Senior Finance Analyst - Finance

What you’ll do:

Primary Function:
A key member of the plant and region/division finance team. The position reports directly to the FP&A Manager, and creates a bridge in between accounting and FP&A team. 

This role is crucial in managing the financial performance of the Ankara (Sincan & Temelli) plants including analysing forecasts and actual performance, business drivers, and operational metrics. The FP&A Analyst ensures assets assigned by the corporation are adequately protected and provide operations management with financial guidance necessary to produce the expected return on those assets.

FP&A Functions: 
1.Support the planning and forecasting process to guide business units towards clear targets, ensuring consistency and alignment across the organization. 
2.Analyse and interpret financial data related to operational costs, providing valuable insights to the FP&A Manager to aid in decision-making regarding cost efficiency, pricing strategy, and overall financial performance.
3. Build cross-departmental relationships by working closely with various departments like Zone Controlling, Accounting, Sales, Operations, SCM, and HR. Understand the needs of these teams and provide tailored financial insights. Collaborate with functions to deliver timely, accurate, and insightful financial reporting, planning, forecasting, and analysis.
4. Monitor revenue recognition, cost allocations, and margins.
5. Prepare and analyse financial data and information for accuracy, consistency, and transparency. Maintain the integrity of financial reports prepared by the plant.
6. Ensure compliance with corporate policy, including SOX     

Accounting Functions:
1. Managing daily outbound by creating deliveries for picking and packing and creating customer invoices.
2. Reporting and controlling monthly outbound freight cost
3. Creating and sharing with Sales Department weekly and monthly invoice reports.
4. Giving support to local Tax team to have accurate monthly reporting 

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in finance or business administration
Minimum of 5 years experience in similar position
Minimum of 2 years experience in a manufacturing environment 

Skills:

• Fluency in English - must have
• Proficiency in US GAAP reporting guidelines and SOX framework.
• Familiarity with SAP, and other finance IT systems including planning and data/business warehouse tools.
• Experience with Power-BI is a plus.
• Advanced Excel knowledge
• Data-savvy, with the ability to use and interpret data effectively.
• Self-starter who takes full ownership of tasks and drives them to completion
• Accurate, reliable and proactive
• Having strong curiosity on how complex manufacturing structures work and connect with each other.
• Analytical and structured thinking, being able to break complex problems into drivers.
• Having operational mindset and being able to push challenges with operational teams.
• Attention to detail and big-picture orientation, driving issues to resolution rather than waiting.