The Finance Manager – Türkiye provides strategic and operational financial leadership for the company’s Türkiye business. The role is responsible for safeguarding financial integrity, enabling sustainable growth, strengthening governance and controls, and ensuring high-quality financial planning, reporting, cash management, tax compliance, statutory compliance, and decision support for the country leadership team.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as the senior finance partner to the Türkiye leadership team, translating business strategy into financial plans, priorities, and measurable outcomes.
- Lead annual budgeting, periodic forecasting, long-range planning, scenario analysis, and performance reviews for the Türkiye business.
- Provide timely, accurate, and decision-focused management reporting, including analysis of revenue, margins, operating expenses, working capital, cash flow, and business risks.
- Oversee month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing activities, ensuring accurate records, reconciliations, consolidation submissions, and adherence to Group reporting requirements.
- Ensure compliance with applicable Turkish statutory accounting, tax, invoicing, payroll-finance interfaces, audit, and regulatory obligations, engaging qualified local advisers where required.
- Maintain a strong internal control environment, including clear delegation of authority, appropriate segregation of duties, and audit-ready documentation.
- Lead treasury and liquidity management, including cash forecasting, banking relationships, payment governance, collections oversight, and foreign-exchange exposure monitoring.
- Partner with Sales, Operations, Legal, HR, Procurement, and other functions on pricing, customer and vendor terms, investments, contracts, and business cases.
- Drive working-capital improvements through disciplined management of receivables, payables, inventory (where applicable), billing accuracy, and commercial follow‑up.
- Identify financial and operational risks, **escalate** material issues promptly, and coordinate practical mitigation plans with relevant stakeholders.
- Lead, coach, and develop the Türkiye finance team, establishing clear accountabilities, strengthening technical capabilities, and fostering a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.
- Improve finance processes, data quality, reporting automation, and the effective use of ERP, planning, and business intelligence tools.
- Coordinate with Regional and Group Finance to ensure alignment, transparency, timely submissions, and implementation of finance policies and transformation initiatives.
- Accurate and timely financial close, reporting, forecasts, and statutory submissions.
- Clear performance insights and recommendations for country and regional leadership.
- Robust cash‑flow oversight, working‑capital discipline, and financial risk management.
- Effective internal controls, audit readiness, and timely remediation of control gaps.
- A capable, engaged, and business‑oriented country finance team.
- Continuous improvement in finance processes, systems, and management information.
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
- A recognized professional finance or accounting qualification is preferred.
- Significant progressive finance leadership experience, including responsibility for planning, reporting, controls, cash management, statutory compliance, and business partnering.
- Experience leading a country finance function in Türkiye and operating within a multinational or matrix organization is strongly preferred.
- Sound knowledge of Turkish statutory accounting and tax requirements, with the judgment to engage specialist advisers on complex matters.
- Demonstrated experience managing audits, improving controls, leading teams, and supporting business growth and transformation.
- Fluency in Turkish and strong professional English are required.
Skills and Competencies
- Strategic financial leadership and strong commercial judgment.
- High standards of integrity, governance, confidentiality, and accountability.
- Expertise in financial planning, analysis, modelling, and executive‑level communication.
- Strong knowledge of accounting, internal controls, treasury, tax, and statutory reporting.
- Ability to influence across functions and organizational levels within a multicultural matrix environment.
- Strong risk awareness, problem‑solving capability, prioritization, and disciplined execution.
- Effective people leadership, coaching, collaboration, and change management skills.
- Advanced proficiency in ERP systems, Microsoft Excel, and reporting and analytics tools.