Role Purpose

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.

Key Deliverables

• 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.

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