Bio

Aylin has more than 20 years of experience serving major corporations in the finance function and trading operations. She helps them to achieve excellence and to identify performance improvement opportunities across their value chain. Working in Europe and the US, she has led complex business transformation programs enabled by technology for Fortune 500 firms in the oil and gas, chemical, technology, telecommunications, and consumer products industries. With digital technologies compounding ongoing disruption such as energy transition and geopolitical shifts, her key focus is on helping clients position for the future by amplifying human performance with new technologies and an ecosystem way of working. How might we create an Amazon-like buyer experience in supply chain? How might we use data and insights to create hyper-relevant consumer experiences? What would it take to build a connected, AI-driven and touchless Finance organization? These are the big questions she is tackling. Aylin is also a financial reporting and analytics expert. She has presented at numerous global conferences on the topic and is a featured presenter at the SAP Financials, Reporting and Analytics, and Business Process Management conferences. This followed the 2008 publication of her award-winning book, ''Financial Reporting with SAP'' (second edition in 2011), ''Introducing Financial Reporting in SAP S/4HANA'' (October 2019), and her recent book ''Financial Reporting and Analytics with SAP S/4HANA (March 2021)'' Aylin attended the executive MBA program at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, focusing on Leadership, Business Strategy, Finance, Marketing, Data and Analytics.