Elif Senem Gudu

• Managed budget preparation and follow-up processes for Operations Team, facilitating financial oversight and accountability.
• Performed monthly financial reporting for Operations Team, ensuring accurate tracking of financial performance.
• Transformed budgeting, financial reporting structure of operations teams during International and UK Operations teams merger.
• Facilitated communication between Budget Holders and Operations Team, ensuring effective collaboration.
• Conducted month-end and year-end accounting processes of the Operations team.

Reason for Leave: Left position to achieve better work-life balance.

• Aided payment and customer service processes to improve client satisfaction.
• Supported daily operations of Cambridge mobility services to enhance service delivery.

Reason of Leave: Starting a full-time job

• Managed monthly cash transfers for the followinghumanitarian cash assistance programmes with donors; Collective Kindness, Emergency Social Safety, Emergency Social Safety Net, Conditional Cash Transfer for Education, In Camp Food Assistance. Vocational Course Incentive Programmes.
• Executed fraud abnormality controls through reconciliation processes and financial reporting to donors for humanitarian cash assistance projects,ensuring transparency and accountability.
• Resolved cases related to FSP (Financial Service Provider) received through call centre, field, and other channels, enhancing service quality and beneficiary satisfaction.
• Tracked fraud and abnormalities in cases transmitted through call centre, field, and other communication channels, mitigating risks and safeguarding project integrity.
• Conducted follow-up on compliance, assurance, and field audit activities with donors.
• Conducted follow-up on work processes between transfer management and reconciliation work streams with TRC and donors.

Reason of leave: Family relocation to UK

• Coordinated and managed different budget teams across various group companies to enhance collaboration and streamline processes.
• Consolidated budgets of group firms across diverse sectors, ensuring alignment with organisational financial objectives. (Tepe Infrastructure, Tepe Security, etc.)
• Presentation to and follow up of approval of group company budgets by the executive committee.
• Reported and tracked budget and financial figures to provide accurate insights for decision-making including executive financial reporting and analysis.
• Design and automation of a new reporting and budget structure through implementation of SAP in pilot company of the Bilkent group through FI, CO, MM, SD modules.

Reason of Leave: Left position for improved work-

life balance

• Managed consolidation of cash flow of IT projects by monitoring and analysing inflows and outflows of funds to maintain liquidity.
• Conducted follow-ups on payments and invoices of projects to expedite cash flow and improve collection timelines.
• Oversaw financial control of projects to ensure budget adherence and resource allocation.
• Completed financial reporting for projects to maintain accountability to management.

Reason for leave: Bankruptcy of the company

• Responsible of budgeting; short and long-term financial forecasts
• Monitored and controlled sales costs, contributing to optimisation of profitability and identification of expense reduction opportunities.
• Reviewed and approved budget requests for payments, ensuring adherence to financial guidelines and supporting fiscal responsibility.
• Financial control of the accounting department
• Control of accounting records at the Month-end and year-end closing
• Conducted internal year-end audit of inventory of spare parts.
• Financial reporting to the Executive Committee of Toyota Turkey Sales and Advertising Company.
• Financial reporting of Toyota Turkey Sales and Advertising Company in legal and IFRS formats to Sabancı Group.
• Communicated with foreign partners TMME (Toyota Motor Europe) and ALJ (Abdul Latif Jameel Company) to ensure alignment on financial reporting and analysis of budget versus actual figures for Toyota Turkey Sales and Advertising Company.
• Delegate of Accounting and Finance department in Kaizen committee.
• Member of social committee in Toyota.

Reason for leave: Relocation to Ankara, Turkey

• Consolidated budgets and tracked budgets across multiple airport stations through financial reports to ensure alignment with financial objectives.
• Prepared financial reports in compliance with statutory requirements in Turkish Capital Markets Boards formats.
• Adaptation of SAP(BW), SEM modules to Celebi budget and financial reporting structure.

Reason of leave: Long commute affecting work-life balance.

• Consolidated budgets across multiple group firms, enhancing clarity in financial reporting.
• Presentation of budgets to the executive committee.
• Track of budget through preparation ofmonthly financial reports.
• Cash-flow planning and management including accounts receivables and payables.
• Monitoring daily financial transactions, safeguarding accurate financial management.
• Reviewed and tracked credit agreements with banks, ensuring sustained financial stability.
• Daily payment and follow up of daily financial operations of the company.

Reason for leave: Bankruptcy of the company