Highlights:

Skills:economist, manager, finanial specialist

Financial Controller 06/2021 - current
IONIC STONE, Denizli, N/A Turkey
Industry: Manufacturing/Exporting
I have been the finance and managerial director at Ionic Stone, where I lead the financial team, manage cash flow, prepare financial reports, fulfill administrative duties, and secured a World Bank loan for a solar PV project. My tenure at the company allowed me to closely follow the repercussions of monetary and fiscal policies on the real sector, providing valuable insights into investor and business responses to different policy measures.
•Led the financial team of a mid-cap, export-oriented manufacturing company where the team followed the cash flow of the company, prepared accurate financial reports and monthly statements for accounts receivable, and regularly informed the senior management along with carrying out the relationships with the banks •Designed and implemented projects to increase the profitability of the company by doing cost accounting analysis and managed to increase the total revenues by 47 percent and profitability by 26 percent in two years •Led an innovative initiative enabling the company to be granted a World Bank loan to implement a solar PV project •Fulfilled the company's administrative and financial management responsibilities •Improved the company’s payroll data entry and processing for more than 80 employees to comply with predetermined company guidelines--
CONSULTANT 07/2016 - 06/2021
CENTRAL BANK OF TURKEY (UNPAID LEAVE), ANKARA, N/A Turkey
Industry: CONSULTANCY
I prepared reports for international organizations and investors on topics including the macroeconomic outlook of Turkey, B2B online sales strategies, global indebtedness, and negotiations on Itaipu project revenues.
•Organized primary and secondary research to understand industry, market, and company trends for international investors •Prepared reports and conducted research for international organizations including IMF, World Bank, and think tanks on subjects including the macroeconomic outlook of countries, b2b online strategies, the indebtedness of the world economy, and macroeconomic impacts of the Itaipu treaty--
DIRECTR/ECONOMIST 08/2010 - 07/2016
CENTRAL BANK OF TURKEY, ANKARA, N/A Turkey
Industry: PUBLIC SERVICE
As an economist in the G20 group, I participated in numerous international meetings. Later, as the Acting Director, I managed the Bank’s relations with international organizations. I also led a team of 35 specialists in preparing internal and external reports on the global economy, regularly briefing the Monetary Policy Committee. As an Economist, I contributed to various academic research and policy work.
•Conducted broad-based economic research, authored articles, and reported to the monetary policy committee about the developments in the Turkish economy and global financial markets •Translated economic evidence-based findings into comprehensible narratives to communicate policy development; built macro forecasting models for economic and financial variables to set a base for monetary policy instruments, and provided technical support to increase policy impact through high-level economic and public policy advice •Conducted high-level academic research that guides the central bank or the Bank’s policies and analyzed their impacts on macroeconomic variables •Built a full-fledged dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model to test the impacts of alternative shocks on business cycles along with macro-financial variables •Managed the Bank’s relationship with international organizations including G20, BIS, IMF, WB, and other central banks •Led a strong team of economists as the head of the Bank’s G20 task force •Represented the Bank in the Framework for Strong, Sustainable, and Balanced Working Group, International Monetary System Working Group, and the Global Liquidity Working Group of G20 and contributed to all reports presented in the G20 Leaders’ Summits •Monitored, analyzed, and prepared presentations on global macroeconomic developments to brief the Monetary Policy Committee.--

BILKENT UNIVERSITY 09/1998 - 05/2002
ANKARA, N/A, Turkey
Degree: Associate's Degree
Major:ECONOMICS
Bilkent University is the top university in economics. I was ranked 112th out of 1.5 million students to get full scholarship.

Zubeyir Kilinc-CV