Finance Lead Turkiye

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Job Description

ACCOUNTABILITIES

·         Lead the local end-to-end finance agenda for the market, in collaboration with the Cluster Finance team & GCC, including planning, performance support, local finance coordination, and statutory interface activities.

·         Act as the primary local finance contact for the country team, local leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders.

·         Build and own local plans, forecasts, and financial commentary that reflect business ambition, execution realities, and market-specific assumptions.

·         Ensure that forecasts are realistic, transparent, and grounded in market dynamics, business execution, productivity expectations, and commercial assumptions.

·         Act as a senior financial partner to local country stakeholders and challenge the business constructively on ambition, phasing, productivity, risks, and execution realism.

·         Coordinate with GCC/shared services and cluster controllership to ensure local reporting, close, reconciliations, and controls are completed accurately and on time.

·         Review and validate local close outputs, balance sheet positions, assumptions, and commentary before submission into cluster or IBU governance processes.

·         Ensure that local business conditions, regulatory requirements, tax/statutory expectations, and stakeholder considerations are appropriately reflected in finance outputs.

·         Support local compliance, audit readiness, statutory reporting, and authority-facing requirements in partnership with the relevant cluster or regional controller.

·         Serve as the local finance authority on market-specific finance issues, escalating complex risks, control concerns, and business exceptions appropriately and in a timely manner.

·         Help ensure that centralized finance support colleagues have the information, decisions, and local context they need to execute effectively.

·         Drive simplification, clarity, and strong operating discipline while preserving local accountability and judgment.

·         Contribute to improvement of local-to-cluster ways of working, including use of digital, analytics, and AI-enabled finance tools.

. Lead local transfer pricing execution and governance, ensuring compliance with global policies and local regulatory requirements.

. Monitor intercompany transactions and support transfer pricing documentation, reviews and audits.

. Drive cash-flow planning and liquidity management through proactive forecasting and working-capital optimization.

. Identify cash-flow risks and opportunities and recommend appropriate actions to protect financial performance and liquidity.

 

 

EDUCATION, BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS: 

Education and Experience

·         Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related discipline.

·         Professional finance or accounting qualification preferred.

·         15+ years of finance experience across planning, reporting, control, business partnering, or local market finance support.

·         Experience supporting legal entities, country leadership teams, or market-level stakeholders preferred.

·         Strong working knowledge of local statutory, regulatory, or local GAAP requirements preferred.

·         Advanced experience with enterprise planning tools, Power BI or equivalent reporting and analytics platforms preferred, plus strong curiosity & willingness to upskill within AI field

·         Pharmaceutical, healthcare, or similarly regulated industry experience preferred.

Skills and Capabilities

·         Broad finance leadership

·         Planning and forecasting

·         Financial reporting and close review

·         Controls coordination and statutory awareness

·         Local stakeholder partnership

·         Independent judgment and prioritization

·         Strong communication

·         High ownership and accountability

Locations

Istanbul, Turkey

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time