Finance and Accounting Senior Specialist

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.

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ADDITIONAL INFO

• Schedule: Full-time
• Modality: Hybrid 
• Location based: Istanbul (Turkey)

Profile of the Candidate:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field; MBA or professional finance certification is a plus
• Minimum 6+ years of experience in FP&A, commercial finance, or business partnering roles 
• Proven track record in financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and trade/commercial analytics.
• Experience business partnering with commercial, sales, or marketing teams across multiple markets or regions.
• Prior experience in FMCG, retail, or multi-country/multi-market environments is strongly preferred.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate financial data into actionable commercial insights.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel; experience with BI tools, SAP, Blackline, PBSC
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence non-finance business partners.
• Fluent English; additional regional languages are a plus

What’s on offer:

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

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), Analyzing 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

Financial Planning:

• 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 the short, medium and long-term financial planning. Consolidating the inputs from different functions, challenging, and analyzing 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