Seda Sultan ARAL, CPA

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  • Timeline

    Jul 2017 - Oct 2020

    Financial Reporting Specialist

    Insaat Muhendislik Sirketi
    Oct 2020 - Mar 2024

    Assistant Manager, Finance

    REEF
    İstanbul, Türkiye
    Current Company
    Jan 2024 - now

    FinOps Manager - Airties TR

    Airties
  • About me

    FinOps Manager at Airties | CPA | Financial Controlling Expert

  • Education

    • Hacı ömer tarman anadolu lisesi

      2007 - 2011
    • Universität lüneburg

      2014 - 2015
      Wirtschaftswissenschaften erasmus
    • Marmara üniversitesi

      2012 - 2017
      Ekonomi 3.3/4.0

      Activities and Societies: Ekonomi Blimleri Araştırma Topluluğu(EBAT) yönetim kurulu üyesi

  • Experience

    • Insaat muhendislik sirketi

      Jul 2017 - Oct 2020
      Financial reporting specialist

      • Preparing global financial statements (P&L and monthly BS presentation) in accordance with IFRS. Controlling and making reconciliation of those Financial Statements and eventually presenting them to the company Manager.• Preparing yearly budget and making quarter adjustment of the budget.• Assisting manhour pricing period with company Finance Director.• Controlling the month over month (MoM) Actual Financial with Monthly Budget.• Providing business KPI tables such as Liquidation Table to follow up of budget (Liquidation table is calculating by project sold working hours/total working capacity of the company which was the key KPI of the company)• Consolidating the global reports by using Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) System.• Analyzing the reports on Economics point of view, making assumptions with different scenarios(best-worst-neutral) and assist the process of Business decisions making with company general manager and Finance and Administration director.• Responsible to control the accounting department to meet the deadlines of the monthly closing and year end closing activities. • Preparing and controlling the Statement of Contract Billing Report on monthly basis (This table prepared based on each project’s P&L table) Show less

    • Reef

      Oct 2020 - Mar 2024

      • Spearheading initiatives in line with USGAAP to enhance reporting accuracy and compliance.• Driving SaaS business growth through strategic finance partnerships and insightful financial analyses.• Leading process transformation efforts to streamline finance operations and enhance efficiency. It is required for to automatize manual tasks of the specialist to increase efficiency and productivity.• Overseeing financial consolidation processes, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.• Managing team performance by creating “Performance Team Manager”, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and excellence.• Handling complex bank transactions with a focus on accuracy and compliance.• Implementing excel control files robust PO Controllership practices to maintain financial integrity and control. Show less • Monthly, quarterly, yearly PnL analysis in order to give executives a solid base for decision-making process.• Top-down and bottom-up analyzes of monthly PL by unit base, • Preparing monthly fix cost planning by unit base, and presentation of the highlights to many executives within company,• Managing and execution of local budgets by communicating with operation, • Consolidate and analyze COGS, and Capex Budget taking into account company’s fast-changing financial goals and financial standing,• Calculating ROI for various projects' capital expenditures to ensure compliance with specified guardrails with company executives, and assisting various divisions in constructing projects within these guardrails,Consult with executives to guide and influence long term and strategic decision making within the broadest scope of current inflationary era of economics,• Conduct guardrails and setting up a new system about the presentation of Financials.• Assemble and summarize data to structure, ad hoc reports on financial status and risks of the market,• Review overbudget purchase orders within approval process, manage and follow-up the monthly PO process,• Prepare monthly KPI excel dashboard,• Provide creative alternatives and recommendations to reduce costs and improve financial performance by collaborating many departments at the same time, and follow-up the results,• Conduct business studies on past, future and comparative performance and develop forecast models,• Drive process improvement for accounting activities and setting up new system (Coupa). Show less

      • Assistant Manager, Finance

        Jan 2023 - Mar 2024
      • Senior Analyst, FP&A

        Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
      • Finans Analisti

        Oct 2020 - Aug 2022
    • Airties

      Jan 2024 - now
      Finops manager - airties tr

      Manage a team of three, responsible for treasury, Financial Controlling, and Finance - Accounting coordination for better quality and accurate reporting under tight deadlines.Completed succesfully the yearly IFRS audit for the group company's first year after being acquired by a private equity company which changes the head quarter of the company from Turkey to Europe, France.Oversee financials consolidation for 10 entities across Europe, Asia, and the US, with all but one (Turkey) managed by outsourcing companies in their respective countries.Responsible for automating manual tasks by creating Power BI dashboards and utilizing Microsoft Power Automate.Currently developing automated processes for financials presentations by using Power BI, RPA and Microsoft Excel VBA (Macros).Support the accounting team to improve bookkeeping quality and enhance internal controls. Show less

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Smmm

      Ismmmo
      Mar 2022