales, Marketing, Product Supply, Order Management, Accounting, E&A Finance Community).

Managerial Reporting:

• Own Month End closing process: preparation of Month End entries (accruals, GL reclasses), analysing actuals variances vs. forecast, verifying actuals for accuracy, mix analysis, populating bridges vs. previous periods.
• Providing monthly reporting package – Sales Report, Overheads Report, Marketing Activities Report.
• Developing and simplifying locally deployed reporting tools, training organization on Power BI reports.
• Co‑own and lead annual budget and quarterly forecast process, verifying and challenging inputs from multi‑functional stakeholders to ensure forecast accuracy.
• Supporting the preparation of short, medium and long‑term financial planning. Consolidating the inputs from different functions, challenging, and analysing the underlying assumptions.
• Reporting and top‑level adjusting the financial plans in PBCS (Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service).
• Load and maintain forecasting system Oracle PBCS (Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service).

Türkiye Legal entity operations and compliance (shared responsibility):

• Legal entity statutory compliance and tax filings (e‑ledger, VAT, etc).
• Local banking operations (payroll, importations, travel and expense, intercompany payments).
• Cash flow analysis.
• US GAAP to TR GAAP calculations.

Qualifications

Profile of the Candidate:

• University degree, preferably in Finance & Accounting.
• 6 to 7 years maximum of professional experience in the Finance/Accounting/Controlling department or audit. FMCG experience is a plus.

English Fluency is a requirement.

• Good knowledge of Microsoft 365 (especially Excel).
• Experience in SAP, PBCS, BlackLine.
• CIMA or other relevant qualification desired.
• Analytic thinking, result orientation, ability to work in a fast‑paced environment.
• Ability to build strong relationships.

What’s on offer:

• Employment in a stable international company with an established position in the market.
• Attractive salary and competitive benefits package.
• Highly developed company culture.
• Professional growth opportunities.