Ozlem D.

Gun + Partners owns two legal entities w/ 4 offices located in 3 cities and also heads and operates 4 law related Associations. Apart from Associations, only Gun+Partners currently employs 150+ employees and it's the leader law office for patent & trademark practice areas in Turkey. The customer profile are mainly composed of HQ of worldwide operated pharmaceutical companies, high-tech companies and FMCG companies. As a Director of Finance & Administration, I'm responsible for ensuring smooth operations of all Financial & Administrative activities related to these entities and Associations. Managing 10 people of whom 6 are involving Finance areas such as accounts receivable, accounts payable, treasury, expenses, etc. and other 4 team members are involving administrative works and IT generalist. Have a key role in strategic decision making as a part of management team and business partner w/ board of partners

I was Head of Finance & Operations for local governmental institutions and Financial Controller & Compliance Steward in Company's organization structure. I was reporting to Regional Finance Director based in Netherlands (Both HQ of Animal Health & Region was in Netherlands) I was a member of local management team and acting as Business Partner w/ General Manager As a Business Partner, my major responsibility is to ensure the most efficient allocation of the Company’s resources and P&L management. In order to do achieve this, I was advising and challenging business units through providing periodic business and financial information to keep them stay focused on and achieve the Company objectives. I had an active role in strategic decision making process w/in management team. In order to achieve this I was in touch with field force employees, customers, closely monitoring market trends, price developments, product margins, expense deviations and operating contribution of the Company. As a Financial Controller, I was leading the team to ensure reporting and planning requirements were implemented in the most efficient and compliant way. As a Compliance Steward, my main duty was to develop and maintain efficient processes compliant w/SOX in a non regulated Animal Health market in Turkey. I was leading not only Finance Team also Operations Team including Sales Administrations, Purchasing, Logistics & IT I had shared tasks with HR department (including payroll, sales force bonus transactions, recruitment process, talent development, defining training needs and allocating resources, etc.) I was also actively organizing & presenting some in house training sessions to employees I was leading the office and process integration project between Animal Health & Human Health organizations between 2013-2014 and created synergy between two organizations and made sound savings with the project

My title w/in the Company organization scheme is Lead Accountant (due to the scale of the Company), however I was the first contact for all financial and administrative operations. Therefore I was acting as Finance Manager/Director and Business Partner w/ General Manager. I was reporting to Finance Manager of Sales & Marketing Entity and directing 2 finance people responsible from local accounting transactions including payroll of blue collar employees. As it's a recently established entity my main duty was to establish ERP & cost accounting systems, implementing global ERP (Scala), reporting & budgeting processes compliant with JCI policies which derived from USGAAP. I was the main contact for the Regional Reporting & Budgeting / Forecasting processes (EMEA Region was located in Dubai) As it's a SEC quoted company, I was the only person who established and implemented monthly, quarterly and annually reporting with respect to JCI policies which were derived from USGAAP, besides I was preparing and controlling annual operating plan, periodic forecasts and cash flow projections I was closely monitoring cost of production on project basis and working with project engineers, providing financial information & presentations to General Manager in order to manage factory P&L in the most efficient way I was responsible for review of statutory records and tax returns (VAT, Turnover Tax, Sales/Use Tax, etc), due to exportation of manufactured goods there were complex tax issues and I was the main contact for both tax auditors and tax authorities I was the first contact for internal/external audit teams I had active role and first contact for monthly reporting of Best Business Practices in manufacturing I developed 6 Sigma Project, green belt level, to improve Trade Working Capital through reducing inventory on hand w/ and engineer through changing a manufacturing process.

I joined KPMG Turkey team as an assistant auditor and was promoted w/ high performance degrees every year until I left the Company as Assistant Manager in 2008. In years, (from assistant level to assistant manager level), I was assigned and led different audit & assurance projects w/in a wide range of industries & companies. Due to working approach in Turkey, Audit Companies prefer to assign their employees both in multi-tasking way and spontaneously multiple projects in different business lines instead of let them specialize and gain expertise in one specific business area. Therefore, I participated / managed multiple audit and assurance projects of the Companies operates in retail, manufacturing, services or insurance sectors. My major projects were for auditing Turkish entities of well known Global Companies in FMCG, Pharmaceuticals, Construction, Market Chains segments, etc. These projects were mostly related to auditing and/or assuring the Company financials and/or operations in compliant w/ USGAAP, SOX, IFRS. Therefore, I gained sound experience on these GAAPs and standards or internal controls procedures according to the scope of the project. From managerial perspective, I managed Project teams w/ 2-10 members changed with respect to the scope of the Project. It was a real on the job training area for balancing relationship between client-audit partners-audit team. I developed myself a lot while I was appreciated especially for good relationship management by my managers/partners.

I joined Grant Thornton Turkey team as an assistant auditor worked for 1 year. I assisted audit team members in the projects that I was assigned to. Main projects that I was assigned were the audit & assurance of Turkish Holding Companies, Turkish Hospital groups and construction companies I gained experience about local regulations and IFRS in these projects