ALI CAN OYMAK
Malmö
Summary
With a strong background in Economics from one of Turkey's top 5 universities, I have extensive experience in Business Navigation, Financial Analyses and risk&compliance. Over 6 years, I have honed my skills in risk and compliance. Additionally, I excelled as a Finance and Operations Manager at IKEA Turkey for 3 years and as a Business Navigation Analyst at INGKA Group in Sweden for 4 years. Currently, I leverage my expertise as a Business Partner for Retail in Group Business Risk and Compliance.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Retail Business Partner (BR&C)
Ingka Services AB
08.2024 - Current
- Develop, maintain and implement Business Risk & Compliance policies, guidelines and frameworks to maximize business value in Group Retail
- Lead and conduct compliance verification activities, responsible for overall risk assessment in retail environment.
- Monitor the performance, effectiveness and adherence to INGKA Business Risk & Compliance frameworks and steering documents, as well as external regulations and legislations.
- Lead and inspire a risk and compliance performance mind-set, raise risk awareness and promote a risk culture and thereby supporting growth and maximization of business value
- Managed strategic partnership initiatives to drive measurable outcomes and deeper relationships with cross-functional teams.
Business Navigation Analyst
IKEA Retail Services AB
06.2020 - 07.2024
- As Global Business Steering-Retail Operations team we are the main Business Steering stakeholder for Growth and Marketing team and as a Business Navigation Analyst in the team I am mainly responsible for;
- Preparing and communicating Gross Profit and Profit&Loss analyses for both country level and total INGKA performance and follow up year to date performance, forecasting and submission details on monthly level
- Preparing and communicating the Gross Margin analyses for the main lines of Gross Profit table with weekly reports and sharing within the Growth and Marketing team with guidance
- Following up IKEA Food performance and providing potential analyses for both sales and Gross Margin levels for the IKEA Food Management team as a main stakeholder
- Providing sales scenario analyses on HFA/HFB and sharing the insights with the commercial team
- Analyzing the performance of total INGKA Retail and providing insights to the INGKA Retail Management team
- Provided reporting for forecast analysis and ad-hoc reporting in support of decision-making.
- Contribute to the development of tools which are being used within INGKA for a better understanding of KPI's such as Power BI apps.
Store Finance and Operations Manager
IKEA Turkey
08.2017 - 05.2020
- Prepare and follow up financial reports for daily, weekly and monthly periods
- Set up the monthly business follow up meetings with commercial team and make them see the overall performance of business
- Running the operational processes of store, finding solutions for both customer and co-worker needs
- Implementing the audit processes for each department for a efficient sales system and secured financial growth
- Preparing the annual budget and following up P&L reports each month
- As an active member of store management team, I support the store operations for reaching the budgeted sales and OPEX goals
Country Internal Audit Group Leader
IKEA Turkey
10.2015 - 07.2017
- Being an active stakeholder for all departments in the Service Office and preparing risk assessment for each case when needed
- Sharing the risk assessment results with Country Management with insights
- Running financial and operational audit processes for each store and Service Office and preparing the overall risk assessment after each audit
- Help stores to prepare internal audit system and follow up the system for further needs
- Controlling the goods and services agreements with both the purchasing department and third party suppliers
- Prepare and follow up the whole insurance system for the country
- Controlling IKEA Casy system which includes the quality alarms of products set by Inter IKEA Systems in Sweden
Inspector
Denizbank
07.2012 - 09.2015
- Company Overview: owned by Russian Siber Bank
- In Branch Audit department we were responsible for routine audits, inspections and fraud investigations for more then 1.000 branches
- Follow up the internal control risk assessments which were prepared before the routine audits
- Run the fraud investigations on both financial and operational fraud activities
- Support the Head Quarters Audit team for different department audits such as Credit Allocations and Private Banking and prepare risk assessments for further insights
- Provide an overall view for Management for each Branch which includes all the financial status
- Owned by Russian Siber Bank
Internal Auditor
Acibadem Health Group
04.2011 - 06.2012
- Audited variety of internal documents, procedures and reports using standard protocols
- Coordinated efforts between Internal Audit department and other areas within the organization when needed
- Created audit workpapers documenting the scope, objectives, methodology used, tests performed, results obtained, observations noted, and any other relevant information related to the audit process
Education
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) - Economics
Hacettepe University
07.2010
Skills
- Business Navigation
- Financial Analysis
- Risk and Compliance
- Internal Audit
- Financial Management
- Financial Reporting
- Business Analysis
- Business Strategy
- Business Steering
- Microsoft Power BI
- Microsoft Office
- Operations management
Timeline
Retail Business Partner (BR&C)
Ingka Services AB
08.2024 - Current
Business Navigation Analyst
IKEA Retail Services AB
06.2020 - 07.2024
Store Finance and Operations Manager
IKEA Turkey
08.2017 - 05.2020
Country Internal Audit Group Leader
IKEA Turkey
10.2015 - 07.2017
Inspector
Denizbank
07.2012 - 09.2015
Internal Auditor
Acibadem Health Group
04.2011 - 06.2012
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) - Economics
Hacettepe University
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